What accounts for this trend? A slew of recently-released books written by and about women feature on their covers images of women turning aside and away from us. Four examples:
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One of the original designs for my novel had a portrait of a woman with a little girl, and everyone thought it was a memoir, or was a photo of me and my mother. I guess you want the audience to picture the characters for themselves. It is interesting that so many novels have the turned away face, though.
Actually, people still ask if that’s a picture of the back of my head and tell me it looks like me; wonder if these other authors hear the same.
[…] aside and away, showing not their faces but their backs to the potential reader. See examples here. Another strange phenomenon has now appeared: book covers or jackets with a worn, […]