I find myself thinking that maybe I ought to try making a book cover. The one's the started this thread, "pedestrian" is maybe the right word. They're missing some little spark that would make the difference. Look at some of the other ebook covers by the same author, and you can see a woman with a sword who seems boring. No, it's not lack of skin exposure, or an absence of potential wardrobe accidents. It's stuff like the general colour of the image. Anyway, does anyone want to take up the challenge? An image suitable for a romance novel, perhaps vaguely historical, the classic "bodice-ripper" sort of thing.