Posts tagged ‘France’

France Book Tours: year 1 in numbers – 1st part

France Book Tours #Banner 1st anniversary

France Book Tours is celebrating
its first anniversary
on April 18!

 

France Book Tours has been thrilled to present amazing books related to France for a year.

Here are a few statistics:

anniversary hexagon

And 192 books were given away,
thanks to our very generous authors.

171 for blog posts,
and 21 to accompany
the Book of the Month feature

 

To organize all this,
1,533 emails were necessary.
Made manageable thanks to gmail,
its color coded labels,
and a few mega color coded google files!

 

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Come back in 4/24 for more stats!

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And don’t forget to enter our mega giveaway!
Anyone can enter to win books!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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AND THERE WILL BE 4 EXTRA BOOKS OFFERED
DURING OUR TWITTER PARTY!

April 23 at 5pm Central Time
#franceBT

Twubs available:
http://twubs.com/franceBT

Spread the word!
Let me know if you want the code for the Rafflecopter

 

First Chapter First Paragraph — The Silk Romance

first paragraphEvery Tuesday,
Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea posts the first paragraph of her current read.
Anyone can join in.
Click on the logo to link your post.

I will share here the first paragraph of a book
in the Completed Tours category.

The Silk Romance
ISBN: 978-1771273213
Published May 24th 2013
by MuseItUp Publishing

The Silk Romance is available from
Amazon UK, Amazon US, Kobo , B&N , the Muse Bookstore
and all other major e-tailers.

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A deep voice reverberated around the empty chapel, bringing Sophie to a halt in the doorway. Outside, sunlight streamed over a group of black-clad mourners lingering in the memorial gardens. For a moment, she was tempted to let her feet carry her on, to pretend she’d heard nothing and escape into the Parisian sunshine… but that would be the act of a coward. She steeled herself, casting a last, longing glance at the departing mourners before making a slow turn to face the speaker.

Author’s website | The virtual book tour

WHAT DO YOU THINK?
WOULD YOU KEEP READING?

France Book Tours stops for Nov 25-30

Taking Root in Provence

Monday, Nov 25
Guest-post + Giveaway at Patricia Sands’ Blog

Tuesday, Nov 26
Review + Giveaway at The French Village Diaries

Wednesday, Nov 27
Review + Interview at I Am, Indeed
Review + Giveaway at Enchanted by Josephine
Review + Giveaway at The Most Happy Reader

Thursday, Nov 28
Highlights at Words And Peace

Friday, Nov 29
Review + Giveaway at Turning The Pages

Saturday, Nov 30
Review + Excerpt at Jorie Loves A Story

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