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Hayley Comments: This is what the back-cover says, “Warning: Graphic sex between a human woman and an alien male who is anatomically different from human men!”
Published 2008
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October 14th, 2010 at 9:55 am
“So then after all that and we finally make… love… I eat all your internal organs and wear your skin as a sign of my power. Tonight is going to be so romantic.”
October 14th, 2010 at 10:53 am
He certainly is anatomically different. He appears to have had spherical shoulder-pads implanted under his skin.
Does it seriously say that on the back cover? Golly, talk about PWP…
October 14th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Not saying that he looks very real. But she looks like a mannequin.
October 14th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Wow, I think this may be the first example of obvious CG we’ve seen on this site. I hope it’s not a new trend in cover art.
October 14th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Issed? Stark Issed?
October 14th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Is this self-published? I found a website saying it is “available” from Samhain Publishing (cool name btw!) but I am not sure if they are the ones who actually published it. On a related note, the cover quality–interms of resolution and color saturation–looks much better on the website. Might this be at least partly because the cover here is a photograph of the printed version?
http://www.lanettecurington.com/starkissed.html
October 14th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Tom, sadly it is. So is the “I just installed Photoshop!” school of cover design. And as an illustrator, this makes me sad.
October 14th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Who needs a talented artist when Poser and Photoshop Elements are so cheap?
October 14th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
This is almost as hot as Louis Gossett Jr. and Randy Quaid having a baby in Enemy Mine (1985).
October 15th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
…found the cover artist: Trace Edward Zaber (most likely a pseudonym)
her homepage of truly horrific covers: http://www.bythunder.org/ThunderArt/thunderart.html
December 13th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
It’s a Final Fantasy girl mating with a random Star Trek extra.
December 13th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Thanks, SeriesFive, to the links to TEZ’s other ‘artwork’. (Eyes of Betrayal was my fav.)
February 4th, 2011 at 5:00 am
Nope, no eating of internal organs before, during, or after mating. 😉 And nope, no PWP. There’s a plot, it’s very romantic, and there are a couple of love scenes but they don’t really drive the story. Just a little extra oomph. LOL
Starkissed (star-kissed, not stark-issed) is not self-published. It is published by Samhain Publishing. The cover artist is Christine Clavel. Since the hero is an alien, I believe she did use Poser. Real aliens don’t like to model… 😛 (She did an excellent job with the hero. Yes, the woman doesn’t look quite lifelike, but Poser has its limitations.)
Trace Edward Zaber (his real name, as far as I know) was the cover artist for a previous edition when it was with Amber Quill Press, another e-pub. Not sure how he got credited with the current cover.
The “Warning” on the back cover is something Samhain does, kind of like the Disclaimers at the end of Xena episodes. Most of their books have them.
Starkissed is available in the Kindle store at Amazon. It’s a full-length novel at 80k and reasonably priced at $4.24. Here’s the link if you’d like to check it out.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VYX836
Sorry I’m so late responding to this, but I just now ran across it.
Thanks!
Lanette Curington
author of Starkissed
February 4th, 2011 at 5:23 am
Sorry, I meant to add the Amazon UK link, too. £3.26
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000VYX836
Lanette
February 4th, 2011 at 9:49 am
Hey Lannette! Thanks for commenting.
It good to hear there was no eating of internal organs… or.. is it 😉
The warning is still amazing! The temptation of writing something so strange to get an epic warning is nearly irresistible now!
February 4th, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Oh, go ahead. Give in to the dark side. You know you want to…
I wrote Starkissed about 12 years ago. The book and the warning are quite tame compared to what’s out there today.
Lanette
April 15th, 2011 at 4:00 am
The first edition of “StarKist” featured Charlie the Tuna on the cover, sales were slow.
December 9th, 2014 at 8:41 pm
When can we expect the sequel, “Starhugged”?
December 9th, 2014 at 8:42 pm
Or the conclusion to the inevitable trilogy, “Star-Third-Based”?
October 21st, 2016 at 1:00 pm
Upper right corner: sperm?
October 21st, 2016 at 1:01 pm
Starkers, more like.
October 21st, 2016 at 1:07 pm
Iguana tap it. Perfect.
‘And come on, 50% in and no sex scene??? Not even an “I couldn’t help myself, I had to touch him while he was sleeping, but he wasn’t really sleeping” scene?’
http://soukovs.review/ebook/2651779-starkissed.html
October 21st, 2016 at 1:15 pm
Addendum: Joy Division is definitely the WRONG music to be playing while taking in this cover.
October 21st, 2016 at 2:07 pm
Starkissed. Isn’t that a brand of tuna?
Sorry Charlie, the alien isn’t looking for a woman with good taste …
October 21st, 2016 at 3:35 pm
@Bibliomancer—I thought “Star Kissed” was the new tell-all book about Donald Trump’s reign as a beauty pageant owner. Maybe that’s “Star Groped.”
October 21st, 2016 at 3:38 pm
Skinless man is trying to find the ring in her back that you pull to make her talk.
October 21st, 2016 at 6:58 pm
“Hey, that’s not my ring.”
“That’s ok, that’s not my hand.”
September 15th, 2023 at 9:40 pm
Meanwhile, elsewhere.
Am I the only one thinking, “I can see paradise by the dash board light”?
September 15th, 2023 at 10:22 pm
The Honor Harrington cover we didn’t know we needed.
September 15th, 2023 at 10:48 pm
Bad computer art aside, I really don’t like how close in color the alien and the background are. Also, artists had drawn humanoid aliens by hand for decades before this, and didn’t need Poser.* He looks more real than she does, what with her vacant stare, stiff stance, and overuse of the blur filter.
Speaking of dodgy humanoid aliens, I caught the Star Trek where Kirk fights the Gorn a few days ago on one of the local sub-channels. Also reminded that “Kirk” rhymes with “smirk”.
@fred: So instead of internal organs, he’s already consumed her cat buddy?
*Although, as we see on this site, Poser might have been an improvement for some of them.
September 16th, 2023 at 5:33 am
His interest in human women first bloomed after a shipping error sent him a human Realdoll rather than a Xynthian model.
@GSS ex-noob: I’m working through season 1 of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, which I got from the library. They’ve apparently updated the Gorn: I’m curious to see how they’ve changed their look. The terrible CGI Gorn which showed up Deep Space Nine (or was that voyager?) hopefully will remain deep in the memory hole.
September 16th, 2023 at 7:53 am
@Bruce: Can’t be worse than the first 2, right?
I hadn’t thought of getting it through the library! Will have to check mine. Although I’m feeling a little leery of physical media right now with Covid rates going up and I haven’t gotten the new improved booster again. I did get my flu shot this week.
BTW, the OG Trek that they updated the special effects with… yeah, the old CGI is now fugly compared to the original physical models and paint.
September 17th, 2023 at 12:28 am
@GSS ex-noob:
I haven’t seen the old Star Trek with the “updated” special effects, aside from a couple shots of space ships and photon torpedos, and hope to avoid doing so in the future. Is it that they don’t have the latest covid booster available yet? That seems to be the case here in Albuquerque.
September 17th, 2023 at 11:15 pm
I’ve got a doctor visit tomorrow and will inquire when they might have it for myself and Mr. xn.
They rendered all the spaceships, photon torpedoes, and random planets to be orbited in CGI in 2006. By now, it stands out like a sore thumb. As I said, the old school practical effects look more realistic. I think they did well adding in random background stuff so the scenes on the Planet of Styrofoam Soundstage look a bit less fake.
On the whole, though: meh.
They left the Gorn in all his original cheesiness, though.