Hi lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host
Melissa Muldoon and her new book, “Dreaming Sophia”!
Be sure to make it to the end of this post to enter to
win a $10 Amazon Gift Card to ONE lucky winner!
In addition, TWO more lucky winners will win a copy of the featured
book!! That’s right!! There will be THREE lucky winners in this
giveaway!!! Also, come back daily to
interact with Melissa and to increase your chances of winning!
Thanks for stopping by! Wishing you lots of luck in this fabulous
giveaway!
Dreaming Sophia
By Melissa Muldoon
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GENRE: Italian Contemporary Romance
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BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Dreaming
Sophia is a magical look into Italy, language, art, and culture. It is a story
about turning dreams into reality and learning to walk the fine line between
fact and fantasy. When tragedy strikes, Sophia finds herself alone in the
world, without direction and fearful of loving again. With only her vivid
imagination to guide her, she begins a journey that will take her from the
vineyards in Sonoma, California to a grad school in Philadelphia and,
eventually, to Italy: Florence, Lucca, Rome, Verona, Venice, and Val d’Orcia.
Through
dreamlike encounters, Sophia meets Italian personalities—princes, poets,
duchesses, artists, and film stars— who give her advice to help put her life
back together. Following a path that takes her from grief to joy, she discovers
the source of her creativity and learns to love again, turning her dreams into
reality.
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BOOK TRAILER:
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AUTHOR BIO:
Melissa Muldoon is the Studentessa
Matta-the crazy linguist! In Italian, "matta" means "crazy"
or "impassioned". Melissa has a B.A. in fine arts, art history and
European history from Knox College, a liberal arts college in Galesburg,
Illinois, as well as a master's degree in art history from the University of
Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She has also studied painting and art history in
Florence.
Melissa
promotes the study of Italian language and culture through her dual-language
blog, Studentessa Matta (studentessamatta.com). Melissa began the Matta blog to
improve her command of the language and to connect with other language
learners. It has since grown to include a podcast, "Tutti Matti per
l'Italiano" and the Studentessa Matta YouTube channel. Melissa also
created Matta Italian Language Immersion Tours, which she co-leads with Italian
partners in Italy.
Dreaming
Sophia is Melissa's first novel. It is a fanciful look at art history and
Italian language and culture, but it is also the culmination of personal
stories and insights resulting from her experiences living in Italy, as well as
her involvement and familiarity with the Italian language, painting, and art history.
As
a student, Melissa lived in Florence with an Italian family. She studied art
history and painting and took beginner Italian classes. When she returned home,
she threw away her Italian dictionary, assuming she'd never need it again but
after launching a successful design career and starting a family, she realized
something was missing in her life. That "thing" was the connection
she had made with Italy and the friends who live there. Living in Florence was
indeed a life-changing event! Wanting to reconnect with Italy, she decided to
start learning the language again from scratch. As if indeed possessed by an
Italian muse, she bought a new Italian dictionary and began her journey to
fluency-a path that has led her back to Italy many times and enriched her life
in countless ways.
Now,
many dictionaries and grammar books later, she dedicates her time to promoting
Italian language studies, further travels in Italy, and sharing her stories and
insights about Italy with others. When Melissa is not traveling in Italy, she
lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is married and has three boys and two
beagles.
Melissa
designed and illustrated the cover art for Dreaming Sophia. She also designed
the Dreaming Sophia website and created the character illustrations that can be
found in the book and on the Dreaming Sophia websites.
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TOUR SCHEDULE:
Feb
20 - Essentially Italian - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb
20 - Leigh Anderson Romance - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb
20 - Teresa Edmond-Sargeant - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb
21 - Books, Dreams, Life - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb
21 - Mystery Suspense Reviews - book spotlight
Feb
21 - Library of Clean Reads - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb
22 - BookRoom Reviews - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb
22 - Puddletown Reviews - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb
22 - StormyNights Reviewing & Bloggin' - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb
23 - Paulette's Papers - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb
23 - Book Lover in Florida - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb
24 - Celticlady's Reviews - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb
24 - T's Stuff - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb
24 - Fabulous and Brunette - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb
27 - A Mama's Corner of the World - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb
27 - StoreyBook Reviews - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb
27 - Carole's Book Corner - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb
28 - 100 pages a day - book spotlight / giveaway
Feb
28 - Kristin's Novel Cafe - book spotlight
March
1 - Hall Ways - book spotlight / giveaway
March
1 - Deal Sharing Aunt - book spotlight / giveaway
March
2 - Zerina Blossom's Books - book spotlight / giveaway
March
2 - Suko's Notebook - book spotlight
March
3 - Haddie's Haven - book spotlight / giveaway
March
3 - Monica Cesarato - book spotlight / giveaway
March
6 - My Journey Back - book spotlight / giveaway
March
6 - A Holland Reads - book spotlight / giveaway
March
6 - FUONLYKNEW
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March
7 - The Book Drealms - A Book Addict's Travelogue - spotlight / giveaway
March
7 - A Soccer Mom's Book Blog - book spotlight / giveaway
March
7 - Turning the Pages - book spotlight / giveaway
March
8 - Words And Peace - book spotlight / giveaway
March
9 - Cheryl's Book Nook - book spotlight / giveaway
March
9 - Travelling Through Words - book spotlight
March
10 - Bound 2 Escape - book spotlight / giveaway
March
10 - Jessica Cassidy - book spotlight / giveaway
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GIVEAWAY:
Melissa is awarding a $10 Amazon Gift Card to
one winner. In addition, two more
winners will win a copy of her featured book, “Dreaming Sophia.” There will be three winners in total. If the winner is a US or CA resident then a print
copy will be provided. If the winner is
an INTL resident then an ebook will be provided. This giveaway ends on March 18, 2017.
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Melissa ~ It is great to have you here! Congrats on your new book and good luck on the book tour! :)
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