Book Compulsions
So do you have any sort of compulsive feelings towards your books? Do the covers have to match--from all those dreaded cover changes publishers pull mid-series, beginning of the series (like book 2 out of 5?!) or worse, the let's change the covers at THE FINAL BOOK! WHO DOES THAT?!
Do the formats need to match? All hardcover, all paperback, or secondary (or primary!) ebook? What about signatures? If you got book 1 signed...do you then want the rest of the trilogy (we'll say it's a trilogy) signed?
For me, I can pretty much subscribed to all of the above! Lol. I loathe a cover change, like why must we do it? I get it later, like I am seeing books being reprinted now because hey that fantasy romance series from the early 2000s would work really well in the "romantasy" genre. Let's reprint them with new covers! Sure, why not! But then you get the let's change the covers of this trilogy. The FINAL book is coming out, let's take away the fancy dress of the heroine and put her in pants. Like, what even? Seriously? You want to do this NOW? I'm looking at you The Winner's Kiss!
I will admit, ones series I am PROUD, oh so PROUD to have totally mismatching covers to is The Mediator series by Jenny Carroll/Meg Cabot as I discovered the series when she was still using a penname so as to not mislead her contemporary Princess Diaries readers into thinking this series would be something similar. Which as a seasoned reader now, I totally get. Back then, confused the heck out of me when I saw a new hardcover book with Meg Cabot--that Princess Diaries writer--and a black cover with the title Haunted...tale of a mediator, and I was like ooh, like Jenny Carroll's series? Reading the blurb though taught me real quick about pennames though! Lol. Yeah, that series is totally mishmashed with covers and I am proud to have those on my shelves! It felt fitting the "adult" installment was different though because it was a new age level, so to speak. So yeah, that mismatch will never bother me.
Now the rest...hmm yeah. I will always wonder, what would the covers had looked like if the publisher hadn't of changed it. So many I loved and adored and mourned the loss of. Like the Study Chronicles OG trilogy, then Wolfsbane by Andrea Cremer. Loved that first look, second look was okay, but nowhere near as superior to the original ones. Sigh...
Then of course you have signed copies! If you know me, you might know I LOVE attending author signings! I love getting my books signed. I love having a signed set! And yes, I do feel a compulsory need to have the series completely signed if I start it out that way! Like I have a trilogy that just finished (I need to read the last two books still) but I have the first two books signed. I am itching to see the author again, but alas, she didn't come back a third time. Honestly I am always shocked when an author comes back a second time but am also THRILLED!
Book format, I usually just buy whatever comes out first! So I have had series that started out in paperback and then turned hardcover and will later reprint those early books in hardcover but I usually just stick with my paperbacks. Then oddly I have had series that started with hardcover releases and then got switched to trade paperbacks...not sure what caused that changed, but my wallet was happy at least. But yeah, 2/3 books of the trilogy were hardcovers and then the last book goes trade. Weird. But that's what the series looks like on my shelf! I'm usually proud of those odd format "shapes" so to speak since it shows how long I was with the series!
What about you? I know I kind of rambled on that one! Do you have any book compulsions? Are there things you have to have when it comes to your books? They may not always be within our control, but are there nuances like that that you have? Am I even making sense right now...as I don't really know either! Lol. These are just my odd little quirks!
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