Chaperoning Paris Blitz [June 22-28]

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Chaperoning Paris

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Gigi Dumont never forgot how she walked away from the only man she ever love. 

She’s a teacher who has led her students to the finals of an international French competition to be help in Paris. The night before the trip, the Principal tries to cancel the trip before he, in turn, loses his job to her high school boyfriend, Sean Collins.

Sean Collins has survived cancer, a divorce , and Gigi having aborted their child back in high school. He assumed he’d hate her, if they ever crossed paths again. But he discovers she’s exactly what he wants.

When Gigi and Sean are stuck together for a week in Paris, Gigi feels she has lost all her control. How can she survive her attraction to Sean? The man’s sexier now than he was back in the day, and once upon a time, he’d had her heart. She finds herself falling for him, even knowing forever is impossible.

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Victoris Pinder

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Victoria Pinder grew up in Irish Catholic Boston before moving to the Miami sun. She’s worked in engineering, after passing many tests proving how easy Math came to her. Then hating her life at the age of twenty four, she decided to go to law school. Four years later, after passing the bar and practicing very little, she realized that she hates the practice of law. She refused to one day turn 50 and realize she had nothing but her career and hours at a desk. After realizing she needed change, she became a high school teacher. Teaching is rewarding, but writing is a passion.

During all this time, she always wrote stories to entertain herself or calm down. Her parents are practical minded people demanding a job, and Victoria spent too many years living other people’s dreams, but when she sat down to see what skill she had that matched what she enjoyed doing, writing became so obvious. The middle school year book when someone wrote in it that one day she’d be a writer made sense when she turned thirty.

Besides her full time job of teaching, in 2013 and 2014, she sold on her own sold books to three different publishers. The Zoastra Affair, Chaperoning Paris, Borrowing the Doctor, and Electing Love will be published from Soul mate Publishing. Mything the Throne will be published with Double Dragon Ebooks. Favorite Coffee, Favorite Crush will be published with Jupiter Press.

Now she is represented by Dawn Dowdle of Blue Ridge Literary Agency and she hopes to continue selling her novels that she writes. Moving up to the next level from hard work and determination is rewarding, and partnerships bring new opportunities.

Also she’s the Vice President of Programs for the Florida Romance Writers. She’s gone to multiple conferences and intends to continue. She learns and meets so many people at conferences. Her website is www.victoriapinder.com, and she’ll continue to grow my web presence. She is working hard on other projects and found the time to plan her wedding this year.

Before writing, her father had taken her to many star trek conventions and on her own she grew up as the only girl in the 90s at the comic book store. Science Fiction was her first love, but contemporary romance was her second. She’s sticking with contemporaries for the near future.

Member of Florida Romance Writers, Contemporary Romance, Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal chapter of RWA, Celtic Hearts and Savvy Authors.

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Struggling second-hand bookshop owner stunned when his takings soar 4,000 per cent as dozens of customers descend on store after posting about his plight on Facebook

A struggling second-hand bookshop owner who wrote about his dwindling profits on Facebook in a last-ditch attempt to keep his business afloat has seen his sales figures soar.

David Ford found he was steadily losing business – making only around £14 a day at his store in Saltaire, West Yorkshire – thanks to the popularity of online bookstores such as Amazon as well as the rise of the e-book.

Realising his shop was in trouble, Mr Ford posted his takings online alongside a cry for help and was amazed by the response.

Sales for most bookshops have been dwindling but David Ford is confident he can keep his store open

In just one day he raked in more than 40 times the amount he had made only a few days earlier.

Mr Ford said: ‘Now, we have to be more clever about how we sell books. We sell online and we use social media and do all sorts to survive.’

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The bookseller, who is also the chairman of the Saltaire Traders Association, went on to say: ‘The point I’m making is if people don’t use local shops, then they will disappear.

‘Independent shops are part of a community, which will be lost if they are forced to close as people choose to buy online or in supermarkets.
'There has been a decline and we have to work harder to get people through the doors.’

David Ford in his bookshop that has been saved from dwindling sales by social media

Second-hand bookshop owner stunned as takings soar

The Facebook status plea that re-invigorated the bookshop's business

Speaking about his decision to appeal for help online, he said: ‘It was a particularly hard week last week. Many people earn four times as much as us shopkeepers do.

‘I put something on Facebook to say this is the reality of it, this is what we earn, to try and encourage people to use their local shops and services. It was a very positive response.’

He added: ‘There is something wonderful and unique about books. I’m certain they will never go away. We want to get people into books but this won’t happen without bookshops.’

David Ford was amazed by the response when he posted about his shop's takings on Facebook

Mr Ford has had to embrace the digital age to help with sales at his second-hand bookshop

Figures show that in 2012, 73 independent bookshops closed and 29 opened, according to membership figures from the Booksellers Association. 

And around one-third of independent bookshops closed in the last seven years. Lisa Campbell – from trade magazine The Bookseller – believes that despite independent booksellers being squeezed by online retailers, increases in rent and business rates, many are trying to fight back.

She said: ‘Holding events such as author signing, book group sessions and poetry readings are key to their sustainability in their local communities, as is offering expert knowledge on books and recommendations.
They rely on customer loyalty to thrive and many do buck the trend when they get this right.’

Ford has piles of books that remain unsold and has turned to the internet to help with sales