This is not your typical travel memoir. A Room with No View is a mostly-true comedic novella

about closing a big TV deal and being sent to Paris during the 2024 Summer Olympics—despite

being nearly 40, not on social media, not speaking French, and having never left the country.

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What unfolds is a hilarious, heartfelt, and wine-soaked fish-out-of-water story that blends

personal chaos with global spectacle. Between rebooting cutting-edge tech on a world stage,

battling Olympic-level anxiety, dodging cultural faux pas, and (yes) living inside a Parisian

shopping mall after a major Airbnb catfish… it’s part work trip, part identity crisis, and part “how

did I end up here?”

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Told with sharp wit, self-deprecating charm, and a healthy pour of buttery Chardonnay, this

novella captures one surreal week in Paris—complete with oddball characters, awkward

encounters, and a few unfiltered truths about ambition, adulthood, and trying to keep it together

when the world feels larger than life.

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This is the first in a planned collection of short, funny, and unfiltered globetrotting novellas—

each one a love letter to awkward encounters, late-in-life awakenings, and the chaotic magic of

being a woman on the move (who never quite packed the right shoes).