is France Book Tours top book
for December 2013

that is, it is the book most often viewed
on France Book Tour
in December 2013.

Learn more about it here:

Author’s website | virtual book tour

 *** And you still have time to sign up to review this book! ***

We had 2 winners for December:

will go to

AUTUMN

As Autumn is the first reader Random.org chose,
her blog

will also be featured on France Book Tours
for the whole month of January.

Please go visit her blog!

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And

will go to

T. B. Markinson

Click on the book covers to know more about them.

And now is time to try your luck for the
January book of the month giveaway!

Author Stephanie Dagg

on Tour

February 24 – 28

with her

Heads Above Water:
Staying Afloat in France

[nonfiction]

 Release date: November 10, 2012
at Smashwords

ISBN-13: 978-1301646401

SYNOPSIS

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 I’m Stephanie Dagg, married to Chris for 27 years and mum to Benj (22), Caiti (19) and Ruadhri (12). We live on a 75 acre farm in rural Creuse with llamas, alpacas, pigs, sheep, poultry and three lakes full of carp. We run a fishery and gite, and also a llama trekking business. We moved here in 2006 from Ireland, where we’d lived for 15 years. Before that we lived in England. You can follow our French adventures at http://www.bloginfrance.com.

I’m an English graduate (Somerville College, Oxford) and Publishing Studies postgraduate (Stirling). I began a career in publishing in 1985 as a desk editor with Hodder and Stoughton, then I deviated from the path to become a sales rep for a couple of years for some academic presses and then an accountant. This is what meeting and marrying a guy who has a job in Newcastle does for you! Anyway, in 1992 I got back on track by becoming a freelance editor and indexer, working from home part-time around the kids. The same year we moved to Ireland.

I began to write stories for Benj, and then Caiti, and I won second prize in a contest in a magazine with one of my tales. That prompted me to begin contacting publishers. I got plenty of rejections but finally hit the right place at the right time with Mentor Press and O’Brien Press in Ireland in 1998. For the next eight years I wrote prolifically and spent many happy hours visiting schools and libraries to do workshops with kids.

Then we moved to France and I stopped writing for a while due to sheer exhaustion! Renovating a 200 year old farm that is falling apart takes a lot of effort, and so does running two businesses (running a holiday cottage and fishing lakes, and freelance editing). Life is interesting and full of challenges and we’re so glad we took the plunge and moved to France.

I have Twitter accounts @llamamum @bookeditorsteph and facebook https://www.facebook.com/stephanie.dagg

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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Monday, February 24
Review + Guest-Post + Giveaway
at Mommasez…

Tuesday, February 25
Review at Just One More Chapter

Wednesday, February 26
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway
at Words And Peace

Thursday, February 27
Review at An Accidental Blog

Friday, February 28
Review at Booksie’s Blog
Interview + Giveaway at The French Village Diaries

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