Dispatch from Danielle Trussoni - July 2024 (The Giveaway Newsletter!)
Hello from Paris, where I am spending the month doing research. Paris is one of my favorite cities (tied with New York), and I’m hoping to set a novel here: Maybe the next one; maybe the one after.
I’ve always loved visiting foreign cities, but Paris is special. I first came here at sixteen, and it was my first experience of leaving the Midwest (let alone the United States). What an incredible shock that was. I remember feeling like Alice in Wonderland– the food, the architecture, the art, the people. All of it was wonderful and strange and made me feel that I needed to know more.
Who would have guessed that years later I’d be married to a Frenchman?
And that I’d be communicating with my parents-in-law in French for days at a time, reading books in French, and eating the most incredible cherries bought at the Marché de Saxe?
The other reason I’m here is that the paperback of THE PUZZLE MASTER (LA MAÎTRE DES ÉNIGMES) is out in French. It was so cool to find it in a bookstore off the Boulevard Saint Germaines the other day!
If you haven’t read THE PUZZLE MASTER, here’s a way to win a free copy….
GIVEAWAYS!!
I am counting down the days until THE PUZZLE BOX is published. To share the excitement, I’ve decided to do a giveaway.
If you’d like to win one of five SIGNED hardcover copies of THE PUZZLE MASTER, follow the directions below:
Add THE PUZZLE BOX to your Goodreads shelf OR share a photo on your social media of THE PUZZLE MASTER or THE PUZZLE BOX (I’m attaching an image of THE PUZZLE BOX to this message!)
Email me a screenshot of the Goodreads add or shared photo at dtrussoniassistant@gmail.com
Get an extra entry by preordering THE PUZZLE BOX and emailing dtrussoniassistant@gmail.com a screenshot of your preorder. P.S. You can preorder THE PUZZLE BOX through Barnes and Noble for 25% off from 7/10-7/17 using code PREORDER25 at checkout.
Go For Gold Challenge Giveaway
Over on Instagram, a few of my bookstagrammer friends are hosting an Olympics style giveaway. It runs from July 1 - August 11 and the first, second, and third place winners have a chance to win THE PUZZLE MASTER, ONE LAST SHOT by Betty Cayouette, or CURSED BY SPLENDOR by Michelle Moras. Check out this post on Instagram for the full rules.
Goodreads Giveaway
Goodreads users! Keep tabs on this Goodreads page for THE PUZZLE BOX, as there will be a giveaway to win a copy of THE PUZZLE BOX starting July 15th! This is a great way to get your hands on a copy.
TruReader of the Month
As a continuation of a newer feature in the newsletter, here is the next installment of Reader of the Month. Each month I’ll feature one of my extraordinary readers. If you’d like to be featured, write to me at danielle@danielletrussoni.com.
Please say hello to Kristin!
Kristin is on Instagram as @katscreations614 and has her own Etsy where she makes digital journals and planners, and her most popular- reading journals
Q) What are your favorite kinds of books to read?
A) I love books that hook my attention right away, make me feel emotions and have amazing plot and characters! I love audiobooks so much- best reading discovery ever! my favorite genres are thrillers, romance, fantasy, contemporary and historical fiction.
Q) What are some of your hobbies and passions?
A) I love watching movies (when I’m not reading), watching soccer (Go Liverpool) and hanging out with my family.
Q) Why do you love to read?
A) I love reading because it takes me into different realities and world besides by own. I started a book club on Facebook and IG called Kats Booknerds with over 1000 people! We create different reading challenges, read different books by genre and diversity each month. I have loved reading since I was little and I am so happy there is such a huge bookish community to share my passion with!!
Thanks for joining us this month!
Q&A
Finally, I opened the floor to my friends on social media again this month to take any questions about my new books or the writing/reading/publishing world at large. If you have a question you want me to answer, send an email to dtrussoniassistant@gmail.com.
Q) What do you do after you finish writing a book and before the book is published? Are you working on the next project? Or do you keep your focus on the book that’s coming out soon?
A) I’m actually living through this period right now. I’ve finished THE PUZZLE BOX at the end of 2023, and it will be coming out the fall of 2024, and so I’ll have eight or so months between turning in the new book and promoting it. I’ve always found this period of quiet before publication a bit disorienting. My mind is still on the book that’s coming out, but there isn’t much I can do other than preparing for the publication. I try to get people excited about the new book (one example of this is the giveaway I mentioned above), but mostly I prepare to write something new.
Earlier this year, I wrote a draft of a novella in the world of Angelology, which was fun, but strange. As you might know, I haven’t written about those characters in a long time, and finding them again wasn’t easy. I’m revising that novella now, and am planning to send it to you– readers of this newsletter– first! Next month I’ll be sending out details about how you can get an exclusive (and free!) copy of this novella. Come back next month for all the details.
Thank you for spending your time with me. For updates, join me on my website, and across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Yours,
Danielle
thats its because, (i really don t konw) you don t know Buenos Aires