Meet the Authors – In Nice!
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Saturday, May 31, 2025
3 to 5 p.m. (Doors open at 2:45 p.m.)
Le Carré d’Or (Upstairs)
1 Place Magenta
06000 Nice
Join Founder and Host Ella Dyer upstairs at Le Carré d’Or in Nice to meet a group of local authors, and to discover their books and their stories. They will talk about their recent works, read a bit from them, and answer your questions. You will have an opportunity to purchase their books and get signed copies!
Emcee of the event is Lisa Anselmo, Author, speaker, coach, and branding expert who will also share her own experiences.
Authors will have a few of their books for purchasing and signing, but to be sure, you may want to pre-order your copy and bring it with you for your own personal signed copy!
Participation is free (but we ask that you purchase at least one drink to show the host venue how much we appreciate their hospitality). Don’t miss this special event in Nice! No need to register in advance
For more information, email Ella Dyer: [email protected]
Ella Dyer, Organizer
Over the past 45 years, Ella’s varied career path has taken her from working at the Playboy Mansion to earning an MBA from The International University of Monaco.
Author of Nice in Nice, she is fond of saying “A lifetime in Nice is never enough!”
Ella and Jody, her husband of 35 years, found their flat in Nice before the introduction of the Euro. While living full-time on the Riviera, Ella focuses on helping others who want to learn about and live on la Côte d’Azur.
Founder of Meet the Authors in 2014, this annual event presents both local and international writers with a connection to France and the Côte d’Azur. This year’s event will be a wonderful way to celebrate the anniversary of the launch of her book at the Margaret Mitchell House – home to the author of Gone with the Wind – a decade later.
Nice in Nice is available via Amazon in print and digital, soon to be translated into French.
Lisa Anselmo, Emcee
Author, Speaker, Coach, and Branding Expert
Lisa Anselmo has spent most of her professional career in magazine publishing, working on such iconic brands as Allure, Mademoiselle, InStyle, and People. She’s been everything from a creative director to an opera singer, but ultimately, she has followed her passion for storytelling and inspiring people.
As a coach, Anselmo helps writers, start-ups, and individuals find passionate converts. “Whether you’re writing a book or creating a product, you have to connect on a personal level with consumers, and it has to be genuine. I work with creatives and brands to find their “soul”—their meaning, their purpose. What is the story only you can tell? You need a deep understanding of why your message matters, what you add to people’s lives. I lead you to that understanding—then get everyone to drink the same Kool-Aid.”
Anselmo started traveling to Paris regularly more than ten years ago—at first, to cover the fashion trade shows for a lifestyle website. But soon, she had cultivated friends—both Parisians and expats—and eventually built another life across the ocean. After losing her mother to breast cancer, she was motivated to make her other life official, buying an apartment in Paris’s Right Bank.
Her blog, My (Part-Time) Paris Life, chronicles her life between New York and Paris. She is the author of the memoir of the same name, published by Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, a candid story of a woman searching for hope and healing in the city she loves. Her series on Youtube showcases Parisians and expats who, like her, have taken a risk to change their lives.
Anselmo’s articles have appeared in New York magazine, AARP, Bonjour Paris, and The Local, Paris’s largest expat website. And she has been featured in New York magazine’s The Cut, Bustle, Travel + Leisure, the BBC, HGTV’s House Hunters International, Rudy Maxa’s World, and International Living.
Very involved in historic preservation in Paris, Anselmo co-founded No Love Locks, an organization that works with the mayor’s office in Paris to protect the city’s UNESCO World Heritage district currently devastated by the “love locks” tourist trend. Anselmo and No Love Locks have received international press, most notably The Today Show, BBC, CNN International, NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Associated Press, Le Parisien, and Le Monde to name a few.
Her project, Save the Paris Café, a collab celebrating Paris café culture, has been featured in Taste of France magazine, LA Times, and The Local France.
