The Chick Lit Cover Formula

  I have been thinking about “chick lit” books and their covers.  Don’t get me wrong, I love to read a good chick lit book but I wonder why all the book covers seem to follow a similar pattern: Come on authors, make your book stand out from the crowd!  Fly the Juno flag!

Case number one:  The high heels

Case number Two:  The cartoon woman

Case number Three: The Headless Woman

 

Case number Four:  The Martini

I found this hilarious post from Salon that showed what would happen if our favorite literary classics got a Chick Lit makeover

The Smart One by Ellen Meister

DON’T FORGET TO ENTER ALL OF MY GIVEAWAYS LISTED IN THE LEFT HAND SIDE. ONLY TWO MORE DAYS TO ENTER TO WIN TAN LINES AND DRIVING SIDEWAYS!   MY NEWEST ONE IS FOR SWEET LIFE BY MIA KING AND A BIG BASKET OF CHOCOLATE FROM HAWAII! 

 

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Pub. Date: August 2008

384 pp

www.ellenmeister.com

WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT

Bev is the Smart One, who finally leaves her artistic ambitions in chalk dust (and her humor-impaired husband in the arms—and legs—of his nubile protégée) to become a schoolteacher. Clare is the Pretty One, who married well and seems to be living a designer version of the suburban dream. Joey is the Wild One, struggling to stay clean and sober now that she’s used up her fifteen minutes of fame as a one-hit-wonder rock star.

They love each other but mix like oil, water, and hundred-proof gin . . . a combination that threatens to combust over family tensions, suspected infidelities, a devastating accident, a stunning confession, and the sudden reappearance of their handsome, now all-grown-up former neighbor, Kenny Waxman, who’s back in town making his mark as a TV comedy writer.

It seems they’ll never understand where their differences begin and their own destructive tendencies end. Then it happens: the sisters discover a decades-old body stuffed inside an industrial drum and begin a bold, heartbreaking, and sometimes hilarious journey that will either bring them together . . . or tear them apart for good.

THEMES IN THIS BOOK

 

 

CLICK ON THE BOOK COVER OF THE SMART ONE TO READ MY REVIEW AND SEE WHAT GRADE I GAVE IT.  THIS POST IS PART OF THE BOOK TOUR FOR THE BLOG STOP BOOK TOURS.  THANKS SO MUCH TO THEM AND TO ELLEN FOR SENDING ME THIS BOOK! 

Live A Little by Kim Green

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Pub. Date: August 2008

384pp

http://kim-green.blogspot.com/

WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT

What do you do if you have two bratty teenage kids who don’t give you the time of day?
-What do you do if your husband is more interested in his remote than you?
-What do you do if you’re forever being compared to your perfect sister–who just happened to marry your perfect boyfriend?
-And what do you do if you’re told you have stage 4 breast cancer?
Well, if you’re Raquel Rose, you tell your family your diagnosis, and then you watch them go from treating you like dirt to treating you like a queen. Then you go on to raise unprecedented amounts of money for breast cancer research. You fulfill your early artistic promise. And you find you love this new life of yours, no matter how fleeting it may be.

So when the doctor calls to tell her that there was a mistake and she’s actually perfectly healthy, instead of sharing her good news, Raquel can’t relinquish the sudden attention and love from her family. Soon Raquel’s lie by omission snowballs and the wise-cracking 40-something becomes a sought-after figure on her sister’s popular talk show, elevating her “illness” to local rock star status. Her mistaken diagnosis becomes the fated opportunity to fix the glaring problems in her life–her stalled career as an artist, her lackluster marriage, her unappreciative children, and her highly dysfunctional family.
And while she wants to tell the truth, she’s afraid to give it all up–would her family go back to taking her for granted? Would the donors rescind their checks if they think she was a fraud? In the end, it’s up to Raquel to find her real “cure”: an ending that befits the second chance she’s been granted.

THEMES IN THIS BOOK

CLICK ON THE BOOK COVER OF LIVE A LITTLE TO READ MY REVIEW AND SEE WHAT GRADE I GAVE IT!

Divorcing Dwayne by J.L. Miles

Click on the cover to read my review of Divorcing Dwayne.   The author calls it Southern Grit Lit!

Carpool Diem

Click on the cover to read my review and grade for Carpool Diem

Lovehampton by Sherri Rifkin

Check out the “video” preview of the book Lovehampton by Sherri Rifkin then click on the book to read my review and see what grade I gave it.  I’m just curious, do the video book trailers make you want to read the book even more? Are they helpful or just boring?  Alot of authors are now marketing their books this way.

Names my Sisters Call Me by Megan Crane

Click on the book to read my review and visit the authors page. The cartoon is a picture someone made for her of the three sister’s from the book!

 

Is Mrs. Perfect so perfect after all?

To find out the Mrs. Perfect review click on the book cover.  Make sure you stop by next week. I will have information about how to win my arc copies of Mrs Perfect and Broken Angel.