Janice MacLeod

The author recounts how, after giving up her corporate job as an art director, she moved to Paris, embarked on a romance with a Frenchman who spoke no English, and found a way using her artistic and writing skills to fund her dream of staying there permanently.

Paris Letters

Part memoir and part visual journey through the streets of modern-day Paris, France, A Paris Year chronicles, day by day, one woman’s French sojourn in the world’s most beautiful city. Beginning on her first day in Paris, Janice MacLeod, the author of the best-selling book, Paris Letters, began a journal recording in illustrations and words, nearly every sight, smell, taste, and thought she experienced in the City of Light. The end result is more than a diary: it’s a detailed and colorful love letter to one of the most romantic and historically rich cities on earth. Combining personal observations and anecdotes with stories and facts about famous figures in Parisian history, this visual tale of discovery, through the eyes of an artist, is sure to delight, inspire, and charm.

My Day-to-Day Adventures in the Most Romantic City in the World

A Paris Year

Be transported to the banks of the Seine, a corner boulangerie, or beneath the Eiffel Tower with these beautifully illustrated vignettes of life in the City of Light. What began as a way to fund travel became ten years of a letter subscription service delivering thousands of painted letters to subscribers who delight in fun mail! Eat, Pray, Love meets Claude Monet in this epistolary ode to Paris. What started as a whim in a Latin Quarter café blossomed into Janice MacLeod's yearslong endeavor to document and celebrate life in Paris, sending monthly snippets of her paintings and writings to the mailboxes of ardent followers around the world. Now, Dear Paris collects the entirety of the Paris Letters project: 140 illustrated messages discussing everything from macarons to Montmartre. For readers familiar with the city, Dear Paris is a rendezvous with their own memories, like the first time they walked along the Champs-Élysées or the best pain au chocolat they've ever tasted. But it's about more than just a Paris frozen in nostalgia; the book paints the city as it is today, through elections, protests, and the World Cup--and through the people who call it home. Wistful, charming, surprising, and unfailingly optimistic, Dear Paris is a vicarious visit to one of the most iconic and beloved places in the world.

The Paris Letters Collection

Dear Paris

One Woman's Journey from the Fast Lane to a Slow Stroll in Paris

When Janice Macleod arrived in Paris, she brought her talents for writing, illustration and photography with her. She also met Christophe, who became her reason to stay in Paris. In A Paris Year, Janice charts the moods, changes and charms of Paris through her words, paintings and photos. The book is set over the course of a calendar year and it covers food, buildings, historical figures, places of interest and local characters. There is Hemingway, Robespierre, the author's local boulangerie, flea markets, what Paris is like when the locals come home after la rentree, a handy cheat sheet to help you distinguish Napoleon B from Napoleon III, macaron day and Le Bon Marche. In short: all the details of Paris that can be missed but which make the city unique and captivating.

My Day-To-Day Adventures in the Most Romantic City in the World

Marni Kamis

A women’s common-sense guide to dating, from the authors of The Breakup Repair Kit. Whatever happened to the great Saturday night date you looked forward to all week? Is it true “all the good ones are already taken?” Do you feel your life is on hold until you meet just the right person and ride white horses off into the Technicolor sunset? If even one of those thoughts has flickered through your mind after a nightmarish blind date, bitter breakup, or speed-dating bump, this book is for you! Authors Marni Kamins and Janice Macleod offer the wisdom and comfort of their own expertise and show you exactly how to have the fabulous love life you deserve. Praise for The Dating Repair Kit “This book is honest, inspiring, supportive, and funny—it truly is a girlfriend you can fit in your purse.” —Elizabeth Carr & Theresa Hoiles, authors of Love, Luck and Love “Like good friends, Marni and Janice share their strengths and help you find your own. This little book inspires you to take the leap of faith called love.” —Stephanie Naman, author of BarCode “The Dating Repair Kit will prove to be the definitive playbook for the ‘game of love.’” —Margie Lapanja, author of Food Men Love and Romancing the Stove

How to Have a Fabulous Love Life

The Dating Repair Kit

What do you do when your great life-plan works out, and you're still unhappy? Successful, but on the verge of burnout, Janice MacLeod saved enough money to buy herself two years of freedom in Europe. Days into her stop in Paris, she met Christophe, and her fate was sealed. Forced to find a way to fund her expat future, Janice created a painted letter subscription service, sending out thousands of letters to people who are hungry to receive something beautiful. Paris Letters is the inspiring story of a woman who dared to discover a life she could love.

A post-breakup guide for women to help you get over your broken heart, get it together, and get back in the game. Breaking up may be hard to do, but with The Break-up Repair Kit, it can be a lot of fun. Packed with activities, inspiration, advice, and even recipes, this book is like a wise and hilarious girlfriend who can help anyone get over him and get a life. Whether you’re the dump-er or the dump-ee in the former relationship, authors Kamins and MacLeod help you get over your broken heart, get it together, and get back in the game. Inside, authors Marni Kamins and Janice MacLeod offer such sage advice and inspirations that you might find being single again a chance to get to know yourself better and reach parts of yourself you’d forgotten about. Cry yourself a river and write him a letter you’ll never send. Feel the emotions ranging from sadness to denial and anger without losing yourself to them. Rediscover what you love to do and take yourself on the date of your life. Then hop back in that saddle and find the next cowboy . . . Praise for The Breakup Repair Kit “This book is a treasure. Marni and Janice prove that heartbreak can be a road back to yourself and an opportunity to grow. With their wise, fun suggestions and compassionate understanding, you’ll feel like you have two new best friends to support you from the “breakup” to the “breakthrough.”“ —Iyanla Vanzant, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Get Over It! “Geared toward women in their 20s and 30s, this heartening little book is the perfect remedy for the friend who can’t seem to get over her failed relationship.” —Publishers Weekly

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