Covers have a purpose: they signal the genre within.
A cartoon cover of two people dressed casually for camping does not--and I *cannot* stress this enough--signal EROTICA to anyone.
Holy jumping WHAT THE HELL, #HarperCollinsUK, WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL--you are setting that book (and its author) up to fail.
@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia @bookstodon Plus there's no pursuit -- they're standing with their backs to each other.
Show one chasing the other and it would already improve somewhat.
@WhiskeyintheJar I didn't even notice the famous peppers until someone else pointed them out!
And YES, the idea that sexuality must be hidden in code to be palatable is offensive, period.
@Jaycee YES
If I understand correctly, the *publisher* tells NetGalley what tags to put in there, and given the range, they asked for "everything that women read" or some such bullshit.
@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia @bookstodon
The vector illo style isn't helping this at all. If you told me this was NA hiking/college romance, with fade to black closed-door intimacy, I'd be more willing to believe it than if you handed this to me and said it's erotica. Oof.
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