Sally Christie

on  Tour

April 5-14

with

The Rivals of Versailles

(historical fiction)

 Release date: April 5, 2016
at Atria Books/Simon & Schuster

448  pages

ISBN: 978-1501102998

Website | Goodreads

SYNOPSIS

In this scandalous follow-up to Sally Christie’s clever and absorbing debut, we meet none other than the Marquise de Pompadour, one of the greatest beauties of her generation and the first bourgeois mistress ever to grace the hallowed halls of Versailles. The year is 1745. Marie-Anne, the youngest of the infamous Nesle sisters and King Louis XV’s most beloved mistress, is gone, making room for the next Royal Favorite.

Enter Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, a stunningly beautiful girl from the middle classes. Fifteen years prior, a fortune teller had mapped out young Jeanne’s destiny: she would become the lover of a king and the most powerful woman in the land. Eventually connections, luck, and a little scheming pave her way to Versailles and into the King’s arms.

All too soon, conniving politicians and hopeful beauties seek to replace the bourgeois interloper with a more suitable mistress. As Jeanne, now the Marquise de Pompadour, takes on her many rivals—including a lustful lady-in-waiting; a precocious fourteen-year-old prostitute, and even a cousin of the notorious Nesle sisters—she helps the king give himself over to a life of luxury and depravity. Around them, war rages, discontent grows, and France inches ever closer to the Revolution.

Enigmatic beauty, social climber, actress, trendsetter, patron of the arts, spendthrift, whoremonger, friend, lover, foe. History books may say many things about the famous Marquise de Pompadour, but one thing is clear: for almost twenty years, she ruled France and the King’s heart.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sally Christie
is the author of The Sisters of Versailles.
She was born in England and grew up around the world,
attending eight schools in three different languages.
She spent most of her career working
in international development and currently lives in Toronto.

Learn more about the sisters and the mistresses in the Versailles trilogy on her website
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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Tuesday, April 5
Review + Giveaway Interview at American Girls Art Club in Paris

Wednesday, April 6
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at The Reading Queen

Thursday, April 7
Review + Giveaway at An Accidental Blog

Friday, April 8
Review + Guest-Post + Giveaway at A Holland Reads

Sunday, April 10
Review at The Victorian Librarian

Monday, April 11
Review + Giveaway at Book Nerd

Tuesday, April 12
Review at Bookramblings

Review + Giveaway at LibriAmoriMiei

Wednesday, April 13
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at Impressions In Ink

Thursday, April 14
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace

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Global giveaway open to US residents only:
5 participants will each win a print copy of this book.

 

 

 

After her very successful tour
for
The Keys of the Watchmen,
one of the top 3 books
most viewed in 2015
on France Book Tours

Kathleen C. Perrin

is back for the second book in the series!

on tour

March 7-26, 2016

The Sword of the Maiden

(historical fiction)

 Release date: December 3, 2015
Self published at Langon House

515  pages

ISBN: 978-0692576922

Website | Goodreads

SYNOPSIS

After being abruptly separated from Nicolas le Breton during the battle to save Mont Saint Michel in 1424, Katelyn Michaels finds herself back in her normal twenty-first century life as an American teenager. Depressed and anxious to be reunited with Nicolas, she is comforted when a series of events and impressions lead her to believe she is being prepared for another mission as a Watchman. When her beloved mentor, Jean le Vieux, comes to her in a dream and gives her the injunction to “Learn of the Maiden and take her the sword,” Katelyn understands that her mission involves assisting one of the most iconic figures in all of French History. Katelyn is once again whisked back to the turmoil of medieval France during the Hundred Years’ War and to Nicolas. However, before the two can consider the future of their relationship, they must first complete their mission to take the sword to the Maiden. Little do they know that their old nemesis, Abdon, is already on their trail and will do everything in his unhallowed power to stop them.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kathleen C. Perrin
holds bachelor’s degrees in French and Humanities
from Brigham Young University
and is a certified French translator.
Besides being the author of The Watchmen Saga,
she has published several non-fiction articles, academic papers,
and a religious history about Tahiti.
Kathleen has lived in Utah, New York City, France, and French Polynesia.
She and her French husband have spent years
investigating the mysteries and beauties of his native country
—where they have a cottage—and have taken tourist groups to France.
The Perrins have three children and currently reside in Utah.

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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Monday, March 7
Review + Giveaway at History from a Woman’s Perspective

Tuesday, March 8
Review by Erin on Goodreads

Wednesday, March 9
Review + Giveaway at French Village Diaries

Thursday, March 10
Review + Giveaway at The Fictional 100

Friday, March 11
Review + Giveaway at The Testy Badger

Saturday, March 12
Review + Giveaway at Book Nerd

Sunday, March 13
Guest-Post at History from a Woman’s Perspective

Tuesday, March 15
Review + Giveaway at LibriAmoriMiei

Wednesday, March 23
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at Impressions in Ink

Thursday, March 24
Review + Giveaway at Celticlady’s Reviews

Saturday, March 26
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace

  

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Global giveaway open internationally:
5 participants will each win a copy of this book, print or digital
and 3 participants will each win a $10 Amazon gift card

FRANCE BOOK TOURS 2015

2015 has been another great year for France Book Tours, its authors and its reviewers!

Here is the year through some graphs and stats.

28 books have been presented in 2015 (a total of 89 so far)

Mystery was the most popular genre, but we had a nice diversity otherwise.
Women writers were more present.
And many books translated from the French!

AND NOW TO THE 3 BOOKS
MOST OFTEN VIEWED IN 2015
(click on the covers to know more)

#1

#2

#3

Through France Book Tours, the following have been posted:

• 224 reviews
• 51 spolights
• 36 excerpts
• 13 guest-posts
• 12 interviews

Don’t forget that book reviewers are entered in $15 gift card giveaway for each 10 stops tour, when they cross-post their reviews. More information here.
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HAPPY NEW WRITING AND READING YEAR
TO EACH OF YOU!