
My wife and her friend were browsing the stacks at the local chain bookstore when they came across this fine work of high literature... I realize that there is a detailed science behind romance novel cover design. In a genre based on disposability and formula, marketing is everything and the ideal state exists between the comfortable familiarity and enticing difference. Call it the "impulse purchase zone." The intent behind the cover to Midnight Treats is fairly obvious -- the promise of softcore titillation. The couple posed [...]