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Janet Skeslien Charles has lived in Paris since 1999. She enjoys reading, traveling, and spending time with her family in Montana and South Carolina. She is working on her second novel as well as a collection of essays about life in Paris.

The backdrop of her debut novel Moonlight in Odessa is the booming business of e-mail order brides, an industry where love and marriage meet sex and commerce. While at the University of Montana, Janet Skeslien Charles translated letters from desperate Russian women to lonely American men. She also interpreted for Russian women married to Americans. After finishing her degree in English literature, she spent two years in Odessa, Ukraine, where she taught English and French at a high school and trained teach...more


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This is an interview that I have wanted to do for a long time. Lauranie Nonotte is a young French entrepreneur and a genius! After a tour in cocoa plantations in Mexico followed by a fact-finding visit in the San Francisco Bay Area to research new chocolatiers, she created Esprit Chocolat and turned her passion for chocolate into a career. Her company specializes in the organization of chocol...

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More of Janet's books…
“Give a man a centimeter and he'll think he's a ruler.”
Janet Skeslien Charles, Moonlight in Odessa

“My job is to scream cockle-doodle-doo. Don't blame me if the sun doesn't rise.”
Janet Skeslien Charles, Moonlight in Odessa

“Odessans' worst fear is change, because what if we make a change and our situation gets worse?”
Janet Skeslien Charles, Moonlight in Odessa

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