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Love Is Never Past Tense - Second Edition Release
I am happy to announce the new edition of Love Is Never Past Tense with a new cover created by a very talented designer from Australia David Tonkin. The Kindle version is already available with other versions coming soon.
I am also happy to announce that October 16 and 17 we are having an author's Q&A session on the Goodreads group Romance Readers Reading Challenges. Discussion: Ask An Author, Win A Book Corner.
I'll be giving away ebooks and answering questions for some of the groups 7,000+ members.
This is the way the group describes itself:
If you love to read romance novels, or just read, and you like reading challenges, come and join this group. If you look at your TBR list and don't know which book to start with, worry no more. We will give you a reason to. We have a variety of reading challenges, monthly book recommendations, buddy reads, book-and non-book-related discussions, author interviews/giveaways and plenty of fun and games to keep you entertain while hanging out with a bunch of people that love to read and talk about books. Happy Reading!
If this sounds like fun to you, the group will be happy to have you join. I'd love to see you visit while I am answering questions.
Please join us at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Looking forward to talking with you soon! :)
Love Is Never Past Tense...
I am also happy to announce that October 16 and 17 we are having an author's Q&A session on the Goodreads group Romance Readers Reading Challenges. Discussion: Ask An Author, Win A Book Corner.
I'll be giving away ebooks and answering questions for some of the groups 7,000+ members.
This is the way the group describes itself:
If you love to read romance novels, or just read, and you like reading challenges, come and join this group. If you look at your TBR list and don't know which book to start with, worry no more. We will give you a reason to. We have a variety of reading challenges, monthly book recommendations, buddy reads, book-and non-book-related discussions, author interviews/giveaways and plenty of fun and games to keep you entertain while hanging out with a bunch of people that love to read and talk about books. Happy Reading!
If this sounds like fun to you, the group will be happy to have you join. I'd love to see you visit while I am answering questions.
Please join us at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Looking forward to talking with you soon! :)
Love Is Never Past Tense...
Wishing you bunches of Love in the coming New Year!
I want to share a little story related to Love Is Never Past Tense. A couple of years ago, when the book was not yet published, I was flying after my seminar from Philadelphia, PA. On my lap, I had a proof copy of the book. I was scanning the lines, double checking for mistakes.
Next to me was sitting a man who asked me what I was reading and I told him. He asked me to show him the book. I gave it to him and he started reading it. He did not give it back to me until we landed in Chicago.
He was a PhD graduate from Yale. He handed me his business card and asked me to let him know when the book was published. He said he wanted to buy it.
I took the card and sent him the book as a gift. After he finished it, he called me and said that he sees a great movie created from this book and he is sharing it with his friends.
A year later they organized a huge event presenting Love Is Never Past Tense. They flew me to Omaha, offered me a great hotel and placed an article in a local newspaper!
Recently, the book was read by a screen play writer, who fell in love with it. He wrote a screen play, and now we are looking for sponsors to give life to it on the screen.
Today, for the first time, I put the book on a $.99 sale for winter holidays! It’s all over the place. Here are a couple of quick links:
Smashwords: http://ow.ly/G6yAE
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1sBrl7I
Kobo: http://ow.ly/G7lSn
Itunes: https://itun.es/us/xXn-S.l
Barnes&Noble: http://ow.ly/G7mrH
Wishing you bunches of Love in the coming New Year!
Love you all!
Janna Yeshanova.
Next to me was sitting a man who asked me what I was reading and I told him. He asked me to show him the book. I gave it to him and he started reading it. He did not give it back to me until we landed in Chicago.
He was a PhD graduate from Yale. He handed me his business card and asked me to let him know when the book was published. He said he wanted to buy it.
I took the card and sent him the book as a gift. After he finished it, he called me and said that he sees a great movie created from this book and he is sharing it with his friends.
A year later they organized a huge event presenting Love Is Never Past Tense. They flew me to Omaha, offered me a great hotel and placed an article in a local newspaper!
Recently, the book was read by a screen play writer, who fell in love with it. He wrote a screen play, and now we are looking for sponsors to give life to it on the screen.
