Part-Time Parisian comes to Substack

I've been watching long enough. It's time to jump in. I hope you like my posts and my Paris thrillers.

After months as a lurker, I finally made the decision to move my blog and books website to Substack. PartTimeParisian.com has been on Wordpress a long time—long enough to have accumulated more than 8,000 followers—but recently I’ve let it languish while I completed my fourth novel and started on the fifth and sixth. Now seemed a good time to pick it up again, but on this new forum.

I intend to make this Substack a forum for comment on current affairs of all sorts, not just my own books. I'll keep you abreast of what's happening with them, but I also have a list of potential blog topics that's growing at an alarming rate.

If you're one of the members of my old mailing list, this Substack list works the same way—you can unsubscribe at any time (although I hope you won't).

My thanks to @WalterRhein for pushing me down this path early this year with his interview and article about my first novel, Treasure of Saint-Lazare, the story of one of the most blatant art thefts of World War II, a true mystery that has never been solved. The book caught Walter’s eye when he noticed that it had more than 1,000 ratings and reviews on Amazon.

It's the origin story of Eddie Grant and his early days as a college student in Texas, his time as a decorated US Special Forces commander in the First Gulf War, and the subsequent business success in his home town of Paris, which made him a billionaire. And he does odd jobs for the CIA. And he found the love of his life. It's quite romantic.

I was gratified when Readers’ Favorite chose Treasure as the best historical mystery of its year. It’s always available free to KDP Select members, plus paper, hard cover and audio versions. You can find it here.

The Final Heist, a turbocharged story of romance, murder, stolen gold and merciless justice meted out during a running gun battle aboard an old ship crossing the Med, closed out the series last year (see it here). Since then I’ve been working on two new books featuring an expanded cast of characters and more contemporary plots (although I suspect I will never get away from World War II entirely, and certainly never from Paris).

Click the button below to see the entire series.

In the meantime, my wife Jan and I have been really busy moving from Florida to Washington, DC, where we met and married as young journalists. We both lived near Dupont Circle, and that's where we've returned. It’s a different place now and a still more exciting place to live.

I plan to keep the publication title Part-Time Parisian because it’s familiar and I haven’t thought of a better one, although a writer friend who lives in Paris suggested "Pearce on Paris,” which does have a ring. If you have any thoughts or ideas on that, please mention them in comments.

PartTimeParisian is about Paris, where we spend several months most years. A good many of my old posts imported well into Substack, but I still have some pruning and cleaning up to do, mainly of photos, which will happen over the coming days. But to give you a feel for what I blog about, I’ve updated an old one, which you can find here. It's about crossing the Wall through Checkpoint Charlie on one Veterans Day, and the cultural friction between us and the Vopo border guard, who turned out to be a decent guy.

My Substack is free: For now there's no subscription paywall, although of course that might ultimately change.