A book cover from the past: 20+ years later...
very telling and they aged me well
Over 20 years ago I was on the cover of a romance novel - they wanted an older model. Lucky for me (since I liked to work a lot) the way they shot covers in those days is they would hire someone that sort of fits the specifications for the original photograph and then an artist would draw in the correct details.
I was on the cover of this Kismet Romance Book Cover in the early 90's. It was in a photographers studio with a couple of desk chairs and 2 models. I was in my early 20's and I remember it was a very hot humid summer in Chicago and we were dressed in summer clothes. As you can see - they aged us, drew in the windows, first class seats to look like a plane and made our clothes look nicer than they were at the time.
Who would have known - this shoot would be somewhat foreshadowing. Back then I had just started traveling from my house in Chicago to my apartment in New York every other weekend for work. And today I make at least a dozen international trips each year all over the world to shoot documentaries, travel shows and speak at conferences. I'm about to reach a new milestone on American Airlines with 2 million miles flown and Executive Platinum status… So this cover may have been more accurate than I originally thought and they aged me well. The author, Lacey Dancer (pen name) and this book ended up being one of a set of 4 and with an adventure of its own: The original publisher folded before it's release so it had difficulty finding a new home, partly because the heroine was over 40, which was rare in the romance novel game then and now. Dancer finally created her own publishing company, Clear Ice Publishing, to release the novel in mass market paperback. To this today "13 Days of Luck" and other romance novels by Lacey Dancer can be found on Amazon and other sites.
I love a happy ending.
LUCKY IN LOVE
Although her fans eagerly awaited her next best-selling novel, author Pippa Weldon was suffering from a nasty case of writer's block. The only cure was a trip; a journey to a new place usually changed her perspective and brought her characters back to life. Before the week's end, Pippa had booked a Caribbean cruise with an unusual theme: the travel agent called it a psychic cruise. Pippa was sure it was just the thing to break the spell of boredom that had taken the edge from her writing.
She found inspiration the minute she encountered fellow passenger Joshua Luck. Not only was he a handsome, forty-eight-year-old millionaire, Joshua was a MAN in capital letters, a forceful, decisive individual. Although Pippa longed to learn some of the more intimate details of Joshua Luck, she wasn't interested in a shipboard romance. Pippa was searching for a passion that would last a lifetime; she had no use for 13 days of Joshua Luck.
Tall, imposing Joshua had come on the cruise to make amends with his estranged brother. After years spent barreling down the narrow path of success, Joshua realized that his glitzy world was wearing thin. He'd never expected to fall for a woman like Pippa, a silver-haired vixen with an impetuous sense of style. In her sky-blue eyes Joshua spied her soul, so clear, so bright, so infinite. She was all wrong for him, definitely not his type. So why did he find her utterly irresistible?
KISMET #59.
