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I hope your Thanksgiving Day and weekend have been happy and safe with lots of good memories being made with family and friends.
See you in December!
I’m excited! I’m taking a deep breath and getting ready to launch my new novel, Promises To Keep. The cover reveal is coming soon. My newsletter subscribers had a sneak peek at it this week and the word is that it’s definitely a keeper!
First on the release agenda is this special offer for The Promise of Provence which
now will become known as the first book in my new series … please read on …
Thanks to all the readers who asked for it, a “Love In Provence” series is evolving from my novel, The Promise of Provence. It’s been so fabulous for me to hear how engaged you are with the characters and how much more you want to know about what happens to them. I’m delighted and so are the many readers who write to me! (And may I say once again how I love to hear from you? Merci!)
What a pleasure for me to continue bringing you stories set in this part of the world that we all love so much. Thanks for making this writing work so much fun!
So … to get the launch of the new book rolling … The Promise of Provence ebook will be offered at the special price of $.99 (instead of $4.99) from today, August 17, until August 28. BookBub will be advertising today too! Yay!
For all of you who already have your copy, it’s a great opportunity to do some gift shopping!
Did you know that Amazon will let you store your GIFT BOOKS in your account and then you can send them whenever you want? You know, for birthdays, special holidays, anniversaries, feelin’ down days or just because … I like those “just because” days the best, don’t you?
Tell all your friends and ask them to tell their friends. Read Book One before Book Two!
You can find this $.99 price all week on all these sites ~ just click on the links right here! Easy peasy!
Thanks to everyone who sent in comments about the new cover through my newsletter! Our mailbox was overflowing ~ woohoo! There’s still time to send in yours!
PICTURE YOURSELF READING RIGHT HERE! WHY NOT? WE CAN ALWAYS DREAM …
If it’s Friday, it must be France …
Bonjour! Last week I posted two photos of Entrevaux and promised more. Voilà!
Perched at the meeting point of two valleys in the mountains north of Nice , Entrevaux is one of those intriguing, ancient villages so easy to stumble upon in Europe.
The 2-hour train ride from Nice didn’t live up to our expectations. One could drive the 60 km in half the time, but when Entrevaux appeared before us we were glad to be there .
I hope you have a few minutes to take a meander through the narrow, twisting alleyways of this medieval village. Be intrigued by the tall, slender houses, many in disrepair, with precarious staircases, as well as curious small squares, primitive fountains and a 16thC gem of a church.
Overlooking the Var river and protected by a 17C citadel sitting even higher above the village, it guards a once highly strategic approach to the south. There’s even a drawbridge!
With a turbulent and rich two thousand-year-old history, Entrevaux was officially established in the 11thC. Its greatest glory appears to have occurred in 1536 when the inhabitants bravely retook the town from capture by Charles Quint of Spain and Austria and returned it to the King of France.
There are many small communities throughout Europe, with colourful histories like this, that struggle to stay alive after so many centuries. Regional economy falters, infrastructure crumbles, young people leave.
My imagination is captured. How about yours?
The wind whipped through the cramped passageways this particular day, creating dramatic shifts in light and shadow. My camera shutter steamed. Stories begged to be told.
Meander as you please.
I would be embarrassed to tell you how long it took me to put this slideshow together. I just hope I remember for the next time!
Oh … and let me share some good news! The cover of The Bridge Club, A Novel was one of eight featured as good examples of effective cover art in this post: book covers from BookBub Unbound. The talented, clever, and always good-natured Carrie Spencer did all the hard work in putting that cover together. She also formatted the cover for The Promise of Provence. A toast to her!
I was notified the week before last that The Promise of Provence
received a Finalist award in the 2013 USA Best Book Award.
Hearing from satisfied readers and receiving awards guarantees to inspire and motivate every author. If I end this post, I might even make a good bump with my word count in my next novel this evening.
I sent out my third newsletter this week and after I hit “publish” discovered a typo in the FIRST line! Ack! How does that happen? Actually I know how it happens. Writing too late into the night is how it happens! Never mind, but I do apologize. The correct spelling is “vieille” … sigh …
In spite of the odd typo, if you would like to join my newsletter mailing list there’s a link on this page and I would be happy to see your name added. That mailing list makes me smile every time I look at it since everyone is there because they contacted me. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate hearing from you and value your interest and support. Merci mille fois!
Bon weekend tout le monde! What do you have planned?
‘Tis the season to feel stressfully slightly overloaded! Humming joyful holiday songs only works for so long … Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel or Jingle Bells … whatever helps. Normally I love the busy bustle of the holiday season.
However, *cue doleful organ music*, I am lagging far behind with everything at the moment, and in my little world that can only mean one thing … edits. I am hard into them again in the hopes of getting The Promise Of Provence out into the world by February.
That’s my excuse for being over a week late with this photo challenge (from November 30) which I dearly wanted to enter. The one photo I had in mind appears to have vanished from my iPhoto library. *pausing for a slight head bang* How does that happen?
I offer these for some reflection on your part.
I photographed a bizillion a lot of shop windows in Venice and played around quite a bit before I figured out how to eliminate the reflection. There were a few shots where I liked the way reflection added to the effect and this is one. Fascinated by the history and artistry of the masks in this magnificent town, the idea of an unknown face reflected here added to my musings. What sort of mask do many of us wear from time to time?
At the moment, I am wearing my *mask of shame* and apologize to anyone who is wondering if I have fallen off the planet. Nope … just hunkered down in the editing trenches.
I did manage to surface long enough last week to do what was needed for a promotion I arranged months ago for The Bridge Club on BookBub.com. Let me simply say right now an ENORMOUS thank you to everyone who downloaded the book. An equally huge thank you goes to all of my writing and blogging friends who supported through social media. You all ROCK!
TBC hit #33 in the Amazon Kindle Store (that’s out of one million – woohoo!) and was #1, #1 and #5 in our Amazon categories for several days. It was exciting and oh so satisfying to know that so many new readers had decided to get to know the ladies of The Bridge Club!
How does “Reflection” look to you? Click here to check out the other entries in the weekly photo challenge.
Happy Hanukkah 
to everyone celebrating this special holiday.
And now back to work …
