i've yet to find woman/woman images or man/man images They're out there, but they're not really mainstream. There is a market for gay/lesbian romance novels, though. ;-) I've been reading romance novels (mostly historicals, but I read contemporaries now and then) for a very long time, as in, more than 25 years now. I read the "bodice rippers" and the pirate ones and all the other trends that these things go through... The cover art has changed considerably for some publishers, though, which is good. They used to all have "nursing mother" covers (so-called because the woman always had huge breasts about to burst out of her bodice), and then, somewhere, some genius though, "Wait! These are read by a largely female audience, what if we put a SEXY GUY on the cover?!" and suddenly Fabio had a career... ;-) I am planning on entering this contest. I'm working on the characters now, in fact. ;-) bonni

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