Scootch OVER, Frank! I want a turn.

Frank, you amaze me. I cannot fathom how you are able to keep up with all the breaking news in the book biz. And provide pithy commentary. You get my brain buzzing about reading and writing. Now I have something to mull over in staff meetings. I appear to be paying attention to the agenda but secretly I’m pondering what will Hollywood do next to torture that poor Jane Austen?

You go great with morning coffee. I’m more of an afternoon candy break kind of blogger. That’s the time for biblio-silliness such as this, Judge a Book by Its Cover blog. Which prompted howls of laughter as my coworkers and I all counted the hands on a romance cover’s heroine. Giggles and snorts soon gave way to an insightful discussion of book covers, what they are trying to tell readers, what they tell librarians, and why doesn’t Harlan Coben just earflick the person who designs his covers?

And then there are covers that induce the universal statement, “Hmmmmm?” Such as this one, The Psychic Sasquatch, which set off all the readers’ advisors in my department on a spirited debate over genre-blending. You might need a cup of coffee and two pieces of Ghiradelli Dark for this one.

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