I searched the internet for weeks, listening to French music, trying to choose a song for my book trailer. When I heard “Imposture” by Danielle Pauly, from the album Café de Paris, my heart lurched. I loved the melody, but what did the title mean in French? Quickly, I looked up the translation for “Imposture.” Hee-hee, it means “fraud.” The song was perfect.

The year is 1979, and twenty-one-year-old Linda Kovic is disenchanted with her current career as a medical assistant. Yearning for more excitement and adventure in her life, she pursues other careers. Her tenacity lands her an interview for a flight attendant position, but her hopes are crushed when she learns they require her to speak a second language. Undaunted, Linda decides to learn French and pursues a position as an au pair in France. In order to secure a position with an aristocratic family in the Loire Valley, she lies and pretends to speak the language. Once she arrives at her destination, Linda soon discovers that her expectations are very different from those of her unforgiving employer.

About four years ago, after my husband and I dropped our youngest daughter off at college, I went through a sort of mid-life crisis. I missed being a mom and I wondered how I would fill the void. Sure I had my part-time bookkeeping business, but it consumed only a few hours a day and it wasn’t interesting any more. Something was missing? But what?

EBook now available at iBookstore, Kobo, Sony, Baker & Taylor, Copia and Barnes & Noble.

Yipee! After weeks of fussing with formatting, my debut memoir is now available in ebook at Amazon. In a few weeks it will be accessible in other formats, such as Barnes & Noble, iBook, Sony, Kobo, Baker and Taylor and Copia. This bargain price won’t last forever, so download your copy today!

Phew, I can’t believe I did it! It’s taken me a little over three years, but my debut memoir is finally complete and available at Amazon and Barnes & Nobel. My eBook is coming soon for a bargain price of 99¢. I’ll be posting to a weekly blog once I catch my breath, so stay tuned!