I love a pretty dress as much as the next gal and if traditional covers are your yum, I am not yucking it. It’s a colorful cacophony of fun and it makes me smile when I see them stacked on a table.ĭon’t get me wrong.
The heroes and heroines aren’t clinging to each other in a feigned passion – they are staring each other down or facing away from one another, helping each other up or pushing one another over. We’ve got flowerpots falling from windows, grooms falling off wedding cakes, tea being spilled on the hero’s toes and a woman pouring a bottle of wine out over a trashed bouquet of roses to name a few. With the rise in popularity of romantic comedies has come an increase in the number of illustrated covers. Illustrated romance book covers are in on the joke and I couldn’t be happier. As Victor Borge once said, “laughter is the closest distance between two people.” In romance especially, humor is a way to connect your characters. It’s a way to convey a significant theme without alienating an audience. I love writing historical “romcoms” because humor is a buffer when a story – or a life – gets too serious. They also have escaped tarantulas, really bad short people jokes, and large men afraid of hedgehogs. As such, my books include all the conventional tropes (my latest, A Perfect Equation, has the enemies-to-lovers trope), they have the requisite declarations of love, and plenty of spicy consensual sex scenes. I mean, I know they’re pallbearers and not dancing girls but. Don’t EVER sit next to me at a funeral unless you’re comfortable with being asked to leave. If you can’t tell, I have a low brow, oftentimes inappropriate sense of humor. I giggle when people slip on the ice and fall, and I used to pee myself laughing at that website where a guy made fun of little kids’ drawings. There is nothing I love more than a well-timed spit take. Her latest novel, A Perfect Equation, is out now. Her series is inspired by her admiration for rule breakers and belief in the power of love to change the world. She likes going for long walks or (very) short runs to nearby sites that figure prominently in the history of civil rights and women’s suffrage. Elizabeth Everett lives in upstate New York with her family.
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