The Italian Holiday you need☕

It's time for a dreamy Italian Holiday

Hello friends! Just in time for Valentine's Day, I've got the perfect book! It's about Italian food and walking the rainy, February streets of Florence and riding in moonlit gondolas in Venice and Italian food and love and cappuccinos...and I'm so excited for you to read it!

So, here's how this book came to be. A few years ago, I told a friend the story of my first solo trip to visit my sister in Florence. At the end of the tale, my friend asked me why I didn’t stay in Italy. (Because at the time, I didn't have a boyfriend, car, kid or mortgage.)

To be honest, the thought never crossed my mind.

However, the question rolled around in my subconscious until a character by the name of Keats, woke me up in the middle of the night and told me this story of how she took a trip to Italy, got off the plane in Rome and had the adventure of her lifetime.

I wrote her story, but used facts from my own visits to Italy over the years, to fill in the little details. What kind of details, well...that's why you're going to read the book! Ha Ha

Another character in The Italian Holiday is Lorenzo. And while Lorenzo is a fictional character, (who may or may not resemble a movie star or two) I actually saw him last summer. A character I created, came to life, and I saw him while visiting Multnomah Falls in Oregon. I truly, for real, tripped over my feet as I stared, open-mouthed and he passed me. I apologized to the crowd around me as I fumbled for my cellphone, I had to get a picture of him. I turned back in the direction he'd gone, tripping again. Another round of apologizing and finally my phone was out and open and with shaky hands I opened the picture app, (of course it was in selfie mode) but alas when I finally got organize, Lorenzo was gone, lost in the crowd...

It's probably a good thing I have an entire book to keep his memory alive.

I have a SUPRISE just FOR YOU!!!
And I'm not telling anyone else on social media or otherwise!

The Paperback version of The Italian Holiday is available for purchase today on Amazon!

(eBook can't be released until the 7th, I don't have any control over that unfortunately.)

Get your copy HERE

There is one thing about the book that I think is important...
so important I made a 14 second video to help.
It's good, I promise. NOTE: VOLUME UP!

February in Florence

The Italian Holiday adventure starts in Florence. In February.

You know what pairs well with a book about Italy? Homemade, heart-shaped pizza!

(Yup, those are my folks in the pictures above. Aka: Barbara and Walter Dodd)

My mom celebrated the crap out of Valentine's Day! So it's a big deal in my family.

During the school years, my brother, sister and I would wake up to a special donut for breakfast from Winchell's (a California Donut chain). In our lunches, mom would put a box of candy hearts and write 'I love you' on our napkin. Nothing big, but it was always there.

For dinner, she made homemade heart-shaped pizzas (long before pizza places were doing it.) Then there was strawberry Shasta soda and a homemade heart-shaped cake.

Everyone in my family still keeps the traditions alive. So you can bet your ass, this Valentine's Day, I'm going to be pairing my new release, The Italian Holiday, with homemade heart-shaped pizzas. At this point, I believe we're celebrating an almost 50 year old tradition. (According to my mom.)

I made a collage of the yearly pizza pics we send to each other. Note: It's difficult to make pizza look sexy.

I mention all these items in The Italian Holiday. This is my first map of Florence, my first Italian phrase book and the Rick Steves book my sister's roommate gave me. Of course, I always have a notebook and a cappuccino within reach.

I talk about a lot of the behind the scenes stuff when it comes to writing and traveling in my blog.

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A little note: Self published authors wear a lot of hats. This year, I am working on growing my audience. One way I'm accomplishing this is through promotions. But did you know, that the larger promotions I would like to take part in, require the book to have at least 50 reviews on Amazon? So if you've read any of my books and enjoyed them, perhaps you could help me by leaving a review on Amazon. I'd like to truly thank you for the opportunity to entertain you!

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