Hey everybody, just in case you have anything…we are in need of a photo to use on the cover of The Thong Also Rises. For you perves just tuning in, this is a women’s humor book. You can check out our previous two book covers online, Sand in My Bra and Whose Panties Are These.
We’re looking for a horizontal photo that is whacky and goofy, a lot like the one for Sand. It can have a woman in a thong from the back, but it makes more sense if it’s silly, or something funny is going on nearby.
I also had the idea that if we couldn’t get just the right photo, I’d dress up like Karen Blixen in Out of Africa. (Photo #17 comes closest). Imagine me in a vintage safari outfit, a long blazer, white collared shirt…only I’ve forgotten to put my pants on and all you can see are my long bare legs with some kind of safari boots on the bottom. Then, there’s a photoshopped elephant and luggage right next to me like I’m waiting for my ride. (Does anybody think they can stage that photo for cheap?)
Anyway, see what you have on hand…it needs to be as good as the woman on the fish from Burning Man on Sand in My Bra.
Send any subs to jenleo at gmail dot com. My personal email doesn’t have room for big files. Thanks!
Jen-
Would an illustration do… Something along the lines of a thong clad “sun-toon” cresting the horizon over a foreground of lemurs toting travel sticker plastered suitcases whilst reading the Times on a beach, with a mighty cruise ship in the middle distance?
Or are you dead set on the photo thing?
-PM
Hi Peter, Thanks so much for chiming in. Actually we’re dead set on the photo thing. But you are right in thinking of the whole scene.
So far the designers and what people have sent in have only been about a nice ass with a thong. That’s not going to do for a cover. But I guess it hasn’t been an obvious statement.
Right now I’m checking into prices as to what it would cost to stage a shot and photoshop in some hilarity. We’re thinking of me going naked with those censored blurred boxes, a little photoshopping to make my body look better…don’t argue…it’s nowhere near coverworthy…and then also shopping in some travel stuff… It’s just an option right now as we’re verging on desperate and have nothing to work with.
As one person told me, that’s what you get Jen for having a title like The Thong Also Rises. But seriously, the cover can’t be a thong. Look at Sand. It wasn’t about a bra. Think hinting at. Think inuendo.
Thanks, everybody!
ahhh: inuendo! Je vois…
how much more time do you have to work with?
I’m currently in New Zealand (with a camera attached to my hip,) and have already had some ideas for the “shot”. However, one word of advice, always ensure that you have enough juice in your battery when the opportunity presents itself.
Just so you know – even though the bar on actual thong shots eliminates this as a contender – the one that got away was a shot of a young German girl decked out in low rise jeans (whale tail peaking out), leaning over an iron railing by the harbour, at dusk, making googlie eyes at a penguin. It was cute, to say the least.
Ah well… I’m heading out for Fiji, Australia, and Malaysia next…. I’ll keep an eye out.
Kisses,
PETER.
ps – I really adore your site!
Peter, thanks for the compliment! Hey, if you see any more scenes like that and you have your camera battery, by all means take it and get it over to us asap. I don’t know how much time we have to work with, but there’s not much. There are also zero other alternatives until I stage a shot.
So, go for it. jenleo at gmail dot com. But alert me here or at my personal email address if you do send something over to the big inbox.
I am envisioning a picture with a Sun Rising over two hills that look like a Butt. That alludes to the book from which the title was created and the thong without being a just another girl in a g-string.
I say have a photo submission contest in the same vein as the Panties contest. Since you’re not necessarily looking for a picture of a girl in a thong, have readers send in their funniest/wildest travel photo a la the Sand In My Bra cover. Winner makes the cover, plus a free copy of the book, etc. And runners up get the home version and a year’s suppply of Rice-A-Roni and Turtle Wax…
Thanks, Dave. Nice idea, but can’t promise that. We could get a lot of crap, or something our publisher or sales team doesn’t like.
Right now we’re looking into staging our own. But yes, despite there being a million things to do including reading hundreds of stories, we have to keep on the cover shot, too….I appreciate the support!