Considering the book’s about over-the-hill fifty-something gals who’ve been BFFs since they were five, I’m hoping that innuendo truly is unintentional. (Like, maybe the lake where they all met and became friends got its name from being tonsil-shaped? Maybe they all met in the infirmary of a summer camp down on a lake that they gave this derisive nickname when they ended up among a bunch of campers there who suffered from a mysterious outbreak of tonsillitis one year?)
Had a look at the author’s other covers, and while they’re maybe not all quite up to snuff, this looks to be the only one displaying an immediately obvious (i.e. just from looking at the thumbnail) incompetence in its design. Stranger yet, this cover is for a later electronic reissue of a now out-of-print paperback novel originally published more than a decade ago, the cover of which… well, as I say, maybe not quite up to snuff, but it’s much better designed than its replacement:
Considering the book’s about over-the-hill fifty-something gals who’ve been BFFs since they were five, I’m hoping that innuendo truly is unintentional. (Like, maybe the lake where they all met and became friends got its name from being tonsil-shaped? Maybe they all met in the infirmary of a summer camp down on a lake that they gave this derisive nickname when they ended up among a bunch of campers there who suffered from a mysterious outbreak of tonsillitis one year?)
Had a look at the author’s other covers, and while they’re maybe not all quite up to snuff, this looks to be the only one displaying an immediately obvious (i.e. just from looking at the thumbnail) incompetence in its design. Stranger yet, this cover is for a later electronic reissue of a now out-of-print paperback novel originally published more than a decade ago, the cover of which… well, as I say, maybe not quite up to snuff, but it’s much better designed than its replacement:
The Tonsil Lake on the old cover stretches from the shore all the way over the horizon.
The Tonsil Lake on the new cover? I could throw a rock across it.
Ah, good — the swelling in the tonsils has subsided.