I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.

The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.

Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.

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