Many of the teen book cover models were quite young, with lots of makeup to make them appear old enough to be representative of the age of the romantic heroine. Courtney Cox on The Last Word Courtney Cox on Secret of the Dark
I’ve never found a copy so the photo is from Cliquey Pizza 2 blog. Courtney was also on the cover of Windswept A Mystery Romance The Secret Of The Dark by Barbara Steiner. The modelling for this cover would have been around the same time as the music video appearance. I kinda think she would have been better used on the cover of Sweet Dreams #97 Dancing In The Dark, given that she was ‘’discovered’’ as the girl who danced onstage with Bruce Springsteen in the video for his Dancing In The Dark song. The first cover I realised had a famous person as the cover model is Sweet Dreams #84 The Last Word by Susan Blake. Or were there just not enough teen boy models around at the time? Maybe they all wanted to be rock stars like Duran Duran or Bon Jovi.
Surely romance means there should be more than one person on the cover. Many of the teen romance series only featured girls on the covers, which has sort of puzzled me. Peacherino at Cliquey Pizza 2 is a gem, her knowledge of 80s kids and teen books and other stuff is enormous. And some I found on a wonderful blog that is mostly about books from the 1980s, with a focus on the teen romance genre. Some I found out about recently when researching for this article. Some I have worked out who the now famous or almost famous person is, usually a woman who would have been a teen at the time of doing the shoots as a model. Over the last few years of selling teen romance books on ebay and on my website, Sweet Hearts Romance Books, I have spotted a few faces that sort of looked familiar.
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