For Covers of the Week #9, we’re showing four of Blue favorite romance covers featuring voluptuous heroines in clinch embraces.
Theme: Blue Falcon’s Picks His Favorite Romance Covers
This is a special edition of Sweet Savage Flame’s Covers of the Week! For edition #9’s theme, we asked our dear friend Blue Falcon to choose his favorites.
Surprisingly, there was only one Zebra historical among his selections. As for the others, these were from romances published by Pocket Books as Gallen Historical Romances. The Gallens preceded their Tapestry imprint.
Richard Gallen, a “publishing producer,” oversaw the creation of two historical and two contemporary romance books monthly, which Pocket Books would publish and distribute.
From 1978 to 1982, Pocket Books released 90 romances under the Gallen moniker.
As for Blue Falcon’s cover choices, we can certainly see a common element among them. As a fan of old-school romances, Blue Falcon admires a busty heroine in a clinch.
We totally get where he’s coming from, as we love them too!
The Covers
For the week of June 7 to June 13, 2021, take a look and enjoy Blue Falcon’s favorite covers!
Your Opinion
What do you think of Blue Falcon’s pick for his favorite covers?
Which of our selections do you like the best, and what appeals to you about them?
Do you have suggestions or requests for future Covers of the Week themes you’d like to see on Sweet Savage Flame? Let us know, and we’ll do our best to create a gallery of stunning art!
Please drop a comment, and let’s talk romance.
Thanks, Blue Falcon. I really enjoyed many of the Richard Gallen romances. This imprint from Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books lasted only three years, from 1979 to 1982. But it published four sizable books per month. Its output was about evenly divided between contemporary and historical romances.
At its best, this imprint offered top-notch romance. And often the cover art really sizzed!
I still have several Richard Gallen favorites from back then. I’m looking for others. Many are available for readers at the Online Archive.
BTW, yes, there really was a Richard Gallen. He was the book packager who put this line together.
Correction: It’s Internet Archive, not Online Archive. A super-library for content of all sorts. A great source for the online reading of older books in every category. Here’s a link:
https://archive.org/index.php
Thank you, Mary Anne. I too loved the Richard Gallen books and especially the covers. Finding them again brought back so many memories.
Much credit must also be given to the founder of “Sweet Savage Flame”, a lovely lady named Jacqueline Diaz, who created this space for lovers of old school romance to rediscover old loves and find new ones.