Dania Denise Latest Tearsheet - Second Book Cover

I haven't had a chance to blog about my experience shooting for romance novel covers but I will be sure to recount that most interesting work experience soon. :-)

Till then, I am happy to say I can share my latest tearsheet, which happens to also be the second book cover I've gotten in my modeling career. The male model is Jimmy Thomas who is the new Fabio (for those of you not old enough to know Fabio, he was THE heartthrob of women everywhere by being one of the most popular male models on romance novel covers back in the 1980s and 1990s).

Jimmy Thomas is currently one of the most popular male models in the romance novel genre and his images have appeared on thousands of covers (you read that right--thousands...that's thanks to the huge boom with e-books and other digital formats).

Here's the cover we both appear on...I believe it should be on the market soon if it hasn't already been published:

Me and Jimmy shot many different sets for our shoot and the cool thing about that is those images will be used just like stock photography--any author has the ability to purchase the limited rights to use the photos of their choice for their book covers.

That means this won't be the only image I could potentially be on. Jimmy told me that soon as any of our other images gets published, he'll send me the cover like he did with this one. Fingers crossed that I get some with my face in it! LOL

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