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Posted at 03:01PM Jan 14, 2009 by Anna in General | Comments[76]
Hey Ladies,
I’m so glad to hear that some of you out there are excited about the arrival of Envy, which is only two weeks away now. It’s so interesting to be getting feedback—now that the series is somewhat more advanced—on how the cover models compare to the characters you’ve been picturing in your heads. The girl who graces the dust jacket of the third book is beyond beautiful, but the Diana I imagine when I am writing is a little shorter and plumper, certainly darker haired—although the curls falling out of their arrangement is absolutely correct. And the expression she wears is dead on; it’s knowing, mischievous, a little careless, and capable of a level of passion that might border on dangerous.
I think another reason readers really have opinions about this cover is that Diana is the character they most relate to. She’s the bookish one of the main cast, and also the searcher; she’s the one character who is of this luxurious world but is incapable of fitting in to it. I am often asked which of these girls I am most like, and though there is no easy answer, there is certainly a lot of Diana in me—the seeking, the slightly dreamy tendencies, the ability to fall in love easily. But then, I am a little like Elizabeth, too (I was born guilty, just like her), and Penelope (awfully snarky at times), and Henry (there is some terribly foppish buffoonery in my past), and especially Lina (I stumbled a lot on the stubborn notion that my ordinary life could be made beautiful, too). I once dated a guy who stared at me for a long moment and then said, “You look like a different woman from every angle.” He was talking about the peculiar architecture of my face, but he was right in more ways than one. And we’re all a little like that, aren’t we?
I’d love to hear more of your thoughts on the cover of Envy, and which of the Luxe girls you relate to most, and whether or not you, like me, have a little benign multiple personality disorder.





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