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Covergirl Special Report: Headless Wonders

 

An URGENT PLEA to Harper Collins: I love your list of upcoming releases from Harper Teen--big faves of the burgerfolk, like Maureen Johnson and Meg Cabot, are on there--but please, please, you MUST restrain the MAD CROPPER who's treating your cover models so brutally! The Cropper (perhaps kin to the Lopper from that old Seinfeld episode) must be stopped!  Revoke his Photoshop license NOW, before he crops again!

Seriously, I totally agree with the smart reader quoted in a previous B-burger post who complained about the trend toward perfect and perfectly anonymous headless bods, which have been proliferating on covers across the YA world since the huge success of the Gossip Girls series....

Faces are FAB. Eyes are EXCELLENT. So lissenup, publishing people. Decapitation is so 2006. Heads are the new black. Let's make  '07 the year we stop the crop.

yrs,
Covergirl

PS...I saw these covers in some pr material--and these titles are all coming up in spring or summer--so maybe these designs are just placeholders? if so, you, Mad Cropper, still have time to repent and mend your ways before these books hit the shelves...

get ready for meg-o-mania

wow--back from a steamy 4th with all the trimmings...fireworks...cook-outs....burgers, of course. And we rolled back into bookburger hq to discover another reason to celebrate..it's a mere 20 days until Meg Cabot's YA romantic comedy appears on bookshelves everywhere (and we DO mean everywhere--the 7-Eleven, the CVS, the nail salon, the panda cage at the National Zoo--where the baby panda will be doing readings from it...). It's called How to Be Popular. And while Meg doesn't need OUR help to spread the word, we couldn't let this publishing event pass without a nod from the burger. So here's a look at the cover (as always, click to get a bigger, sharper look):

Nice, right? What you can't see is that there's a glittery foil slipcover thingy on there...but Meg's unsmiling cat Henrietta will show you this, if you're interested...