Blog Tour + Top Ten List + Giveaway - Incandescently by Sylvie Parizeau

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Incandescently by Sylvie Parizeau
Publication date: October 22nd 2016
Genres: New Adult, Romance

LIAM O’SHEA, bestseller author of the SciFi saga, Eiloe.

All I knew was pain – a childhood filled with cruelty and villains who used and abused.

Until Éolie.

I first heard her sweet, angelical voice in the dark of night, when I lay bathed in my own impending death. Seventeen years later, it’s not the nightmare she pulled me out of that haunts me, but the glimpse of Happily Ever After she revealed just before disappearing.

They said she was a figment of my boundless imagination. A wish. A dream. Until I had no choice but to believe them, cherishing my imaginary savior the only way I knew how – in fiction and lore.

But fantasy has a way of transforming reality. When I finally tire of being a citizen of the world, I take an impromptu sabbatical as a professor at a small college on the coast of Maine. And there I see her, the girl with the sea-green eyes and angelic voice.

My world turns upside down. Turns out my girl is for real, and the pull between us is anything but imaginary.

Happily Ever After has a story … and this one is mine.

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 Top Ten Favourite Films

It’s always difficult for me to boil down anything to only ten favorites whenever I’m asked, but I’ll go with TOP 10 FAVORITE FILMS as the Holidays are upon us. It’s the perfect time for me to snuggle up in front of the fireplace and enjoy watching these anew as I never tire, so it seems, of doing so over and over again.

Let’s see. 10... (can I bargain for a baker’s dozen? :-D)

Pêle-mêle, in no particular order :

A walk to Remember (2002) (had to concoct three alternate endings for that one)

Endless Love (2014)

Maleficent (2014)

Jane Eyre (BBC 2006)

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

An Enchanted April (1992)

Out of Africa (1985)

And so many others…

Les Choristes

La Gloire de mon Père / le Château de ma Mère

Manon des Sources

The Lord of the Rings

Les Aventures de Tintin (2011)

And less I forget, all of Pixar animated movies as well as pretty much all of Walt Disney’s animated ones. Magic. Wonder. Laughter.

Oh, and if you wonder what’s my Top 10 Disney one? Beauty and the Beast, hands down, and I can hardly wait for the new movie to come out. I can’t seem to resist any book based on it either, come to think of it...

Feel free to visit my ‘About Me’ tab and peek under The Favorites? Toggle for more favorites of mine.

http://www.sylvieparizeau.com/about-sylvie/

Season greetings from my winter wonderland, and happy reading holidays everyone!

Sylvie xo

Author Bio

 

A paralegal by day and incurable romantic by night, Sylvie is a cross-genre, and she takes Happily Ever After very seriously. The End just isn’t in her vocabulary.

An incorrigible daydreamer, she now feeds her obsession with epilogues by concocting stories in which heroes deal with the happy from the get-go. Ready, or not. And she confesses under oath to loving every minute of it.

Sylvie lives her own Happily Ever After in the beautiful mountains of Les Laurentides in Northern Quebec, alongside her whole set of characters.

In between treks in their backyard wilderness, you can find them hanging out at www.sylvieparizeau.com

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Blog Tour + Top Ten List + Giveaway - The French Impressionist by Rebecca Bischoff

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The French Impressionist by Rebecca Bischoff
Publication date: December 6th 2016
Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult

Rosemary is fifteen and gloriously free, on her own for the very first time. Part of an exchange program for aspiring artists, she arrives in sunny southern France with a single goal: she doesn’t plan to leave, ever. She wants a new life, a new family, and a new identity. But her situation, crafted from lies big and small, is precarious.

Desperate to escape haunting images from her past and a stage one helicopter parent, Rosemary struggles to hide her lack of artistic talent and a communication disorder that has tormented her all her life. She believes her dream of a new start will come true, until she unwittingly finds herself enveloped in a decades-old mystery that threatens to ruin her only chance for success. Determined to stay, Rosemary must choose whether or not she’ll tell the biggest lie of all, even if it means destroying the life of someone she cares about.

Dramatic, heartwarming, and full of teenage angst, The French Impressionist perfectly captures the struggle of those who feel they have no voice, and also shows the courage it takes to speak up and show the world who we really are.

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Top 10 Favourite Films

What follows is an eclectic list of films I enjoy and watch over and over. 

1. The Lord of the Rings:  The Return of the King

I love how Peter Jackson imagines Tolkien’s world of men, dwarves and elves, but this particular film remains a favorite. Why?  One word: Eowyn. Best movie dialogue ever?

Witch King of Angmar: “No man can kill me.”  

Eowyn: (Removes her helmet) “I am no man.” 

She sticks her sword in his face. He dies. Huzzah!

2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Why this particular one?  I love all of the Harry Potter films, but this is my favorite. I love the time-turner, the saving of Buckbeak, the main characters’ awkward entrance into adolescence, and that scene where Hermione punches Malfoy in the nose. Plus I simply enjoy the overall feel of this film since things start to get edgier.

3.      Strictly Ballroom

 

This hilarious 1990’s Australian comedy about competitive ballroom dancers has me in stitches every time. Plus, the dancing is great and the love story is sweet. Makes me want to learn the paso doble every time I watch it.

4.      Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

I apparently have a thing for singling out a lone film from franchises that I love. So again, I love everything Star Wars, past and present, but this particular film wins my heart because of the building relationship between Han Solo and Leia, Luke’s Jedi training, and the introduction of Yoda, the coolest character ever. Plus, I was absolutely heart-broken in the theatre when Han got frozen in carbonite. How could they do that to him? (And me)?  

5.      Pride and Prejudice (BBC’s 1995 version)

Jennifer Ehle is a wonderful Lizzie, and oh, Colin Firth. He just does Mr. Darcy so well. If he hadn’t, they wouldn’t have displayed that giant “Mr. Darcy in the wet shirt” statue in Hyde Park a few years ago…

6.      Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Stop-motion animation defined my childhood. That lovable reindeer with the glowing nose and the elf who wanted to be a dentist always heralded the start of the holidays for me. *sigh* Good times!

7.      The Sound of Music

Julie Andrews is the bomb. Period, end of story. Besides, I know all the songs and will sing them if you ask, and sometimes if you don’t ask. You’ve been warned.

8.      Gravity

The science may be iffy, but the tense plot and emotional journey of Dr. Ryan as she struggles to get back to earth had me literally on the edge of my seat and holding my breath more than once.

9.      Beauty and the Beast

My favorite animated movie. A princess who loves to read? Thank you, Disney! And whoa, that library! Belle can keep her prince, I just want the books.

10.  White Christmas

I stumbled upon this gem a few years ago and fell head over heels. Bing Crosby and Danny Kay are awesome, but Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen steal the show for me. The over-the-top song and dance routines have no equal.

 

Author Bio

 

Rebecca Bischoff currently resides in Idaho with her family and works as a speech-language pathologist. She loves helping others, especially kids and teenagers, discover their own unique voices and learn to share who they are with the world. When she isn’t writing, she loves to read, spend time with her kids, and make awkward attempts to learn foreign languages. She is drawn to all things both French and Italian, used bookstores, and anything made out of chocolate.

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