Timeless Love Romance Collection Count Down -- Happy Release Day!

​Welcome to the count down
to the release of the
Timeless Love Romance Collection!

Happy Release Day!!!

About the Collection

This 7-novella romance collection will only be available until the first week of July, and then it will be "unpublished" from sell sites. *The ebook edition of the collection will remain on the buyer’s device after the ebook is disbanded. 

And then all of the novellas and short stories in the collection will be published separately in print and ebook! Look up each author for sneak peeks of all the gorgeous covers for these upcoming novellas!

All proceeds from the sale of this collection will be donated to the LiveStrong Foundation.
Enjoy seven romances through the ages in this Timeless Love limited time ebook. An open invitation to fall in love with the writing styles of a few new-to-you multi-published authors of your favorite Christian romance eras.

Give Me Thine Heart 1812 Andrea Boeshaar
Moira loathes the man she is set to marry. But when she meets Samuel Stryker, she soon guesses that he's from the colonies. When she finds a deep secret, Sam must make the decision: kill her or take her with him.

This Freedom Journey 1833 Misty M. Beller
Adrien Lockman left France to finally live life on his own terms, but when he discovers a half-starved and half-frozen woman in the treacherous Canadian mountains, the truth soon becomes clear--the only way they'll survive is together.

The Heart of Home 1865 Stephenia H. McGee
Opal Martin aspires to scrub the remnants of the War Between the States from her tattered life. When a nearly drowned soldier appears and asks if he can die on her porch, she must guard against the sudden revival of her heart's hope for love. Tristan Stuart wants to escape the pain of war. He wakes up at a house that's too much like home, with a woman determined to mend him he may discover a life worth fighting for. To save the last of what Opal holds dear, will he become the man she needs or let the troubled waters carry him away?

Enchanting Nicholette 1893 Dawn Crandall
Young, widowed, and newly out of mourning, Nicholette Everstone is an heiress yearning to be loved. Her parents had arranged for her to marry her loving late husband, but the marriage ended tragically on her wedding day. Returning to Boston after being away, she finds there's someone new to her set of friends and family she can't help but fall for. But when she learns of the danger and sacrifices this man takes on, will her heart be strong enough to keep her fears at bay?

Teach Me To Love 1899 Kari Trumbo
Izzy Lawson has taken her last abuse. When her husband dies, she rushes to Belle Fourche to stay with the only friend she has. The wall she's worked so hard to build crumbles in the arms of a man so different from her husband. Conrad Oleson can't read and it's shamed him for longer than he can remember. As Izzy reveals her painful past, he can't stay away. He'll do about anything, to get closer. Including, teach her how to love.

Façade 1942 Pepper D. Basham
Olivia Rakes has excellent observations skills for facts and details, but stumbles through matters of the heart. When her brother goes missing in German-occupied France, Livy enlists her services with a group of search-and-rescue spies, who not only thrust her toward espionage, but...romance. Agent Christopher Dawson has avoided Livy since she broke his heart. When the search for his best friend brings them together, the heart takes on a mind of its own. In a world where war changes the rules of life and love, can they work together to complete their rescue mission before the enemy catches them?

Bookishly Ever After 2018 Sarah Monzon
It all started with a bet and a book.
Emory Blake is the ultimate bibliophile. She'd take curling up with a novel over a night on the town any day. But then her best friend, Tate Woodby, accuses her of living between the pages of her paperbacks instead of the real world, and he makes a bet that will force her to experience the adventures of her fictional friends...instead of just reading about them. With her face no longer buried in books, Emory must confront the pain of the past. 

GOODREADS | AMAZON

The Authors in the Collection

Andrea Boeshaar

Misty ​Beller

Stephenia H. McGee

Dawn Crandall

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Kari ​Trumbo

Pepper Basham

​Sarah Monzon

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To visit the individual countdown post for each book and author click the links below:

Give Me Thine Heart 1812 Andrea Boeshaar
This Freedom Journey 1833 Misty M. Beller
The Heart of Home 1865 Stephenia H. McGee
Enchanting Nicholette 1893 Dawn Crandall
Teach Me To Love 1899 Kari Trumbo
Façade 1942 Pepper D. Basham
Bookishly Ever After 2018 Sarah Monzon

Guest Post From the Authors

Topic: ​Why are book covers so important?  How did the cover design for your specific story in the Timeless Love Collection come about (process of designing the cover, who designed it, etc.)?

Andrea Boeshaar

​However, I can tell you why book covers are so important in today’s market (more so than before the existence of Amazon.com, and BookBub, etc.).
 
Very simply, the book market has exploded. Readers have many options. What’s more, readers are busy and they’re perusing websites and blogs with single swipes of their fingers. They see a myriad of book covers. The ones that stand out will be those that pique the readers’ interest—without being obnoxious.
 
Characters on the cover should resemble the people in the story—just as a scenic cover should represent the place. I had the covers for the last 3 books I’ve written and I made sure my characters looked like the ones on the front. If the cover characters look cartoonish (and I’ve seen some that do) or if the book cover is less than professional, it’s likely to get passed over regardless of a low price. Personally, I hire a friend who is a professional cover designer and she’s amazing. I send her the photos or characters whom I select and she makes the magic happen.
 
The cover of “Give Me Thine Heart” is a sample of her work. The novella is available for pre-order and will release once the Timeless Love collection is no longer for sale.
 
In short, shoddy covers mean the author didn’t think highly enough of his or her book to get the cover done right. Book covers are representations of what’s inside.  
 
It used to be readers were told not to judge a book by its cover, but that’s no longer the case.

