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Waking Isabella is on a world-wide book tour: Join in and win a copy!

February 24, 2018 by Melissa Muldoon Leave a Comment

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“Waking Isabella” is on an around the world book tour!

All this month “Waking Isabella” is on an around the world book tour with Laura Fabiani’s Italy Book Tours.

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After finishing my debut novel “Dreaming Sophia” which in some ways is autobiographical and tells the story of a young woman – and artist and how she ends up in Florence Italy – I knew I wanted to write another story. In the first book, my protagonist Sophia meets important personalities from Italy’s history – poets, writers, movie stars, and artists – in her daydreams.

Arezzo, a small hill town in Tuscany
is the setting of Waking Isabella

For my second book “Waking Isabella,” again I wanted to explore art and historical themes but also wanted the story to involve a bit of a mystery as well. As I have recently been spending a lot of time in Arezzo Italy, a small hill town in Tuscany leading small group language immersion programs I thought it would be a perfect setting. Not only could I take the reader to a city, not many people have heard of, but I could tell them about Arezzo’s unique jousting festival, antique fair as well the city’s traditions, and a bit of its history.

What pulled the entire story together for me, however, was an encounter I had with Isabella de’ Medici’s portrait that I ran into one day at a museum in Arezzo. I was intrigued by the look in the Medici Princesses’ eyes, and when I started doing a bit of research about her, I knew Isabella would be a perfect character to create a story around.

Discover Isabella de’ Medici’s
world in the pages of Waking Isabella!


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More details and the big reveal of the title and the author and details how to sign up for the book club will come next week in a post on the StudentessaMatta.com website... so stay tuned. 

Currently, I'm still in Italy wrapping up a very successful language program in Arezzo! We had a wonderful time!

Now I'm at the beach and currently finishing up the next book club read! LOL

What I can tell you about the novel is that it is a contemporary adventure/murder mystery set in Italy, that takes you from Monte Carlo to London and to France where two thieves board the Orient Express to Venice as they track down Casanova's diary. 

Next week you will have the chance to sign up for group book club meetings of up to 3 or 4 readers, or individual sessions. The novel is available in print and audio and it is my recommendation, with plenty of lead time to read the novel during the summer months prior to the October start date, so that we can really dive into the story, and plot, and work on grammar and idioms.

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