{"id":13239,"date":"2015-08-05T17:34:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T00:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?page_id=13239"},"modified":"2016-12-30T23:12:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T07:12:47","slug":"book-covers-romance-and-erotica","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/book-covers-romance-and-erotica\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Covers &#8211; Romance and Erotica"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Sample Covers<\/h1>\n<h2>Romance and Erotica<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16048 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-CHRISTMAS-FLING-by-Beth-Barany_updated-2016-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-CHRISTMAS-FLING-by-Beth-Barany_updated-2016-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-CHRISTMAS-FLING-by-Beth-Barany_updated-2016-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-CHRISTMAS-FLING-by-Beth-Barany_updated-2016-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-CHRISTMAS-FLING-by-Beth-Barany_updated-2016-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><br \/>\nIn the romance and erotica genre, the legibility of the title is not as important as the image and the emotion conveyed. In my wife&#8217;s book A Christmas Fling, a Magical Tale of Romance and Adventure, I worked to convey a winter love in the San Francisco Bay Area. I made the most prominent aspect of the cover be the couple&#8217;s love for each other. I used frost and Christmas colors to convey the winter, and I set the Golden Gate Bridge as a background to clarify the proper setting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Touchstone-of-Love-by-Beth-Barany-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16054\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Touchstone-of-Love-by-Beth-Barany-2016-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Touchstone-of-Love-by-Beth-Barany-2016-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Touchstone-of-Love-by-Beth-Barany-2016-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Touchstone-of-Love-by-Beth-Barany-2016-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Touchstone-of-Love-by-Beth-Barany-2016-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Accurately portraying the experience was what mattered most in creating the cover for Beth&#8217;s book Touchstone of Love, a Time-Travel Romance. The couple convey the passion, the clock conveys the time-travel aspect, and the cathedral in the background along with their couple&#8217;s dress indicates the time period of the story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Alice_Sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16057\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Alice_Sm-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Alice_Sm-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Alice_Sm.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Liz Adams&#8217;s erotic version of Alice in Wonderland, Alice&#8217;s Sexual Discovery in a Wonderful Land, I put the attention on the couple&#8217;s passion for each other and used aspects of surrealism to convey the imaginative experience the readers would have. The other-worldly background, the curly letters, the purple tones, all helped with portraying the imaginative experience readers could expect to have.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GoldilocksCover03-Sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16059\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GoldilocksCover03-Sm-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GoldilocksCover03-Sm-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/GoldilocksCover03-Sm.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liz Adams&#8217;s erotic version of Goldilocks, Goldie&#8217;s Locks and the Three Men, takes place in contemporary times. Though the title suggests a menage of sorts, Liz wanted me to be sure to clarify with the cover that the story was not a menage story. I kept the image to only one man, and since Liz&#8217;s tale had much to do with locks of hair, I highlighted the hair and placed it in the background of the title.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Red-Riding-Hood9-KDP-Badge-Sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16058\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Red-Riding-Hood9-KDP-Badge-Sm-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Red-Riding-Hood9-KDP-Badge-Sm-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Red-Riding-Hood9-KDP-Badge-Sm.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Liz Adams&#8217;s erotic version of Red Riding Hood, Amy &#8220;Red&#8221; Riding&#8217;s Hood, the story mostly takes place in the woods, so I used that backdrop for the cover. Also, since the hero is a werewolf, I combined the human form with the wolf&#8217;s eyes to portray the danger the heroine must face.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Return to <a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/resources\/book-covers-for-romance-erotica-fantasy-thrillers-mystery-and-non-fiction\/\">Book Covers for Romance, Erotica, Thrillers, Mysteries, and Non-Fiction<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sample Covers Romance and Erotica In the romance and erotica genre, the legibility of the title is not as important as the image and the emotion conveyed. 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