Double Take
Wendy knows my fascination - one could even say obsession without being accused of embellishment - with book covers. She pointed out these now-you-see-it/now-you-see-it-again covers:

The hearts. The titles. The overall look. The concept. These are a bit too similar for comfort. A possible coincidence but - yowza - these are close.











February 9th, 2006 at 11:07 am
Plus, Cruise’s first hardcover had candy hearts, too. Before the Warren book.
February 9th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
I can see the reoccurence of the candy hearts, after all both books deal with the subject of love, albeit in vastly different genres, and candy hearts are associated with love and romance. But when the titles are practically the same as well??? That just smacks of a rip-off.
February 9th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
I have to say out of curiosity I looked up the Mary D. Esselman book, and her other two books also have the titles spelled out in candy hearts. Coincidentally I also found Whitney Gaskell’s book True Love and Other Lies(candy hearts), and of course as mentioned J. Crusie’s Tell Me Lies(candy hearts again). Heck, it’s almost and underground movement.*g*
February 10th, 2006 at 9:48 am
Well, there was this one that I showed on my blog awhile back:
http://bloghappy.blogspot.com/2005/12/its-naked-truth.html
They even used the same cartoon there, not just a theme.
February 10th, 2006 at 9:56 am
I’m currently fascinated by these covers (though nothing beats the Naked Truth fiasco!)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0373250754/sr=8-3/qid=1139583232/ref=pd_bbs_3/102-1903827-7709711?%5Fencoding=UTF8
and
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/074349959X/qid=1139583273/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-1903827-7709711?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
and also this set:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0689870752/qid=1139583302/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-1903827-7709711?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
and
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451216458/qid=1139583359/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-1903827-7709711?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
February 10th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
Forgot about Crusie. Didn’t even know about the others Samantha mentioned.
Nicole - That is incredible! Thanks for posting. Not sure how I missed that one.