Today, for the first time, I put the book on a $.99 sale for winter holidays! It’s all over the place. Here are a couple of quick links:
Smashwords: http://ow.ly/G6yAE
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1sBrl7I
Kobo: http://ow.ly/G7lSn
Itunes: https://itun.es/us/xXn-S.l
Barnes&Noble: http://ow.ly/G7mrH
Wishing you bunches of Love in the coming New Year!
Love you all!
Janna Yeshanova.
$.99 SALE ONE MORE DAY
A hot summer romance leads to a hasty marriage, a quick divorce, and years of struggling to survive the fall of the Soviet Union until the lovers find each other again from opposite sides of the ocean...
link for Amazon: http://amzn.to/1sBrl7I
Valentine’s Day Sale Celebrates Great Reviews
Love Is Never Past Tense recently received some great customer reviews on Amazon. Sharing the latest ones:
Love Is Never Past Tense spoke to my heart, as it displayed a true exhibition of how true love never ever leaves a person. It exemplifies the various stages of love beginning with infatuation, then lust, followed by a longing that never ever leaves the heart or the mind…
http://amzn.to/20GHECy
A good read without all the complexity of too many modern “love stories”. Charming in its presentation with just the right flavor of the author’s Russian background. It’s like listening to an old friend talking about a romantic thread that has run through her life.
http://amzn.to/1Si7J9D
I just reread the book… and I was amazed what twists of fate happened to the heroine, and what a strong character she possessed. When I saw photos of her in the cockpit of an airplane, I dropped all doubts that everything described was the truth.
http://amzn.to/1PmWdGf
To celebrate the good news, the Kindle edition of the book has been put on sale for 3 days starting Feb 12. The price goes up during the sale, so shop for your sweetheart early! http://amzn.to/1RrOglH
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Love Is Never Past Tense spoke to my heart, as it displayed a true exhibition of how true love never ever leaves a person. It exemplifies the various stages of love beginning with infatuation, then lust, followed by a longing that never ever leaves the heart or the mind…
http://amzn.to/20GHECy
A good read without all the complexity of too many modern “love stories”. Charming in its presentation with just the right flavor of the author’s Russian background. It’s like listening to an old friend talking about a romantic thread that has run through her life.
http://amzn.to/1Si7J9D
I just reread the book… and I was amazed what twists of fate happened to the heroine, and what a strong character she possessed. When I saw photos of her in the cockpit of an airplane, I dropped all doubts that everything described was the truth.
http://amzn.to/1PmWdGf
To celebrate the good news, the Kindle edition of the book has been put on sale for 3 days starting Feb 12. The price goes up during the sale, so shop for your sweetheart early! http://amzn.to/1RrOglH
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Now an Audio Book!
Today I am announcing that Love Is Never Past Tense is now available at Audible and Amazon and is expected soon on ITunes. If you sign up for a 30-day trial on Audible, you can get it free.
Sound brought a new dimension to my story. Getting it just right was very important, which meant selecting the right narrator was vital. Over the past few years, I listened to dozens of samples. Finding someone with the right voice and the right technical skills was a big effort. I was looking for a person who could not only read the text, but feel it.
I went through many voices: actors, students, voice over artists—you name it. None of them seemed good for the book.
One day, when I nearly decided to leave the project alone, I went to ACX — a market for matching authors with freelance narrators who have the talent and access to the technology. ACX had samples available, thousands upon thousands of samples. I clicked on a sample of Daniela Acitelli — I was attracted by the beautiful name. To my wonder, this was the one!
The Right Voice
Daniela is a narrator from the UK who has created numerous audio books and logged hundreds of finished stories. When she sent me the sample, I was thrilled to realize that she picked up and expressed feelings, intonations, and character features perfectly! She brought out the characters, the romance and the drama so vividly! This wasn’t a simple reading. It was a story—the story I heard in my head as I was writing the book.
And More
I included a short fragment of a beautiful violin piece by my dear departed friend Karo Hayrapetyan, the famed Armenian master. His son who lives Armenia gave me permission.
I dedicated the book to my Mom and my daughter Alla.
Find It Here
The eBook is available exclusively on Amazon. If you are a Kindle Unlimited user, you can download it for free.
