I asked myself this at the grocery store the other day when I couldn’t find a new book to buy. No, I wasn’t looking specifically for clinch covers but it did suddenly strike me that there weren’t any anywhere in evidence. Granted the romance section of the bookshelf at Kroger isn’t that big but the only truly lurid covers I saw were in the thriller/crime section. (Yes, I know lurid is not the right word, but I can’t think of another better one. So deal with it. ;p)
Have the covers really gotten that much better? Or does Kroger’s distributor simply not pass on the really “fun” covers. Hehehe, how’s that for being contrary? 😀
Jane & Kristie: Heh, yeah, Avon still does them. And I’m pretty sure Zebra does some too. In fact, I got an Avon one today. At Kroger. There were also more than the one I picked up.
I’ll post about it tomorrow but what I’m trying to figure out in the meantime is whether I’m that blind or the publishing cycles just miss each other that much. Do I really miss them if they’re not an author I’m looking for? Hmm.
Yea – I’d say it’s the store. There are less and less of them – but they do still exist *sigh*
I think that avon still does a clinch type cover and dorcester, maybe???