Archive: January, 2014

          Here follows an Amazon.com review of my true-crime Die in Paris.  -0- Die in Paris by author Marilyn Z Tomlins Review by: Louise McDermott, Publishing Manager, Lingua Franca Publishers   To read this book is a must for all true-crime readers. I highly recommend this true-crime. Why would I be […]

Once it was said that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Living in Paris in a high-rise apartment and therefore looking down on and into numerous apartments I know that it is not unusual for the man in the household to do the cooking here in France.  Therefore, the way to […]

The publication of my next book, a cookbook, is imminent. The raison d’être of this little book is the dozens and dozens of emails my publisher Dave Lyons and I have received from readers of my novel Bella … A French Life published in the last days of 2013. Your novel is making me so […]

It is an ooh la la story! It’s been passing from mouth to ear to mouth for some months now, but the French edition of CLOSER magazine, in its No. 448 S of 11/24 January, 2014, has now told the people of this country what is being said. It is that President François Hollande, elected […]

        It’s such a great feeling when a writer receives a good review, and right now I am experiencing that feeling.   The reason: Top-ranking Amazon.com reviewer – Susan Keefe – has just reviewed my latest book, the novel ‘Bella … A French Life’.   Do read what she has to say […]

  I think this is an ooh la la moment. France’s ‘Senate’  – the Upper House of Parliament – is today (Wednesday, January 8, 2014) to debate a law which, if voted, will reduce the activities of the American on-line bookseller, Amazon.com, on French territory. Jealousy? At Amazon.com’s globabl success? Not quite maybe, as here […]

We know her as the Winged Victory of Samothrace or the Nike of Samothrace. She is over 2,000 years old – but who asks a lady her age ever – and she’s rather tall at 2.44 metres (8 feet), but once a woman had to have flesh on her to have been considered a beauty. […]

Should you be wondering where to vacation this coming summer, stop wondering because there is just one place on earth where you ought to go: Paris. Why do I say this? After an almost six year closure for renovation our Picasso Museum is to reopen in June this year (2014). The address is Number 5 […]

Each year for the past twenty odd years France is the country most visited in the world, whereas Paris is the most visited city in the world. Statistics for 2013 have not yet been issued, but plus/minus 84 million visitors come to France annually. This Christmas/New Year season was no different. Believe me, you could […]