Misty M. Beller

My book covers are one of my favorite parts of the creative process! With most of my books, I have the cover done early, usually as I’m first brainstorming the story. I love to have the heroine on my cover, and I work hard to make sure the woman on the front matches the heroine I’m envisioning for the story. That way I can describe her in the novel the way she looks on the cover. Sometimes I even work in the outfit she’s wearing on the cover!
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This Freedom Journey is a novella in my Heart of the Mountains series, so I wanted the cover to be similar in layout and style to the other books in that series. The setting is winter in the Canadian Rockies, so I knew Mary (the heroine) had to be bundled warmly! Funny story: Mary is mentioned in the other two books, although they’re set later in her life. When I first described her in the other books, I imagined her with amber brown eyes. When I chose the final cover for This Freedom Journey, I had to go back and change the amber brown eyes in those other manuscripts to the riveting blue on the cover. ?

Stephenia H. McGee

Be honest. You judge a book by its cover, don’t you? Of course! We all do. I find the old never judge a book by its cover saying an interesting metaphor because while it certainly applies to people in a figurative sense (let’s not judge others solely on their appearance) it does not apply to books in a literal sense.

We judge books by their covers, and rightfully so. The cover gives an immediate impression of time, place, genre, and mood. You wouldn’t put the same cover on a historical romance that you would on a science fiction thriller, would you? Book covers are important because they showcase the type of story and draw the reader close enough to invite them into the story world.

For The Heart of Home, the cover started with finding the emotions. Tristian is a hero who has been deeply wounded, but is capable of deep love. Opal was once a hopeless romantic who still secretly wishes she could find her own fairy tale.
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This picture captured their emotions, and I knew it had to be the one:

I had admired some of Evelyne Labelle’s (at Carpe Librum Book Design) work on some author friends’ covers, so I decided to give her a try. I sent her this picture, a description of Riverbend, and a little about the story.
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The first mock up came in, and she really captured the feel I wanted:

​She had a great layout and design, so all we needed was the detail work. I wanted a different color gown to add more distinction between her dress and his uniform, the house needed more columns, and we needed to change bricked driveway. A few adjustments later, she sent the final:

​I love it. Feel free to judge away. From this cover, you should be able to tell this is a Civil War era love story (in this case it’s a few months after the end of the war) that takes place at an antebellum mansion. If that’s what you guessed, then the cover did exactly what it is supposed to. I hope when you look at it, you also see something about the emotion of the characters that draws you to want to know a little more about the story. If so, then the cover’s job is complete. It showed you time, genre, and represented the heart of the story within. 

Dawn Crandall

I believe readers go with their first reaction to a book by seeing the cover. It either draws them in or turns them away. 
 
How did the cover design for your specific story in the Timeless Love Collection come about (process of designing the cover, who designed it, etc.)?
 
Actually, I was having a little fun searching the Internet for stock photos to make a mock cover with—and I made one on my phone finagling between about a half dozen apps! When I signed my book contract, my publisher wanted to see it. I sent them my “idea for a cover” and they were all pretty impressed! So they actually bought the very photos I’d used on my mock cover and made a perfectly wonderful finished and polished (like only a graphic artist can!) version of my idea! ​

Kari Trumbo

Book covers are so very important. You wouldn't go to an important meeting or a job interview in yoga pants. They may feel good and you're comfortable in them, but they don't give off a good first impression. A good cover is the difference between doing your hair up and putting on your best, and the yoga pants you wear to the grocery store. For example, I didn't realize the absolute importance of a cover at first, and with my first book, released it with an inexpensive premade cover. The book sold, but very sporadically. I recovered it about a year later, better sales, beautiful cover, but not targeted to my audience. Still wrong. Then, I hired an expert cover designer. That book, at three years old, is now a consistent seller. My ads on it run well, because I did the same with the rest of the series, people pick up the other books now too. I can't stress enough how much a good cover matters.
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The cover for Timeless Love was done by Roseanna White, who was originally one of the authors I wanted to write on our team. She had some conflicts and wasn't able to, but she still wanted to help by designing the cover. We are so appreciative because the cover for Timeless Love is gorgeous and really captures the feel we were looking for, which is the idea that love is the way the Lord shows us his Timelessness. I sent Roseanna a few cover ideas that other collections had done that I'd liked. A little of this, a little of that. I sent her some images as inspiration. Like a mini Pinterest. She took all that information and blew me away with what she designed.

Pepper Basham

I think book covers are our 'first look' at a story. I think we are all naturally drawn to beautiful things and the best way to catch someone's eyes is to make the story visually appealing from the start...THEN they can figure out if the story is for them or not by reading the words :-)
 
Facade was such a fun cover to design. I wanted to show intrigue, since the story is about espionage, but I also wanted to give the reader and immediate sense of 'time'. The flags helped with that. I usually know what I want my covers to look like when I design them myself, so I sent my 'mock up' to Roseanna White and she made the final cover lovely! 

"Mock Up"

Finished Product

Sarah Monzon

Oh, I love me a good cover. Pleas don’t judge me, but I am totally a cover snob. If a cover looks unprofessional then I tend to think the story within was created with the same lackadaisical mentality (I know that’s not always the case, but it’s hard for me to pick up a book and want to read it if the cover doesn’t look appealing.)

As far as the cover for Bookishly Ever After, I was clicking through a stock photo site and came upon the illustration. I thought it was totally cute and it really fit the vibe of the story as well as the romcom genre as a whole. I bought the rights to use the photo then found the fonts I wanted to use, played around with size and placement, and, voila, a cover was born! Just wait until you see the other two I have in store for future stories of this little series. *wink*

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