WHAT THE HELLISH HELL IS THIS HELL???
Tag - false flagging
Beyond the fact that this cover has nothing to do with the book, you’ve got to love the leftover stock image watermarks.
Go ahead and explain how this targets the desired niche audience. I’ll wait.
And then look at the description…
Honey Mine unfolds as both excavation and romp, an adventure story that ushers readers into a lesbian writer’s coming of age through disorienting, unsparing, and exhilarating encounters with sex, gender, and distinctly American realities of race and class. From childhood in Chicago’s South Side to youth in the lesbian underground, Roy’s politics find joyful and transgressive expression in the liberatory potential of subculture. Find here, in these new, uncollected and out-of-print fictions by a master of New Narrative, a record of survival and thriving under conditions of danger.
…wait, what? (h/t RK)
Frightful Fiends: Two Novellas of Desolate Horror
“Does this desolate horror make my butt look big?”
Here’s the kicker: It looks like this is a Regency romance. No, seriously. Here’s the original mass-market cover:
(h/t J. Berry)
“In one word, I want the cover to be anachronistic.”