Here is where to get the audio book, the eBook or both.
Kindle: https://amzn.to/2zXsp1y
Audible (includes a sample): https://adbl.co/2FryMjR
Book Trailer: http://bit.ly/2LtdlfS
Synopsis
How could he possibly know that she, a complete stranger, would inexplicably affect his life and be with him forever, whether she was at his side or not? Drawn together in Russia on a romantic Black Sea beach, Serge and Janna fall headlong in love and rush into marriage. Their divorce months later leads to years of “if only …” Pressured apart by family and fate, they repeatedly cross paths, never quite reconnecting, never quite letting go.
He faces Soviet corruption and self-doubt, his life falling toward disaster. She pushes out through Soviet bureaucracy to safety in America. As they build separate lives and families, their destinies, shaped by post-Soviet political intrigue, collapse into a struggle for their very survival, and dreams of a better life. Years later, distant memories of young, passionate love spawn emails that lead to international calls reviving an intimate, romantic connection.
They meet in the town they first met. It was as if they had been apart only a day.
“How did you end up abroad?” And the story of her unbelievable exodus follows; an exodus from a crumbling country with her child, her elderly mom, and $126 in her pocket.
The world had tried to tear them – and itself – apart, but years have made them wiser. They decide to give their romance another chance, proving that Love Is Never Past Tense.
I look forward to your comments.
Janna Yeshanova
Sound brought a new dimension to my story. Getting it just right was very important, which meant selecting the right narrator was vital. Over the past few years, I listened to dozens of samples. Finding someone with the right voice and the right technical skills was a big effort. I was looking for a person who could not only read the text, but feel it.
I went through many voices: actors, students, voice over artists—you name it. None of them seemed good for the book.
One day, when I nearly decided to leave the project alone, I went to ACX — a market for matching authors with freelance narrators who have the talent and access to the technology. ACX had samples available, thousands upon thousands of samples. I clicked on a sample of Daniela Acitelli — I was attracted by the beautiful name. To my wonder, this was the one!
The Right Voice
Daniela is a narrator from the UK who has created numerous audio books and logged hundreds of finished stories. When she sent me the sample, I was thrilled to realize that she picked up and expressed feelings, intonations, and character features perfectly! She brought out the characters, the romance and the drama so vividly! This wasn’t a simple reading. It was a story—the story I heard in my head as I was writing the book.
And More
I included a short fragment of a beautiful violin piece by my dear departed friend Karo Hayrapetyan, the famed Armenian master. His son who lives Armenia gave me permission.
I dedicated the book to my Mom and my daughter Alla.
Find It Here
The eBook is available exclusively on Amazon. If you are a Kindle Unlimited user, you can download it for free.
Here is where to get the audio book, the eBook or both.
Kindle: https://amzn.to/2zXsp1y
Audible (includes a sample): https://adbl.co/2FryMjR
Book Trailer: http://bit.ly/2LtdlfS
How could he possibly know that she, a complete stranger, would inexplicably impact his life and be with him forever, whether she was at his side or not?
Synopsis
How could he possibly know that she, a complete stranger, would inexplicably affect his life and be with him forever, whether she was at his side or not? Drawn together in Russia on a romantic Black Sea beach, Serge and Janna fall headlong in love and rush into marriage. Their divorce months later leads to years of “if only …” Pressured apart by family and fate, they repeatedly cross paths, never quite reconnecting, never quite letting go.
He faces Soviet corruption and self-doubt, his life falling toward disaster. She pushes out through Soviet bureaucracy to safety in America. As they build separate lives and families, their destinies, shaped by post-Soviet political intrigue, collapse into a struggle for their very survival, and dreams of a better life. Years later, distant memories of young, passionate love spawn emails that lead to international calls reviving an intimate, romantic connection.
They meet in the town they first met. It was as if they had been apart only a day.
“How did you end up abroad?” And the story of her unbelievable exodus follows; an exodus from a crumbling country with her child, her elderly mom, and $126 in her pocket.
The world had tried to tear them – and itself – apart, but years have made them wiser. They decide to give their romance another chance, proving that Love Is Never Past Tense.
I look forward to your comments.
Janna Yeshanova
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