This is of such badness, it may even surpass Micah.

[freyalorelei.livejournal.com]

So, the cover art for Strange Candy is up.

............

Good GOD it's ugly. Who chose that sickly bile green? (And is the cover model...blonde? *squints* Why yes, it appears she is. Hello, new Mary Sue!)

And gee, thanks for including previously published stories, too. Because we totally need the opening chapter of Incubus Dreams in a third book. And that's not at all a giant middle finger to all the people who bought the supernatural anthologies strictly for Laurell's stories. (Not that I'm one of them, but I feel their pain.)

ETA: As if that's not enough, according to the page on amazon.com it's a mere 272 pages--less than Micah--and retails for $25 in hardcover. (There's also a discussion entry by our very own Darla, whose profile is little more than a boot-licking paeon to her beloved mistress. "My favorite author is Laurell K. Hamilton. I am Laurell Hamilton's assistant." *HEADDESK*)

Comments

[alex-lebeau.livejournal.com]

....dear gods. Well, this will be an easy $23 savings.

I admit to buying "Cravings" for the sole Laurell story (mostly because I hoped she couldn't be too ridiculously sexual in a short; wow, was I wrong), then being pissed as hell at finding it to be merely the first chapter of "Incubus." Obviously not making that mistake again.

Though I still pride myself on at least having the older paperbacks with the illustrated covers and not the pointless photos of naked skin and strategic lighting.

[freyalorelei.livejournal.com]

I read online that the "short story" Cravings was just a huge rip-off, and avoided it. And Laurell's eensy contribution in Bite isn't enough to get me to pay for a whole book.

I have the first four AB books with the old-style covers, but the rest are newer. 'Tis a shame...from the looks of them they're much prettier than mine!

[tooimpurenangel.livejournal.com]

i HATE the new covers.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

In my part of the globe, we get the choice of the UK covers (which used to be the Anita Does Action Pose Gallery, but is now an OMFGCLOSEUP half of a face that might be Anita with a background that has something vaguely to do with the story, each book a different colour) as well as the US covers with the Erotic Bodypart Gallery.

That said, I'm proud to have the original run with the pulpy horror novel art. I wouldn't trade it in for the world.