Pamela Binnings Ewen, Author

✨✨What are you looking forward to this new year?✨✨

January 2024, day two of a fresh, new year! So many things to wish for-but for me, this says it all. For you and your loved ones, for me and mine, I wish for peace on earth and good will for all. And for unloved animals too. These are big ones, I know. But if each one of us hold onto the thought and act, just think what we could do!
-Pamela

Inside the sold-out museum show on the life and times of Coco Chanel

12/30/2023

Coco Chanel Fashion Manifesto, London.

Inside the sold-out museum show on the life and times of Coco Chanel Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel is best known for her fashion house. After opening her first shop in 1910, Chanel would own one of the biggest fashion brands in the ...

12/27/2023

A gorgeous commissioned painting by Scott Ewen, Painter 🐶

12/26/2023

THE QUEEN OF PARIS is now available in Spanish! 📚
Legendary designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style-the iconic little black dress-and famed for her intoxicating perfume.
Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors.
My novel is fiction based on facts, some uncovered only within the past few years, and vividly imagines Coco’s secret life.

Thank you to my agent Julie Gwinn and Blackstone Publishing!

12/20/2023

Thank you for a lovely review of THE MOON IN THE MANGO TREE! ❤️

Release: October 17, 2023

The Moon in the Mango Tree by Pamela Binnings Ewen is based on the author’s grandmother’s story.

In 1919, newly wed Perkins arrive in Siam. Barbara puts her dream of singing in opera aside for her husband’s work as a missionary doctor. In Nan Valley, north of Siam, she quickly finds out that her singing is not appreciated on the mission as some see it as something inappropriate.

Her journey has no clear path as she is meant to follow her husband. That is the custom during her time. She quickly recognizes monks of Buddhist temples as something spiritual and nurturing. What her husband is part of is meant to have a good purpose, but she notices that the way of the natives may not be necessarily the bad way as they’re being portrayed by missionaries.

The main protagonist journey has no clear path once she decides to follow her husband and when she realizes that her singing voice in a remote place is not needed. She struggles with her faith, and finding her voice. For quite some time, she finds living in Nan Valley as wasted years of her life. Then, she searches for meaning and purpose in her life.

The story brings a fascinating character of a woman who grows on a personal level and despite following her husband; she has her own mind and her own voice.

This story is written with elegant prose, exploring the remote corner of the world and known places of Europe, with a character that fascinates.

This self-grow journey, I find more spiritual than Christian as it’s listed under one of the genres.

12/18/2023

My son’s virtual Holiday Art Sale! 🎄🖼️🎁
Link in comments!

Holiday sale on selected paintings. Link in bio. 🖼️🎁🎄

12/18/2023

Please check out my brother Bill’s amazing sculpture! ❤️

River

12/18/2023

🎞️🎥🎬Gabrielle ‘Coco' Chanel transformed women's fashion, a truly revolutionary designer whose influence is still evident today. Her designs called into question the role of women and ignited a whole new way of dressing. Yet her life remains shrouded in mystery.
The new BBC documentary Coco Chanel Unbuttoned takes a deep dive into the many guises adopted by her during the warring years of the 1930s -1940s in France.
Entertaining, interesting, and a well researched documentary worth watching!🎥🎞️

Available on Daily Motion in USA.

All credits: IMBD, BBC, WHY NOWSTUDIOS

12/12/2023

Gifts for Francophiles! 🎄🇫🇷📚

While working on
THE QUEEN OF PARIS, which delves into the secret life of Coco Chanel during WWII, I was inspired to create a companion novel, ÉMILIENNE, centered around the pre WWI story of Émilienne d'Alençon. Both books explore the lives of two friends, Coco and Émilienne, who take different paths to survive. 💃🏼🇫🇷👸🏻

THE QUEEN OF PARIS and
ÉMILIENNE are currently 50% off cover prices on Amazon! 🇫🇷🥐☕️

12/11/2023

The Pôle Nord 1892 was the first permanent ice rink in Paris. ⛸️🇫🇷
Gorgeous Belle Époque actresses were featured on posters for the rink and were distributed around Paris, contributing greatly to the rink's instant popularity. Regulars at the rink included: Émilienne d'Alençon, Liane de Pougy, Cecile Sorel, and Clémence de Pibrac. 🇫🇷❤️

This poster features skaters, Liane de Pougy and Emilienne D’Alençon- the heroine of my book, ÉMILIENNE. 💃🏼📕

12/05/2023

Beautiful Émilienne d’Alençon, actor, dancer, courtesan and heroine of my book, ÉMILIENNE! ✨💃🏼🇮🇹

12/01/2023

"Of all the months of the year there is not a month one half so welcome to the young, or so full of happy associations, as the last month of the year."
-Charles Dickens

12/01/2023

A rare snow day in Paris! 🇫🇷❤️

11/30/2023

Happy Holidays! 🎄❄️

Studio Sale in progress through next week.
All prices include complimentary domestic shipping.

Follow link in comments to available work.

11/27/2023

Chanel all dressed up for the Holiday Season! photo, London. 😍🎄

11/21/2023

I am so grateful for all of the recognition and praise for The Queen of Paris. Thank you, Sonja!

11/17/2023

Huge news! I am thrilled to announce The Pulpwood Queens Book Club selected THE MOON IN THE MANGO TREE as a bonus book club selection.
With over 800 chapters, The International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club is the largest meeting and discussing book club in the world. I am honored and proud to be an official November 2023 bonus book club selection!

11/13/2023

Happy World Kindness Day!

11/10/2023

Today I'm thinking of the all of brave men and women who have sacrificed and served for our country.
I want to share this flag from my father's PT Boat in WWII.

He was captain of the ship and it went down during battle.
He and his men spent the night in the water, and were rescued the next morning.

They put the flag in the lifeboat and hung on to the sides because it was too small to fit everyone. He was in the Solomon Islands in the Pacific, where John F. Kennedy was also stationed.

11/01/2023

Hope you all have a great day! ✍🏼📚✨

10/31/2023

Happy Halloween from New Orleans! 👻🎃😱

Be on the lookout for a spooky old mossy tree where three ghostly dogs are barking for treats, but they're not interested in doing any tricks. 👻👻👻🎃

10/28/2023

Even better: Tomorrow begins National Stay in Bed Reading Month.
Bring snacks, please.

10/27/2023

I’m so excited to see my novel, ÉMILIENNE, on the Louisiana Book Festival book wall! Do you see it? 💃🏼📕💃🏼

10/27/2023

Celebrate readers, writers and their works at Louisiana Book Festival on Saturday Nearly 200 authors and presenters, ranging from award winners to self-published and debut authors, will discuss their books during more than 100 panels and programs at the 19th Louisiana Book

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