Ace Magazines Painted Covers, 1950-1951. Beyond its comics and pulps, Ace became best known ad most succesful as a paperback publisher, with the legendary genre imprint Ace Books.

There’s no reason a cartoon cover can’t depict the true variety of the romance genre, but as it currently stands, there’s a homogeny that feels unrepresentative of what they’re selling.

This style helped authors reach beyond the core romance readership, drawing in “people that may have been a little intimidated by, let’s say, a photograph of a shirtless man, or like, really ...

Why do romance covers all look like this now? Models embracing in “the clinch” are long gone, replaced by the vector couple. April 30, 2025. ... a publishing industry magazine. ...

By the late 1980s, essentially every cover of the magazine featured a clinch from an upcoming book. Owner Kathryn Falk went all-in on covers, cover models, and made Fabio into a niche celebrity.

A t the height of his modeling career in the ’80s, Fabio Lanzoni, better known simply as Fabio, says he was shooting up to 10 romance book covers a day. With his long, blonde hair flowing, his ...

Get your first look at the cover for Maria J. Morillo's debut romance novel, The Ex-perimento, and get a sneak peek excerpt ...

Complete Love Magazine V27#3 (Ace, 1952) cover by Alice Kirkpatrick. About Kirkpatrick, fellow artist Lou Cameron has been quoted as saying, "Alice Kirkpatrick was one of the finest romance ...

Floribama Shore’s Gus Smyrnios has a secret: he moonlights as a romance novel model — see the covers and read Us Weekly’s exclusive interview ...

It's officially Giselerama season as Gisele Bündchen graces the cover of a magazine for the first time in years! The 41-year-old Brazilian bombshell lends her eye-catching looks for the latest ...

These covers speak to the rom-com audience’s yearning for a simpler, less tech-mediated time, when meet-cutes felt possible, said Julie Schrader, associate creative director for romance at ...