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| This girl is scared enough to run barefoot over rocks and weeds. |
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| Her bodice should be white with moonlight, but it's stained with coffee. |
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| This one has been drugged, so she's not moving too fast. |
1. Girl in gown (evening or night) fleeing through grass in fear
2. Looming hilltop house with mansard roofed tower
3. Light on in one window as watchful yellow eye
Assignment: Answer the following multiple choice question.
What is Little Miss Nobody running away from?
A) Definition as Somebody (Mistress, Heiress, Lady, or Bride) by an oppressive patriarchy
3. Light on in one window as watchful yellow eye
Assignment: Answer the following multiple choice question.
What is Little Miss Nobody running away from?
A) Definition as Somebody (Mistress, Heiress, Lady, or Bride) by an oppressive patriarchy
B) Housework
C) The love of a good man
D) All of the above
Go to tumblr: Gothic Romance for more examples of this sort of cover art.
C) The love of a good man
D) All of the above
Go to tumblr: Gothic Romance for more examples of this sort of cover art.
7 comments:
You can design your own book cover just by taking one from each, you can mix or match, choose one from each:
1)WOMAN ON THE COVER
a)Woman is alone;
b)Woman is being pusued by a man;
c)Woman is being stalking by a shadowy 'being';
2)WOMAN (or Man & Woman, or Woman & Being)ON THE COVER IS/ARE:
a)Standing/Running on the moors;
b)Standing/Running away from a Victorian Mansion (or Castle);
C) Standing/Running by the sea;
3) THE SKY IS:
a)Pitch dark;
b)Overcast;
c)Ominous
4) THE WOMAN'S FACE IS
a)Detached, as if in a dreamlike state;
b)Forlorn;
c)Forsaken
And in some decorative fonts and there you have it, a cover.
Maybe we should make a little DIY kit - you know, like a paint by number. Lily, what do you think?
I think Cool Cookie is quite, quite Brilliant! He is way beyond mere Ph.D. at this point. (All my covers will have shadowy "beings.") A Paint by Numbers Gothic Romance Paperback kit is Genius! What fun to name all the colors: Murk, Gloom, Frantic, etc. Do you have any contacts in China? Also, I would like to see a coffee table book of original cover art.
How could we create a Gothic Romance generator? You could pick out the name of the heroine, the hero, the thing or person locked in the part of the house or estate that dared not be named, choose why it is under lock and key, the name of the Vicar (because there is always a Vicar), and the name of teh faithful retainer who may, or may not be "mad" as well. Then you select the ending: the house burns to the ground, she escapes never to look back but never quite sure that she is free of the specftor,whatever or whomever dies and she marries the man as the skys clear, the temperature warms and the birds sing for the curse has been lifted.
Sort of a Mad Libs for Gothic Romances, only with pictures: lots of moors i.e. grass and various scary houses, because the house is always one of the characters, but that's not till Lesson 7. I already use the covers as embroidery patterns (just blow up and trace) so I'm sure with modern technology there's a way to create this generator.
I was always bemused by the covers that featured a a very dramatic cover filled with foboding elements, but the woman was painted (or drawn) in a negligee (or other such bed clothing) and a simple look upon her faced. If you are out in a grassy meadow on a night filled with all manner of haunted images, why would you have the look of a blonde trying to correct something on her word processor with "Wite-Out"?
Oh, and woman always has long, flowing hair, somewhat tangled at ends.
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