And now for a public service announcement: The following cover and title is the UK edition of my book, Warm Fuzzies. Same book, same projects…different cover, different title. If you already own one of them, you’re good to go.
I have gotten email from people asking about my “second book”. While it is true, I am working on a second book, this is not it. (more details about that coming soon!)
Do you know how it feels when your kids ask you a question and you think you know the answer? Then when you start explaining you realize maybe you really don’t have a good understanding of it? That’s how I feel about this second cover/title. I think it’s confusing, which is why I am bringing it up.
Amazon UK offers both and in fact suggests that you buy the two together! If you are so inclined to own the same book with two different covers, by all means do so. Just consider yourself informed.
Apparently, this is a common practice in publishing, to offer a book in a different market with a different look. However, living in the cyberspace of blog land, we are all free to “visit” each other in other countries, sometimes not even being aware that we’ve crossed the border. So was this really necessary? Beats me…
Anywho, I’m not going to pretend I have a full understanding of it. From now on, when someone asks me why, I’ll say, “That’s just the way it is.”
I think the original cover and title was better. This one is a little more risque. If someone told me they just finished Felt So Good. I would have thought they were reading a romance novel.
I’m still on the hunt for wool sweaters. I’m hoping that when the Spring yard sale season starts that everyone will be purging their winter closets. It may also be that I live in the South and wool sweaters aren’t as popular.
Who knows? I needs me some wool!
eww….Warm Fuzzies was a MUCH better title. Besides being risque-ish, this one could also be thought of as grammatically incorrect. Just another reason I’m glad to be living in the US!!
Hey! I’m just SO HAPPY to hear that you are already working on a SECOND BOOK!
eew, yeah, I didn’t even think of the “risque” factor. (thanks a lot you guys!)What it should be is the order of what you do in the book:
Felt. Sew. Good!
We suffer from the American/British title/cover change thing a lot. My hubby is British and I can’t tell you how many times we’ve purchased the same book over here in the US without realizing it, only to start reading and discover we already have it upstairs. Drives me batty!
I rather like the new cover with its more muted colours and a few more project examples. But then I’m British – perhaps they know their market!
I agree with Dawn, I like the original cover and title better. It was way more cheerful and just showed off your work better. However, it is still great news that you are having it published in the UK. What a great job your book is doing! I can’t wait to see what happens with the second book!
What a dowdy cover we have in the UK. I much prefer the other one!
That’s kinda strange. Huh…it certainly doesn’t capture the cute-ness factor in your book. Go figure.
I would have said, for what its worth, that the phrase ‘warm fuzzies’ is very Amercian. Although, as with most American phrases, we do have it/get it in the UK, so its not beyond us, and I also agree that ‘felt so good’ has different connotations.
I think the UK cover is upsettingly dull compared to the US one – I’m like, totally down with the American one for sure…. 😉
I wonder in fact if, as an American artist, the US cover more thoroughly conveys your aesthetic output and the British version illustrates neither you nor us?!
…Confusing, or should it be confuzzing?
Anyhoo, loving your work beyond belief!!!!
This is as confusing as when magazines offer two different covershots each month – and you end up buying the magazine twice because you see a new cover and grab it!!!
(Or, is it just me who does that?!)
A rather strange title. I like Warm Fuzzies much better and the cover is much more appealing.
BTW are you leading a double life? Here is your new look alike:
http://www.americanidol.com/contestants/season7/brooke_white/
She even shares the same last name!
I wandered onto your blog today, it’s lovely!
confusing, yes.
adorable? Yes!
Strange as i’ve bought your book here in UK with original cover. The original cover is my preferred option.
i saw the ‘other’ version of the book at the craft, hobby & stitch international trade fair i went to at the weekend (here, in the uk) and i much prefer the original. the ‘felt so good’ cover image looks very dated in comparison to warm fuzzies.
by the way, i flicked through it, love the hand puppets and the patchwork pinafore dress : )
Hey Betz! I totally stole your idea from your cake plate tutorial and did some hurricane candle holders. I would love for you to check it out!
http://moderncharm.blogspot.com
I have the book with the original cover, its much nicer. Its a tad immoral of Amazon to suggest you buy both, they obviously know. I think I’ll do a review on Amazon and try and get it across thats its the same book.
I live in the UK and brought your warm fuzzies book via Amazon (which I absolutely love and my cupcake stash is growing daily!) I went to a jumble sale and brought a great patterned lambs wool sweater for 30p and shrunk it down and made 2 cupcakes and 2 pairs of mittens from it, you cannot beat that for great value for money!! Sorry, losing my train of thought.. the American cover definitely appeals to me a lot more than the felt so good cover as I think it distracts from the cuteness and quirkiness of your fab projects.
Andrea,
No worries, the publisher has now informed me that Amazon UK will be removing the US version, Warm Fuzzies, from their site and will only be offering Felt so Good.
Betz
Wow, how strange. I really like the original title and cover way better. Did they change all instances of cozy to cosy inside? hehe.
I’m also having difficulty finding wool sweaters. Our local Goodwill store has thousands of sweaters (literally!) and I’ve found very few that are wool and when I do find one they’re very ugly colors. Perhaps I should bribe the person that’s processing them in the system to pull all the wool ones for me. That way I wouldn’t spend 2 hours searching.
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Hi Suzanne,
That surprises me that you have trouble finding wool sweaters…from your profile you live in Illinois, right? I have found that frequent visits does the trick. You can also ask if/when they get new shipments. I find the season matters, too. For example in Maryland I found very little in August, more in October, less now in February.
Best of luck and happy hunting!
Betz
Hi Betz
I spoke with the publisher at the UK trade show about this issue last week and told them what I thought of the fact that they’d changed the title and cover photos !! He was a little taken aback !! The Warm Fuzzies version is soooooo much better. But hey ho – I still ordered a whole bunch of them to sell through my own site ;o) Can’t wait until they arrive !! Sarah x
I think I much prefer the Warm and Fuzzies cover better. This is nice, but I like how the other one is more colorful. Perhaps the English prefer softer colors!
Hello Betz. I’ve just ordered ‘Warm Fuzzies’ from Amazon. I’m British, living in England, don’t find muted colours better or worse, but ‘the powers that be’ must have their reason for making such changes. In the same way that British books are altered for the American market.
Anyway. I’m thrilled to have managed to get my paws on a copy as it was intended to be. :O) Have a great weekend.
I think there might be some publisher’s secret, and they sure have their reasons to publish the same book with different covers in different countries.
We have the same thing here in Russia. All craft books which were translated from English have disgusting covers, comparing to the original ones. I have never seen the book published in 2 countries with the same cover and title.
There’s something we don’t know, and this is very interesting. I’ll try to make a research about that! Because before reading your post I thought that only books for Russia don’t have original covers 🙂