Samantha Vérant on Tour: Seven Letters From Paris

Author Samantha Vérant

on Tour

October 13-17, 2014

with

Seven Letters From Paris

[memoir]

Release date: October 7, 2014
at Sourcebooks

288 pages

ISBN: 978-1402297229

Author’s website | Goodreads

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SYNOPSIS

Twenty years, seven letters, and one long-lost love of a lifetime

At age 40, Samantha Vérant’s life is falling apart-she’s jobless, in debt, and feeling stuck… until she stumbles upon seven old love letters from Jean-Luc, the sexy Frenchman she’d met in Paris when she was 19. With a quick Google search, she finds him, and both are quick to realize that the passion they felt 20 years prior hasn’t faded with time and distance.

Samantha knows that jetting off to France to reconnect with a man that she only knew for one sun-drenched, passion-filled day is crazy-but it’s the kind of crazy she’s been waiting for her whole life. [provided by the publisher]

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Samantha Vérant is a travel addict,
a self-professed oenophile,
and a determined, if occasionally unconventional, French chef.
Over the years, she’s visited many different countries,
lived in many places, and worked many jobs
— always on the search for the one thing that truly excited her.
Then, one day, she found everything she’s been looking for:
a passion for the written word and true love.
Writing not only enabled her to open her heart, it led her to southwestern France,
where she’s now married to a sexy French rocket scientist she met in 1989, but ignored for 20 years.

Visit her website. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter , Pinterest

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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Monday, October 13
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace

Tuesday, October 14
Review + Guest-Post + Giveaway at Griperang’s Bookmarks

Wednesday, October 15
Review at Jorie Loves A Story
Interview at Jorie Loves A Story

Thursday, October 16
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at Unshelfish

Friday, October 17
Review + Giveaway at Booklover Book Reviews

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You can enter the giveaway here
or on the book blogs participating in this tour.
Be sure to follow each participant on Twitter,
they are listed in the entry form below.

Visit each blogger on the tour:
tweeting about the giveaway everyday of the Tour
will give you 5 extra entries each time!
[just follow the directions on the entry-form]

Entry -Form

It’s open internationally
We will have 2 winners
print copy for a resident of any country!

August 20, 2014

WordsAndPeace

24 Comments

Categories: Memoir, Paris Tags: letters, Paris, passion, Samantha Vérant

July Book of the month giveaway winner

Random.org has spoken:

and the happy winner of

is

CHRISTINE

at
Readerly Musings

Apart from winning this book,
Christine will be featured as the blogger of the month u
until the last day of August.
Please go visit her book blog!

And thanks again to Cris Hammond for offering his book.

Disappointed you didn’t win?

Why not buy yourself a treat?
Just $4.99 on kindle!

August 2, 2014

WordsAndPeace

3 Comments

Categories: blogger, Book of the Month, expat, Giveaway, Humor, Memoir, non-fiction, Paris, Travel Tags: barge, canal, Cris Hammond, Paris

Cherie Magnus on Tour: The Church of Tango

Author Cherie Magnus

on Tour

October 1-5, 2014

with

The Church of Tango:
A Memoir

[memoir / travel, with some elements of romance]

Release date: January 2012
at Mirasol Press

306 pages

ISBN: 978- 0615573540

Author’s website | Goodreads

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SYNOPSIS

More than a metaphor and much more than a dance, the Tango takes Cherie from being a widow with suicidal tendencies to traveling the world in search of herself, finding love, sorrow and serenity. Her quest takes her to France where she falls in love with aristocratic Olivier, and to Argentina where she falls in love with the tango. Along the way she discovers and deals with her own two separate breast cancers and the loss of all that she’d previously valued. Relationships in the desperate singles world is a whole new dance to learn, before being blessed at the Church of Tango.

The Church of Tango captivates readers struggling with tragic loss, illness, and death, as well as those who are passionate about travel and adventure, who long for love, or who delight in dance of all kinds.

Gold Medal winner 2013 of the Wishing Shelf Book Award [provided by the author]

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cherie Magnus, a California native, lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for 12 years.
She was a dance research librarian in the Los Angeles Central Library
and a dance critic for local newspapers before moving to France, Mexico, and finally to Argentina in 2003.
Many of her articles on dance, books, travel and international culture have been published in magazines,
professional journals, and several anthologies.
She has written a blog on expat life, Buenos Aires culture, and tango since 2006.
Currently she is preparing a prequel, Arabesque: Dancing on the Edge in Los Angeles, to be published in 2014.

Visit her website. Follow her on Facebook, and Twitter

Buy the book: Amazon (paperback) | Amazon (kindle) | Smashwords

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