PARIS CRAVINGS is here!!! A delicious, gorgeous romance novel set in Paris!

While you're waiting for November 4th to read FORBIDDEN, the launch of my Young Adult trilogy with Harpercollins (STUNNING cover has arrived and there will be a *cover reveal* in two weeks!) read my brand new contemporary romance set in Paris--it's got pastries and romance and kissing! 

I love the cover by Claudia at www.phatpuppyart.com and Stephanie Herrera did the fonts and sparklies. She also did a fabulous back cover, too. Scroll down to see and enter the big giveaway! I'm giving away lots of books and bookmarks. There are about 35 bloggers doing my Cover Reveal and Launch today! Thank you to everyone so much!

 About PARIS CRAVINGS: 

Can life really turn on a dime—
a missed bus— 
or a stuck pastry shop door? 

Chloe Dillard’s life has always been complicated. She has a mother who is a neurotic romance novelist and a boyfriend who’s been pressuring her to go all the way. After The Worst Night of Her Life Chloe escapes on a trip to the swoon-worthy city of Paris where she becomes stranded after an accident with high heels and a pastry box.

Saved by a French boy with chocolate-brown eyes, Chloe begins to wonder if being lost in Paris is the chance of a lifetime. But as attracted as she is to the gorgeous and oh-so-kind La Patisserie shop boy—even he has a girlfriend.

The police are tracking her down, Mom’s having a nervous breakdown when she goes missing, and Chloe just wants to have her dream of a happily-ever-after.

What’s a girl to do in the most romantic city in the world? 

Book on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20326834-paris-cravings

About Kimberley Montpetit: 

Kimberley once spent all her souvenir money at the La Patisserie shops when she was in Paris—on the arm of her adorable husband. The author grew up in San Francisco, another swoon-worthy city, loves all things Parisian and chocolate and lives in a small town along the Rio Grande with her family.

Kimberley has won many awards for her work, including the Southwest Book Award, the Whitney Award, the Arizona/New Mexico Book Award, is a Crystal Kite Finalist (SCBWI) and included in the Bank Street College Best Books of the Year.

She once stayed in a haunted castle tower room at Borthwick Castle in Scotland, sailed on the Seine in Paris, walked the beaches of Normandy, eaten in numerous French cafes, ridden a camel in Petra, Jordan, sunbathed on Waikiki, shopped the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, and spent the night in an old Communist hotel in Bulgaria. 

She adores all baked goodies; brownies, éclairs, donuts, tarts, and pie, and makes a lot of chocolate chip cookies while revising.

Kimberley is, of course, hard at work on her next novel (s).

 Social Media Links:

Website: http://www.kimberleymontpetit.comhttp://www.kimberleymontpetit.comhttp://www.kimberleymontpetit.com 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KimberleyMontpetit?ref=hl 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KimberMontpetit 

On Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7706420.Kimberley_Montpetit (There's also a 10 book giveaway on Goodreads going on right now! Hurry over and add the book and enter!)

Buy Links:

Amazon:  
http://www.amazon.com/Paris-Cravings-Pastry-Novel-ebook/dp/B00I36JI8I/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1390915002&sr=1-1

B&N Nook:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/paris-cravings-kimberley-montpetit/1118357739?ean=2940148188605

Kobo:
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/books/Paris-Cravings/rceBoTvZ10KyaWcIdcL9VQ?MixID=rceBoTvZ10KyaWcIdcL9VQ&PageNumber=1
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/401989 

ENTER TO WIN ONE OF 5 BEAUTIFUL PRINT COPIES OF PARIS CRAVINGS plus stunning Book Club Cards (like bookmarks!) 15 People will win a batch of Book Cards to share with friends.

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P.S. Through family genealogy we discovered that the surname of "Montpetit"is our original name - direct from France to Quebec in the 1650s and then into the USA after the Civil War. The *perfect* romantic pen name for books set in Paris - mais oui?!

Enjoy PARIS CRAVINGS: A Paris and Pastry Novel (there's a recipe, too!) and the print book is GORGEOUS! 

Warmly, 
Kimberley

I can't keep a secret

I was going to wait until things were more official, but . . . I got an offer of representation from an agent last week and we're having a phone interview next week!!!!!!!!!

After 18 months of querying, stopping to revise, querying, revising (on my own that is) it's finally happened!

So I contacted all the other agents who had fulls and partials and they are all madly reading (and some asked for more - since I just finished my In a Paris Minute novel two weeks ago!) . . . I'm excited and nervous and sort of dazed.

Please pray for me that I won't sound like an idiot on the telephone. ;-D

Movie Update!

I've been traveling the past couple of weeks and now I'm getting ready for some family to drop in on us for a week. I thought I'd better write a blog before I forget how!

WHAT A CRAZY SUMMER THIS HAS BEEN! Seems like everyone I talk to has had the same kind of nuttiness in their lives.

So about the movie and the producer . . . I heard back from him very quickly, unlike the book publishing business where your manuscripts get sucked into a black hole without a map.

The good news: He *loved* the story and my writing and my characters!!!

The bad news: He has a very small budget and doesn't produce historicals because they are way too expensive and mine is time-travel and involves snakes and horses and 16th century armor and guns and cannons.

The good news: He emailed again to assure me that he wants to see more treatments from me and would love to work with me - meaning he wants to buy a movie from me. Just send him a contemporary Southwestern story.

Uncertain news: I gotta come up with a new idea and write it!!! No problemo. Think, brain, think.

Good news redux: My *movie* friend has more potential producers to send the completed treatment of The Last Snake Runner to - yay! And we're brainstorming new ideas tomorrow.

More good news: I did three more revision rounds on my YA novel, IN A PARIS MINUTE - and an editor at Candlewick wants me to send it to her so she can read it during her vacation next week! Now *that's* something that doesn't happen very often!

Gooder news: The manuscript was sent today at 2:51p.m. via email attachment.

I'm trying to catch up on blogs now . . . and I'm sinking fast . . . hope you're all good though!

French Pastries to die for

Here's a link to my French trip on my web site if you'd like to take a peek. There are too many to post here.

Near the bottom is an example of the fabulous French pastries we ate every day.

The awesome thing was, we walked so much for those two weeks I didn't gain a single pound even though I ate these every day.

http://kimberleygriffithslittle.com/content/blogcategory/18/17/

Au revoir and have a great weekend!