Meet the Authors…in Alphabetical Order :
Sarah Anderson
S.E. Anderson had an identity crisis when she realized she couldn’t be an astronaut—so she decided to chase the stars both on the page and in the lab with her astrophysics PhD. She’s best known for her YA co(s)mic relief series, the Starstruck Saga (Bolide), her Wizard of Oz–sci-fi retelling Over the Moon (Sea Breeze Books), and her contemporary YA novel inspired by her Provençal childhood, Aix Marks the Spot (Sea Breeze Books). Her short fiction has been featured in anthologies such as Unbound (Five Points Press), Being Ace (Page Street), and These Bodies Ain’t Broken (Page Street).
When not writing or wrangling comets at the astrophysics lab in Marseille, France, she’s busy keeping her husband and cats in a stable orbit—and pretending she’s not addicted to Instagram, where you go tell her to get back to writing at @seandersonauthor.
Whitney Cubbison
Will There Be Wine?, Will There Be Love?
Whitney Cubbison is a dual American and French Citizen living in Paris since 2009. She grew up in Texas and California and graduated from UCLA with a degree in French. She started her career in Communications working for high-tech PR agencies in San Francisco and eventually joined Microsoft where she worked for sixteen years, thirteen of which from the Paris office. During that time, she held various international roles that encompassed public relations, employee communications, executive speechwriting, and social media. She earned her French citizenship in early 2022 and left Microsoft that summer to focus on completing her first novel, Will There Be Wine?, which came out in January 2023. The story, while fiction, was deeply inspired by Whitney’s own experiences as an ex-pat divorcée living in Paris and trying to navigate the cultural minefield of dating in a foreign country. A sequel called Will There Be Love? will be out on April 29, 2025.
When she’s not writing, Whitney can be found sitting in Parisian cafés and restaurants with her friends, drinking wine.
Cécile Olivéro
Cécile Olivéro was born in Cannes. A journalist, she writes for Résidences Décoration, Côté Piscine, La Tribune Côte d’Azur, Le Journal de la Maison and many other magazines and newspapers. An avid reader, writing has always been part of her life. In the past, she has published “Barnabé veut lire” with Bordas Jeunesse (under the pseudonym Cécile Derieuw) and “Le divamour” and “Parole de puce”.
Her other interests include dancing, horse-riding, sculpture and cooking.
Drs. Suzanne Saxe-Roux and Jean P. Roux
Doctors Suzanne Saxe-Roux and Jean P. Roux have over the last thirty-five years developed, consulted, coached, and galvanized thousands of people to become the best they can be both personally and professionally. As successful professionals, entrepreneurs, and authors Suzanne and Jean, offer a motivating slant on adventuring through life’s many changes, transitions, and recommitting to live a balanced, heart-felt, and quality life. Suzanne is an Executive Coach and Leadership Development expert working with global clients, an author, speaker, and painter. Jean is a Health Psychologist and Clinical Psychotherapist working with individuals and healthcare organizations globally and is also an author and painter.
Suzanne and Jean, married and soulmates, for over 40 years, live in their forever home, 30 Km from Nimes, in Sauve, France, enjoying the scenic beauty, enchanting villages, diversity and quality of life in a captivating creative community. They are digital nomads, travel throughout Europe and globally, explore, learn, and enjoy the many lively visits from their daughter, friends, and family.
To learn more about Suzanne or Jean, their coaching, consulting, or private retreats on Discovering and Living your Dream, please visit healthyjoyfulliving.com or send an email to [email protected] or [email protected] You can join the authors on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Claudette Wells
Claudette Wells began her career as a performer as a classical pianist while at university. After graduating she switched her focus to acting, moved to Los Angeles and was successful as a series regular on the TV show Square Pegs, and had a recurring role on another sitcom, A Different World. Since that time, she has continued performing in theater, appearing in films, guest star roles in television dramas and sitcoms, and is an alumna performer of The Groundlings, LA’s foremost improvisational comedy group.
Claudette eventually transitioned from working in live theater and on-camera to further success as an in-demand voice-over actor. Ten years ago she moved from Southern California to France where the idea for Fine French Dogs was born.
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