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Launch Day: If Paris Were My Lover by Martina Nicolls



If Paris Were My Lover: Launch Day Has Arrived!

Today is the day! If Paris Were My Lover is officially out in the world. This journey began as a whisper – a lingering question about the ways we fall in love, not just with people, but with places, memories, and the versions of ourselves that only exist in certain corners of the world. For me, that place has been Paris.

 

This book is a love affair told in fragments. It is for those who have ever wandered through a city and felt something shift deep inside. It is for those who know that some places call to us like an unfinished sentence, waiting to be completed.

 

Paris is more than a postcard or a perfect café table. It is a city that mirrors our own complexities—the contradictions of beauty and solitude, passion and melancholy, adventure and stillness. In these pages, I have woven together fiction, memories and poetry, crafting a story that invites you to ask: What if a city could love you back?

 

Early readers have called If Paris Were My Lover "a literary love letter with a heartbeat" and "a book that lingers like a favorite song on repeat." It has been described as a blend of nostalgia and possibility, of intimacy and adventure. But most of all, readers tell me how it makes them feel.

 

To mark this launch, I’d love for you to be part of the celebration:

 

Grab Your Copy – Available now in eBook and paperback on Amazon. 

 

Share the Love – If this book speaks to you, share it! Post a photo, write a review, or simply tell a friend who needs a bit of Paris in their life.

 

Connect with Me – I’d love to hear your thoughts! Let’s talk about the places that have changed us, the loves that have shaped us, and the books that have left a mark on us. Drop a comment below, send me a message.

 

Find me Substack or on facebook.

 

À Bientôt, Paris – As I launch this book, I hope it finds its way to those who need it most. I hope it reminds you that love—whether for a person, a city, or a fleeting moment—is always worth the risk. And most of all, I hope it stirs something in you, the way Paris has always stirred something in me.

 

With gratitude and excitement, Martina

 



The cover design: Twenty-five designers from 99designs by Vista competed in the book cover competition for the novel, If Paris Were My Lover. Eight designers made the semi-final poll and five competed in the final poll. Congratulations to SanjaVu who was the winning designer. Sanja is a forty-year-old Serbian graphic designer. She is the head designer for the national governmental organization “Happy Family” and works as a full-time freelancer at 99designs.




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MARTINA NICOLLS is an Australian author and international human rights-based consultant in education, healing and wellbeing, peace and stabilization, and foreign aid audits and evaluations. She lives in Paris. Her latest book is: Innovations within Constraints Handbook (2025).

 


 







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