Comments on: REVIEW: Blame it on Paris by Laura Florand

By: REVIEW: Transformed into the Frenchman’s Mistress by Barbara Dunlop | Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary

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[...] A friend of mine married her Frenchman so when I see books with French heroes, I check them out. Since I’ve found that the Desire line tends towards less assholic heroes, I decided to give “Transformed into the Frenchman’s Mistress” a shot. If there was anything Charlotte Hudson had learned in her twenty-five years, it was how to be proper. So how had the ambassador’s granddaughter ended up on a wild movie assignment, ensconced in a centuries-old Provençal castle with notorious French playboy Alec Montcalm? While her relatives from Hudson Pictures were busy filming at Chateau Montcalm, the real drama was going on behind the antique wooden doors–beneath satin sheets. Charlotte knew their crazy, scandalous secret liaison wouldn’t last. And then she discovered she was pregnant…. [...]

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Dear Author.Com | Keep Those Nominations Coming — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:12:07 +0000

[...] And, if you aren’t tired of us yet, you can read all about how we got started and what we think of this whole blogging gig at Laura Florand’s site. She wrote Blame it On Paris which Jayne loved. [...]

By: Jayne

Jayne — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:50:47 +0000

It was my luck to find it in the first place and my pleasure to talk it up. I’m so glad you enjoyed it too. :)

By: Tara Marie

Tara Marie — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:45:12 +0000

Jayne, I read this one over the weekend. What a fun read. And your review is perfect. Thanks for finding this one!!

By: Laura Florand

Laura Florand — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:28:36 +0000

No! I got all excited and hopeful about the blue, but the art director gently explained to me all of blue’s photographic faults and that they had chosen a gray background so by colors she really meant either pink or green. Which was, of course, a change from when Sebastien says “colors”, by which he usually means beige or gray. But I’m beginning to think there is an anti-blue conspiracy going on around me.

Can’t wait to meet you! Fine chocolate it is.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:13:49 +0000

Let me guess, you wore something blue? Finally, did someone let you wear something blue? ;) Yep, I’m in this area, have been for years. I’ll check your blog for future appearances. I’d love to meet you for a glass of plonk and some fine chocolate!

By: Laura Florand

Laura Florand — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:10:27 +0000

Don’t you dare mention that Parisian woman! I am still deeply aggrieved that the publication, meaning public appearances, was timed for 5 months after I had a baby. True, initially I thought I would be in tip-top shape again in only a couple of months, but that idea turned out to be…false. I had to do a photo shoot for a women’s magazine three months after my baby was born, one of those magazines with anorexic models on the cover, and once the issue is out I’ll blog about the art director’s careless instructions just “to wear something sexy…in bright colors…nothing black…no prints…preferably silk…but most important, something sexy” and my desperate trips to the mall. Trust me, you do NOT want to be staring at yourself in multiple dressing room mirrors, trying to find something you can look “sexy” in for a major woman’s magazine when you are 2 months postpartum! Unless you’re Parisian, of course; my mother-in-law was back in shape in a month.

I didn’t know you were in my area! That would be fun to meet you. I’m not doing any signings in December, mostly because stores don’t set up many signings so close to Christmas, but maybe in January.

And thank you, Tara Marie. :)

By: Tara Marie

Tara Marie — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:57:55 +0000

This sounds fabulous, I’m ordering it today!!

By: Jayne

Jayne — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:34:37 +0000

Bienvenue Laura! Congratulations on the birth of your daughter. I’m sure you’re already hard at work looking like Claudia Schiffer again, right? Mustn’t get slack just because of diaper changing. Remember the Parisian woman in the high heeled boots. I’d love to go to one of the uncles’ parties and I’m sure with my 24 years old high-school French classes a distant memory in the crevices of my brain, I wouldn’t understand a word. ;)

Do you plan on having any more book signings? I’m sorry I missed the two around here but since I didn’t know your book existed then, I deny all responsibility! Please, please say I get a second chance. I’ll bring chocolate….

By: Laura Florand

Laura Florand — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:21:46 +0000

What a fun review! Normally I don’t like reading my reviews, because even when they’re very positive, there’s something so remote about them. But you hooked me with this one. I was laughing and thinking you would, in fact, be a great addition to one of the uncles’ parties. So let me know when you go to France! :) (Although, about the uncles’ parties: Sebastien just read the review, too, and also laughed and laughed, but ESPECIALLY when you mentioned it might be possible to find his uncles’ farmhouse with a GPS. He seemed to think you were just a tad optimistic about that one.)

Thanks so much. I’m glad you enjoyed it. And I am very deeply flattered to share the same grade with Lois McMaster Bujold.