• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Patricia Sands

Author

  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
    • Can I visit your Book Club on Zoom?
  • Books
    • The Bridge Club
    • Love in Provence Series
      • The Promise of Provence
      • About Promises to Keep
      • I Promise You This
    • Drawing Lessons
    • Les Villa des Viollettes series
      • The First Noël at the Villa des Violettes
      • A Season of Surprises at the Villa des Violettes
      • Lavender, Loss & Love at the Villa des Violettes
    • The Secrets We Hide
  • Travel
    • Photography, France & d’Ailleurs
  • Instagram
  • If it’s Friday, it must be France…
  • Contact me

Taking Root in Provence

August 23, 2014 by Patricia Sands 15 Comments

If it’s Friday, it must be France …

9.window Aix-en-Provence

Just over a year ago, Anne-Marie Simons and her husband, Oscar, were featured on my blog.  Hop on over there to learn more about this charming couple and read an excerpt from Taking Root in Provence.

Anne-Marie is, among other things writerly, the author

book-cover-small of Taking Root in Provence, a delightful non-fiction book about life in France. If you haven’t read it and you love France as much as I do, you will enjoy the vignettes. They are charming, informative and often hilarious! True snapshots of Provençal culture acquired since Anne-Marie and Oscar settled in Aix-en-Provence in 1998.

Anne-Marie is also a journalist and her blog, Provence Today, keeps readers up to date on the latest news in France with her keen, unbiased observations.

Since I returned from France in July, I’ve shared a few posts about other writers in France you might like to follow. You can click right here to go to links to Claire McAlpine, Margo Lestz and Kristin Espinasse.

One of the aspects of travel that I love is the opportunity to meet people in person after knowing them only online. After our plans to meet in 2013 didn’t work out, Anne-Marie and I finally had a chance to sit down together at Le Grillon in Aix-en-Provence on June 30 this year. It was great fun and just too short a time! Hopefully we’ll be able to do it again next summer!

17.IMG_5383
02.IMG_4159
1.DSC01685
4.IMG_2586
IMG_2596
IMG_2594
DSC01695
DSC01691
DSC01685

Summer is flying by! What are your special plans? Meeting up with friends? Take some time and just do it …

Come and join me on Facebook on Monday, August 25th for the COVER REVEAL  of my new novel, Promises To Keep. Just click right here. Release day is coming up too on August 29th! More on that next week. 

In case you haven’t heard, The Promise of Provence is specially priced at $.99 this week. Really! Click right here today. We want to make sure everyone has a chance to read it before Promises To Keep is published. Kat’s adventure in the south of France continues!

Bon weekend, tout le monde! 

10443451_10151976704122537_2570785154353389354_n

 

 

 

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • More
  • Pocket
  • Print
  • Email

Related

Filed Under: Blog, France, General Travel, If it is France..., Writing Tagged With: Aix-En-Provence, Anne-Marie Simons, cover reveal, Patricia Sands, Promises To Keep, Taking Root In Provence

About Patricia Sands

Family, writing and travel are my passions ... okay, and chocolate ... and I'm seldom without a camera. I write women's fiction and keep in touch with readers by a monthly newsletter that also has giveaways and contests. Come and join us by signing up on the right. See you there!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Anneli Purchase says

    August 23, 2014 at 12:45 am

    Looking forward to this book!

    Reply
    • Patricia Sands says

      August 23, 2014 at 11:51 am

      Thanks, Anneli! I’m already working on the next! This story has a grip on me, so it’s a good thing it’s set where I want to be!

      Reply
  2. Marcia richards says

    August 23, 2014 at 10:30 am

    Congrats on your upcoming release, Patricia! Looking forward to this book! And the cover! Wishing you all the best with it!

    Reply
    • Patricia Sands says

      August 23, 2014 at 11:52 am

      Hi Marcia, it’s so nice to see you here! Thanks for your good wishes … hope your summer is going brilliantly and that life is good! <3

      Reply
  3. anne-marie simons says

    August 23, 2014 at 12:01 pm

    Best of luck with the release next week of Promises to Keep, and congrats on meeting your deadline of summer 2014! I know the book will be a hit given the great response to The Promise of Provence and the fact that your love for this area just oozes from every page. Now if you can keep your promise of four or five more sequels (did you really say that?) you’ll have a mass of happy followers, including yours truly. But let’s not be greedy and first savour slowly the upcoming Promises before clamouring for more. May you have continued success and may your energy never wane.

    Reply
    • Patricia Sands says

      August 23, 2014 at 2:43 pm

      Thank you for your good wishes, Anne-Marie. We will toast all that next summer in Aix!

