A Free e-book Offer!

ByDeborah Raney
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Many authors are reluctant to name their favorite book they’ve written—it’s akin to naming our favorite child!—but now that I’ve written over thirty-five books, a few have risen to the top. One of those in my top five…maybe top three…is my novel A Nest of Sparrows. That book also now wears my favorite all-time book cover, designed by my talented husband Ken Raney.

I wanted to let our e-book readers know that A Nest of Sparrows is FREE for Kindle today only, thanks to BookBub. You can download your free copy from amazon by clicking HERE.

A Nest of Sparrows is also available in a wonderful new audiobook format narrated by Julie Lancelot, who has become one of my favorite audio readers around! She did such a great job of capturing the many characters in this book and I am so grateful for her talent! Click HERE if you wish to purchase the audiobook version.

I love the original cover of A Nest of Sparrows too, first published in 2004 by WaterBrook Press. However, when authors get the rights back to their books, they aren’t usually able to get rights to the original covers. Plus, it’s always nice to give a reissued book a little “refresh” with a new cover!

Do you “judge a book by its cover”? How important are book covers when you are deciding what to read next? What are some of your favorite all-time book covers? I’d love to hear from you in the comments! Happy Monday!

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DEBORAH RANEY's first novel, A Vow to Cherish, inspired the World Wide Pictures film of the same title and launched Deb’s writing career. Forty books later, she's still creating stories that touch hearts and lives. Her novels have won RWA's RITA Award, the ACFW Carol Award, the National Readers Choice Award, and the HOLT Medallion. She is also a four-time Christy Award finalist. Deb is on faculty for several national writers’ conferences and served on the executive board of the 2,500-member American Christian Fiction Writers organization for 18 years before retiring in 2022. She is a recent transplant to Missouri, having moved with her husband, Ken Raney, from their native Kansas to be closer to kids and grandkids. They love road trips, e-biking, Friday garage sale dates, and breakfast on the screened porch overlooking their wooded backyard.

13 Comments

  1. The cover does influence my choice of books, but the reviews and the blurb about the book influence me even more than the covers

  2. Happy Monday! Covers are very important to me, but mostly if I am ‘looking’ for something to read. If I’ve already fallen in love with a series or a writer or topic, the cover is not as important. But I LOVE a great cover! I love the new cover with the hands and nest! Gorgeous!

  3. Thank you for the free e-book! I just downloaded it! Covers are important, but as someone said before me, if I already enjoy an author, the covers only mean so much. As a devoted Kindle reader, the covers mean a bit less. Sometimes, I read a book and then go back on Amazon and look at the cover again!

    1. That’s one thing I had to get used to reading e-books! When I read a print book (my first choice!) I refer back to the cover every few pages! Especially if it’s one that has hidden meaning or that has a lot to look at.

    1. Awww, thanks so much, Regina! I’m so glad you enjoyed it! It’s one of the hardest books I’ve ever written—difficult research, long hours writing when we still had kids at home…but I think it was worth it. Like I said, it’s grown to be one of my favorite books I’ve written.

  5. Well, for me I don’t pay much attention, unless( I’m revealing a big point here) the picture is a man. Then I’m going to pick that book up and really study that guy. I’ll drool a little, then read the blurb to see if he is a good guy or a bad guy. Now if that guy has a cowboy hat or a horse with him I’m all in! Thanks for the e-book, hope you have a great day and if I was able to make you chuckle or even smile I’m grateful! Have a really great day!

  6. Deborah
    The new cover is definitely more compelling. I love bird nests, and have watched hummingbirds hatch. They are so tiny! Thank you for the book, it looks fascinating.
    Susan

    1. I read mostly e-books now, after decades of dedicated library use. The covers are very important to me in book choices, and with Kindle Fire, the covers are in color, and I always look at the cover before reading, and often look back during the read.

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