So my search continues to try to find an erotic BDSM romance that used a pearl necklace on the cover before Slow Surrender, but it’s looking more and more like the designer at Hachette might have been a very early adopter of female accoutrements/jewelry to “the look.” (See my previous picspam post of trends in erotic romance covers ever since 50 Shades of Grey. Who knew that book title was going to literally describe the monotone and desaturated look that would come to dominate? Heh heh, I said “dominate.”)
I mentioned in the previous post there were SO MANY books with a red ribbon. That’s expanded to blue and purple now, too:
And I mentioned lots of covers have flowers on them as the single object of focus. Here’s a compilation of recent flower covers:
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