Fans of Christian Romance discussion

I with you on the Gingham Brides and Bethlehem, New Hampshire. I've got to wait till Feb for my third book in the Above the Line series by Karen Kingsbury. She does have Shades of Blue coming out next month!!! I'm excited for that. And I want to get The Carousel PainterI've read some of her books and this one looks good. I'm sure more will come to mind later.

I liked High Country Bride and will need to look for Jill's new one.

lol...I'm addicted to the dry creek series too. I always buy the new one when it comes out. But, then again Janet knows this because apparently her book giveaways are waaay to late because I've usually bought her book. :D You'll like the Poetry Texas one. It's definitely up your alley.

yep, i wrote review on if you want to see it. I hate when the back of the book doesn't do an accurate description. It either bums me out cause they played it up or they don't give enough info.

I'm going to pop back in here in defense of the people who write the back cover copy because I had one of my earlier books where the back cover copy was slightly off -- the problam (or challenge) is that the back cover copy might be written before the author has more than a couple chapters of the book written. sometimes the story doesn't happen as originally planned (and sometimes those changes are necessary). I am in awe of a back cover copy writer who can give enough of the plot to interest readers, but not so much that it's a problem if things change in writing the book. By the way, I'm not sure if that kind of a timeline is true for all publishers, but it is for Harlequin. They have their production process down and they do covers much in advance of the rest of the book (different presses I think).

Oh, no offense taken to anything -- I was as surprised as you are! The reason they do the covers so early has to do with the production part of things -- the art department and marketing are doing their own thing. As I recall hearing once in a harlequin meeting, the covers are done on different presses and have a whole different timeline. I have (once or twice) had to do an Art Fact Sheet for a book when I didn't know what in the world was going to happen. It made me real nervous, but usually the people who write the back cover copy (sometimes it's an editor, sometimes a freelancer that's hired) are generally very good at what they do (given what they sometimes have to work with). A writer can write back cover copy and the editors could decide to use it (generally, though, the consensus of opinions from editors seems to be that writers are so close to the story they aren't always the best at writing the back cover copy). I wish I knew more about the in's and out's of the book production process -- it's a learning experience. As to why the blonde becomes a brunette -- that's just someone not paying attention somewhere in the art department (I believe) -- the most notorious cover I've heard of is where the heroine had three arms (someone had apparently made a change and didn't erase the original arm.