Patricia Sands

Author

Promises To Keep

Cover reveal ~ Promises To Keep

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Thank you very much  … merci mille fois …  to all the enthusiastic readers who wrote to me and asked “What happened next?”, The Promise of Provence has become Book One in the Love In Provence series.  It’s on special for $.99 until August 28th. Read it before  Promises To Keep!

The cover of Book Two ~ Promises To Keep ~ was revealed today and the book will be available on all sales platforms in time for the long weekend. On y va! Come and join all the characters and some intriguing new ones in the south of France.

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Thanks to Scott Collie of Toronto for the original artwork and Carrie Spencer for the cover design. Magnifique!

Taking Root in Provence

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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!

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! 

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The Promise of Provence is $.99 this week!

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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 whichTPOPShadedwFinalist 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!

Amazon     Nook       iTunes     Kobo

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 …

Photo credit - my frriend Antonia's friend Laura at Cheval Blanc
Photo credit – My friend Antonia’s friend Laura at Cheval Blanc – photo credit