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Old 07-18-2023, 09:15 AM   #1606
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My cat ignores me all day.

The moment I sit down to read, she suddenly comes over to me carrying the brush.
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Old 07-18-2023, 09:51 AM   #1607
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My cat ignores me all day.

The moment I sit down to read, she suddenly comes over to me carrying the brush.
But of course! You are all hers! She can garner all the attention and brushing and wuvving and all that that she deserves. My male MC does the same thing. The moment I leave my office at night and my bum hits the sofa, I'm all his. There for his bidding!

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Old 07-18-2023, 04:33 PM   #1608
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That does not look like a tortoiseshell on the cover.
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Old 07-18-2023, 04:44 PM   #1609
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My cat ignores me all day.

The moment I sit down to read, she suddenly comes over to me carrying the brush.
I wish my youngest was this way. His Majesty always wants to cuddle when I'm cleaning, cooking or in the toilet (he cries heartbreakingly behind the toilet door), never when I'm sitting on the sofa reading.
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Old 07-18-2023, 04:56 PM   #1610
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That does not look like a tortoiseshell on the cover.
Agreed and in this day and age of Midjourney and 90 bajillion cat images on the endless list of stock image sites, there's no excuse for it.

HOWEVER, I would add that the first thing I tell authors and publishers is that the cover does NOT need to match the story or the characters. If the horse is brown, the hose on the cover can be a chestnut or a bay, or even something lighter.

The reader isn't really going to remember. Will some? Sure. If it's Geralt of whatever, they'll remember which Roach he's currently riding. But the cover isn't a guide, isn't a companion book to the book itself--its job is simply clickbait, and the moment that click happens, it's done its job. Tortie or no tortie. It's the book's job to tell the story, not the cover's; it's the cover's job to move the reader into a spot where the book can perform its job.

I mean...if you're a cozy cat mystery person, you'll click on that cover, tortie or not. Right? Right.

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Old 07-18-2023, 07:31 PM   #1611
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Old 07-27-2023, 08:13 PM   #1612
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"This is a sample book created using QuarkXPress"

They couldn't even be bothered to remove this from the book description before publishing it

EDIT: The entire book is just a single HTML page and the formatting is atrocious. I'm... going to refund.
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Old 07-27-2023, 08:21 PM   #1613
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If the horse is brown, the horse on the cover can be a chestnut or a bay, or even something lighter.
What the heck is a "bay" anyway? Does it have three windows?
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Bay horses are named because of the coloring of their coat. Bays are distinctive in the reddish brown color of their coat, and the black points throughout their body.
Ah, yes, I remember San Francisco Bay with its distinctive reddish brown color.

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What the heck is a "bay" anyway? Does it have three windows?

Ah, yes, I remember San Francisco Bay with its distinctive reddish brown color.
There's two base horse coats: Chestnut (recessive, ee) and Black (dominant, Ee or EE). When you get the agouti modifier gene (Aa or AA) onto a black coat, it restricts the black to just the points (mane, tail, and legs) and you get a bay horse.

The word is thought to come from 'Baie,' which is an old french word for 'brown.'

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Thank you. That's more lucid than Google.

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There's two base horse coats...
Then I shouldn't use Krylon matte black?
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Only on rocking or merry-go-round horses.

EDIT: You also shouldn't drink it. Excellent timing, Beaverton!

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Old 07-28-2023, 12:13 AM   #1617
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And why do seagulls fly over the sea?

Because if they flew over the bay, they'd be bagels.
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Because if they flew over the bay, they'd be bagels.
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