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Jul 29, 2013 05:20PM
slave boy is up twice
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Elizabetta wrote: "slave boy is up twice"I removed the duplicate.
OK, that's ironic.
So far, Wife-beater with gun = 7 occurences
Grey t-shirt guy = 6
Didn't count slave boy.
Slave boy = 7 occurrences (up to 64 books)
Now were at 76 books and wifebeater with gun moves up to 9 occurences.
Grey t shirt = 7
Looks over shoulder guy = 5
Hand in hair guy= 3
Didnt count slave boy or shaggy happy brunette.
Added 2 Slave Boys. Mia Watts' She's Got Balls and Raising Seth by Eden Cole. I don't know the names you have for the other boys. Oh and there are at least 2 or 3 grey shirt boys. :)Super fun list!
Gigi wrote: "Added another Slave Boy. Mia Watts' "She's Got Balls"Super fun list!"
great ads. I think slave boy wins.
We need to name them, because I really think this guy will win: 
I haven't even scratched the surface of my M/M library yet! I love shit like this!
you can name them when you add them. Why don't we call that guy 2 pack with side burns? I can't count that well from my kindle fire.I think shaggy might be up there with slaveboy
Slave boy has been around for hella long days. Like Gigi, I haven't had time to search through all my back-reads but I'd guess he's on many more.This is a great list :)
Angela wrote: "you can name them when you add them. Why don't we call that guy 2 pack with side burns? I can't count that well from my kindle fire.I think shaggy might be up there with slaveboy"
2 pack with side burns it is!
Which one is shaggy happy brunette?
, also in home for the holidays, point of beginning, and I think he's not smiling in several others.There is also intense close quarter guy who really needs a name.
may be a good idea to number & name. For example:#1/gray T-shirt guy = XX
#3/back guy = XX
#4/Slave boy = XX
...etc.
Then peeps will know who's who.
the number changes with the votes. But we could have one master post keeping tally and just keep editing it.I seriously think slave boy has like 4 poses. He totally confuses me.
It confuses me why he's used so much. He's not particularly attractive. To me, anyway.
slave boy has that vulnerable twink look. I prefer zac ephron for such things. Lol. The only one i remotely find attractive here is grey t shirt. The rest are just ugg.
Angela wrote: "the number changes with the votes. But we could have one master post keeping tally and just keep editing it.I seriously think slave boy has like 4 poses. He totally confuses me."
ah, right. damn.
Just added Angel and the Assassin/slave boy
also The Pixie Prince (=Blood Pond= Forever in One Second/ blond guy)
Does someone want to start a forum post so we can keep track? I will if no one is interested, but since this is Angela's list, I want her to decide on how to manage it! Again, super fun!
I think he's plucking his chest hair, he's got tweezers in the other hand.
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If you look at my list, you will see in the notes (under the ratings) that I have named some of the men. The top 3 right now are:Slave Boy, 20
Grey t-shirt, 9
2 pack with side burns, 9
Super fun! I'll keep a list unless someone else picks up the ball!
I have an idea, can you put all the covers on the post, next to eachother? I'd like to see all 9 2 packs together.
Hand in hair guy, 5 occurences;
Angela wrote: "Hand in hair guy, 4 occurences; "nice!
Shaggy happy brunette 10 occurences (2 not shown here)
Also with grey t shirt guy on the third cover. Lol. Its a 2 fer.
These ones are questionable;
SheReadsALot wrote: "hmm...I dubbed -Pensive Dude"I called him intense close quarter guy, but he's already grey t shirt guy. poor.guy, needs to relax, he's obviously getting lots of action.
Gigi wrote: "Does someone want to start a forum post so we can keep track? I will if no one is interested, but since this is Angela's list, I want her to decide on how to manage it! Again, super fun!"
I've no idea how to start a forum post so go for it.how is it different from this? I'm going to compile my little collages a few each day.
Over the shoulder guy, aka soldier mine 10 occurrences.
There are several book covers that I have come across that use the same model as Karen Chance did for her Pritkin short stories. The model is Anders Houmann, and several of his poses have made it onto book covers. Here is a page if his poses:http://www.dreamstime.com/same-model_...
I'd like to see what other books might be out there with the Pritkin model (Anders Houmann). Post them here if you come across one!
Want to see who else is everywhere?The model Paul Marron, recently used as the cover model for some major books:
and also on these covers:
Why are the hetero covers so much nicer?
The grey shirt guy is ridiculously hot!
The curly haired guy from Life Lessons, and Friends or Lovers? Why have I seem him smiling up from freaking picture frames at Target?! Then I saw him again at Wal-Mart. The dude is like everywhere!!
Does anyone else think that this guy is the shaggy haired guy just with some photoshopping done on his hair?
He looks very badly photoshopped, but i think he appears with shaggy guy a few times, but not him.
Kendra wrote: "Does anyone else think that this guy is the shaggy haired guy just with some photoshopping done on his hair? "I don't think that's shaggy haired smiling guy (my Tony from Life Lessons) - close but different.
Tony-guy is everywhere - I've had people report seeing him in tooth-product posters in their dentist's office. Part of the reason is probably that he has a ton of stock photo pictures, many of which are pleasant, attractive, varied expressions, not too posed, and not all naked. Reasonably-priced stock site pictures are a very mixed bag, and hot or even just attractive guys are not a dime a dozen. Hence the reuses. I once tried for fun to see how many covers I could find him on, and gave up after a dozen or so. (But to me he's still Tony :)
Chris at stumbling over chaos does her "Misadventures in Stock Photography" each week of duplicate guys. She told me she has about three pages of "Tony" accumulated for the day she decides to feature him.
Kaje wrote: "Chris at stumbling over chaos does her "Misadventures in Stock Photography" each week of duplicate guys. She told me she has about three pages of "Tony" accumulated for the day she decides to feature him."I do have an awful lot of "Tony"... I just need to find a good name for him!
This list is going to be very, very useful for me. ;)
And here's a link to the Misadventures in Stock Photography, which is on post #170 since it started a few years ago.
LOL! Thanks, Kaje... It's been that kinda weekend.
Awesome, please keep us updated here. I'd love to see over the shoulder guy or slave boy.
I have no idea how many posts of Slave Boy I've done - lots!
Ok, I'll check it out.Is there really is a shortage of free/cheap hot guy stock photos? Then why are the mf covers so much better?
Angela wrote: "...Is there really is a shortage of free/cheap hot guy stock photos? Then why are the mf covers so much better?"That's a really good question.
Probably budget - the sales of het romances are far higher - if you look at GR ratings numbers for top M/M versus het, it's about 10:1 There are other stock sites where the pictures cost far more that M/M pubs won't use because of the cost. Top het authors may get custom photos done. And the artists' time and skill is at least in part a matter of what you can afford. So M/M covers play with the limited selection on the cheap sites while not using more artist time than they can help. Also, there are a lot of het couple pictures available. In M/M if you want a couple together, most of the time you have to photoshop them because the actual two-men-together pictures are very limited.
Kendra wrote: "Does anyone else think that this guy is the shaggy haired guy just with some photoshopping done on his hair? "Funny - I called him SHAGY (Seventies HAir GuY):
http://www.stumblingoverchaos.com/arc...
Lol. I didnt even notice him before. He's sharing the page with our 'shaggy happy guy' here. Two shags. Lol.
