Paris Rouge - La Clé

This key shop on rue Mouffetard always makes me smile. I love that big red key overhead. Locks are very important in Paris I've learned. Apartments have formidable locks and learning how to make them work has caused me many panicky moments.

Just a reminder that my photograph graces the cover of Juliet Blackwell's new novel, The Paris Key! 

Pinch Me

Never in my wildest dreams, when I fell in love with Paris and photography in 2007,  did I ever imagine that one day I would have one of my images on a book cover, much less a book published by Penguin Random House, set in Paris! Last week Juliet Blackwell's newest novel, The Paris Key, arrived at my doorstep with this lovely note. I started reading it immediately and was struck by so many wonderful serendipitous events that I had to share with Juliet. The story, set in the Marais at  Village St. Paul is just a few blocks from an apartment I rented in the 2010. While there, I photographed a lovely man who had KEY shop and had written a book about antique KEYS! I hope all of my friends who love Paris will order this book, and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I am.

Drum Roll.....

I am pleased (ecstatic)  to share the publication of Juliet Blackwell's new novel The Paris Key. Some of you might recognize my image with the addition of some lovely fleurs. This is of course, my first book cover and I am over the moon. I'm off to order myself a copy!