![]() ![]() ![]() When the email arrived, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Nothing quite prepares you for seeing the cover of your first book after years and years of writing! It made the whole experience feel so real. ![]() Both of them knocked it out of the park! I will stop rambling and show you this gorgeous image and then let Becky talk about it… So Dickens with Great Expectations was a solid compromise and since this is a romance LOVE & OTHER GREAT EXPECTATIONS felt like it captured the vibe.Īnd then this cover…we lucked out with Ray Shappell as the cover designer and Libby VanderPloeg as our illustrator. ![]() We did want to keep some of the literary allusion, but it just felt like Chaucer was a bit too stodgy. While a love of British literature is definitely threaded throughout the text, the main character isn’t actually bookish and that’s one thing that makes this story feel fresh. Originally titled CHASING CHAUCER, and I loved the alliterative and concise form of the original, there were worries that Chaucer would make this book feel more literary than it is. It’s Amazing Race meets Lauren Morrill and the cover does an amazing job of conveying this. This is a story that incorporates romance and a scavenger hunt throughout England using literature as the basis for the clues. With some books the cover comes together so effortlessly, it’s hard to remember a time where this wasn’t what the book looked like. ![]()
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