Why a Booktrail?
2011: Quit your job, move to Paris and let the adventure begin….
Paris Letters
What you need to know before your trail
2011: Janice Macleod had achieved her childhood dream to work in advertising and at the age of 34 seemed to have it all. A nice job, nice house and plenty of money. But something niggled at her, that the childhood dream was no longer a dream but a life of stress.
So she packed everything up and moved to Paris for a year or so. Barely two days into her visit to the city of love, she finds love in the form of a Parisian butcher named Christophe. Should she stay or continue her travels?
The adventure wasn’t over yet and she continued to discover her new world. She sets up a painted letter subscription service to inspire people and give them something pretty to receive, selling them to fund her travels.
Janice’s illustrated story is about to be opened…
Travel Guide
Paris Letters is a record of Janice Macleod’s journey from her unhappy role in advertising in LA, to the cobbled and bread scented streets of Paris, via a little jaunt to Scotland and Italy just for good measure.
Having saved some $65,000 dollars in a year, this is perhaps not the travel budge of many people, yet the premise can be shared – travelling to expand your horizons and opening up your world in which you feel trapped. Packing up your life and moving all the way across the Atlantic ocean.
Meeting someone a few days after arrival was not what she planned but something which she welcomed. But then would this change her plans? The bug spurs her on and selling handcrafted letters on a website, stunningly illustrated by her watercolours of Paris were the ideal way to do it.
Painting the city she loved, living with the man she loves, her story is revealed showing the highs and lows of her decision. To recreate that feeling and discover the city the same time as Janice though, you can start wandering around the cafes, shops and scenes from her paintings to see the city through her eyes.
And it all starts off in the Bookshop Shakespeare and Company on the left bank in the shadows of Notre Dame…
This book was based on the author’s blog
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