A Covergirl Special Report: Headless Wonders

An URGENT PLEA from Covergirl (Bookburger's cover jacket commentator) to Harper Collins:

Dear HC:

I love your list of upcoming releases from Harper Teen--big faves of the burgerfolk, like Maureen Johnson and Meg Cabot, are on there--but please, please, you MUST restrain the MAD CROPPER who's treating your cover models so brutally! The Cropper (perhaps kin to the Lopper from that old Seinfeld episode) must be stopped!  Revoke his Photoshop license NOW, before he crops again!

Seriously, I totally agree with the smart reader quoted in a previous B-burger post who complained about the trend toward perfect and perfectly anonymous headless bods, which have been proliferating on covers across the YA world since the huge success of the Gossip Girls series....

Faces are FAB. Eyes are EXCELLENT. So lissenup, publishing people. Decapitation is so 2006. Heads are the new black. Let's make  '07 the year we stop the crop.

yrs,
Covergirl

PS...I saw these covers in some pr material--and these titles are all coming up in spring or summer--so maybe these designs are just placeholders? if so, you, Mad Cropper, still have time to repent and mend your ways before these books hit the shelves...