      Reply
  4. Giarnese Toni says

    August 23, 2014 at 12:08 pm

    Happy Weekend to you, online friend…anticipating the reveal. 🙂

    Reply
    • Patricia Sands says

      August 23, 2014 at 2:35 pm

      Rightbackatcha, Toni! I suspect we may get to meet in person this winter. What do you say? I’m excited to get this book out … because I’ve begun the next one! On we go!

      Reply
  5. evelyneholingue says

    August 23, 2014 at 1:34 pm

    Merci pour le lien sur le site d’Anne Marie, Patricia. Je suis impatiente de lire votre prochain livre. A plus tard.

    Reply
    • Patricia Sands says

      August 23, 2014 at 2:42 pm

      De rien! Je crois que Taking Root In Provence vous plaira beaucoup … et mon roman également, j’espère !
      Bon weekend, mon amie!

      Reply
  6. Sue Malizia says

    August 23, 2014 at 8:31 pm

    Patricia,
    I by chance ordered through BookBub and just finished reading “The Promise of Provence”. On the last page of the book it says to go to your website and leave a postal address to watch for a vintage postcard in October and that your follow up novel will be out by December. Well….thinking it meant this year I went and it no longer is working… so I went to your blog and am now up to date with the news of your follow up book cover reveal this coming Monday. It’s one of those rare stories you don’t want to end. I feel lucky that although I’m a year behind, I’m excited I don’t have to wait to get your new follow up book, as I loved the characters and beautiful setting. It was as though I was there in France experiencing right along while reading. I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your book!

    Reply
    • Patricia Sands says

      August 23, 2014 at 9:58 pm

      Sue, thanks so much for taking the time to share your comments with me. I love hearing from readers. You just reminded me that we must update that last page in the book. The postcards were sent last year and we had a tremendous response for them which was great fun. You are right about not having to wait for the next book. It will be out very soon. I’ve sent you an email with some details and I’m so glad you enjoyed being part of Katherine’s adventure.

      Reply
  7. Patricia says

    August 25, 2014 at 5:25 pm

    Fun stuff, Patricia and more lovely photos. It is so nice to put faces with names. I had the opportunity to meet 2 of my on-line friends at the RWA conference in July in San Antonio. That was truly one of the highlights of my conference.

    And in about 2 weeks, I’m taking off for my cruise to Alaska. I’ve been looking forward to that all summer.

    Patricia Rickrode
    w/a Jansen Schmidt

    Reply
    • Patricia Sands says

      August 25, 2014 at 11:33 pm

      Thanks, Patricia … a cruise to Alaska … wonderful! I think we might do one next year so I will look forward to hearing about yours. Have a wonderful time!

      I’m sorry I couldn’t make the RWA this year, we could have met then too. Maybe 2015? The date is a problem for me, but you never know! How cool that you met up with some of your online friends there. SO good!

      Reply

Trackbacks

  1. How To Build A Perfect Blog Post | Molly Greene: Writer says:
    September 22, 2014 at 5:26 pm

    […] You can blog about these subjects. For instance, say your main character is a Francophile like Patricia Sand’s protagonist. You write about France, right? It’s simple and brilliant, and you can do this, […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Join Me Here!

RSS
Facebook
Facebook
fb-share-icon
Twitter
Visit Us
Tweet
YouTube
Pinterest
Pinterest
fb-share-icon
LinkedIn
LinkedIn
Share
Instagram

Follow Me on BookBub

Follow Me on BookBub

Follow me on Amazon

Follow me on Amazon

Available from Amazon!

Available from Amazon!

Available Now!

Available Now!

Available from Amazon

Available from Amazon

Join me and 9 of your favourite women’s fiction authors

Join me and 9 of your favourite women’s fiction authors

The Good Life France Magazine

The Good Life France Magazine

Categories

Archives

Footer

Copyright Disclaimer

© 2020 by Patricia Sands. All rights reserved. Permission is granted to use short quotes provided a link back to this page and proper attribution is given to me as the original author. All photographs on this site are copyright of Patricia Sands

Follow Me!

RSS
Facebook
Facebook
fb-share-icon
Twitter
Visit Us
Tweet
YouTube
Pinterest
Pinterest
fb-share-icon
LinkedIn
LinkedIn
Share
Instagram
  • Privacy Policy

FTC DISCLOSURE

The Federal Trade Commission requires that I disclose any relationship I have between a product manufacturer or service provider when I write about a product or service. I may receive a small commission for purchases made via affiliate links on this site such as Amazon. The above does not affect my opinion of those products and services. I am committed to sharing the work of other authors with my friends and readers.

Copyright © 2023 By Patricia Sands · Theme created and maintained by Bakerview Consulting