Cliche sayings and stories are cliches for a reason - because people seem to love the familiar. In cinema, we see variations of the same storyline all the time, but a vast majority still enjoy the predictability, so we keep coming back. Well, before there were movies, there were books, and people who love literature know writers have been telling variations of the same story and romance tropes since they first put pen to paper.
Writers' HQ, an organization that runs writing retreats and online writing courses for bada*s writers with no time or money, released an image series of Accurately Titled Novels, - that are all too familiar.
The hilarious series of fake books perfectly parodies famous novels from murder mysteries to vampire-romances to period pieces. These covers take a witty stab at some of our favorite literary tropes so often used by professional writers. The idea originated from the mind of Writers HQ co-founder, Sarah Lewis, 'I made the original Disaffected Working Mother With Awful Husband cover and sent it to Jo to take the piss out of my own bad writing as I was utterly sick of myself,' she explained to Bored Panda, 'It also happened at the same time we had both read a lot of stories about sad men and people drowning, so we made a couple more of these book names.'
