Media Kit
- Personal Note from Author Luba Lesychyn
- About the Book
- Biography (Short and Long)
- What’s the Buzz?
- Downloadable Press-Ready Images
- Reviews
- Interviews/Media Coverage
- YouTube
- Theft By Chocolate Excerpt
- Contact
- Note to Friends and Supporters
Personal Note from Author Luba Lesychyn
Welcome to Luba's media kit page and to her newly-published novel, Theft By Chocolate, which contains all the elements for an intriguing interview/article.
Luba is available for interviews for radio or television programs, or for magazine, newspaper, and website articles or blog posts.
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About the Book
Theft By Chocolate is a sassy museum mystery about a woman looking for chocolate, love and an international art thief in all the wrong places.
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Biography (Short and Long)
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Luba worked at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum for more than 20 years followed by several years in a private museum consulting company based in Toronto and London (UK). Luba Lesychyn is a graduate of the Humber College Creative Writing program and currently works in the educational sector in her home town of Toronto. Theft By Chocolate is her debut novel.
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Soon after finishing her graduate studies in history, Luba landed on the doorstep of Canada’s largest museum, the Royal Ontario Museum where she for worked for more than twenty years. Moving from positions in the Education and Programs Departments to the Museum’s consulting branch, she concluded her career in the office that managed the Museum’s controversial architectural renovation.
After leaving the Museum, Luba worked for several years in an administrative and research capacity for a private museum consulting firm with offices in Toronto and London (UK) and graduated from the Humber College Creative Writing program. She currently works in the educational sector and teaches yoga in her home town of Toronto.
Theft By Chocolate is Luba’s debut novel though she has been amusing people with her writing since the age of eight. Her love of chocolate precedes this age and she has been in and out of chocolate rehab for most of her adult life. When not writing or looking for her next chocolate fix, Luba can be found in dance classes, trekking to remote waterfalls in the mountain rain forest in Puerto Rico, running through the streets of Paris or any other number of calorie-burning activities that help offset her chocolate intake.
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What’s the Buzz?
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Welcome to Luba's media kit page and to her newly-published novel, Theft By Chocolate, which contains all the elements for an intriguing interview/article.
Luba is available for interviews for radio or television programs, or for magazine, newspaper, and website articles or blog posts.
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About the Book
Theft By Chocolate is a sassy museum mystery about a woman looking for chocolate, love and an international art thief in all the wrong places.
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Biography (Short and Long)
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Luba worked at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum for more than 20 years followed by several years in a private museum consulting company based in Toronto and London (UK). Luba Lesychyn is a graduate of the Humber College Creative Writing program and currently works in the educational sector in her home town of Toronto. Theft By Chocolate is her debut novel.
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Soon after finishing her graduate studies in history, Luba landed on the doorstep of Canada’s largest museum, the Royal Ontario Museum where she for worked for more than twenty years. Moving from positions in the Education and Programs Departments to the Museum’s consulting branch, she concluded her career in the office that managed the Museum’s controversial architectural renovation.
After leaving the Museum, Luba worked for several years in an administrative and research capacity for a private museum consulting firm with offices in Toronto and London (UK) and graduated from the Humber College Creative Writing program. She currently works in the educational sector and teaches yoga in her home town of Toronto.
Theft By Chocolate is Luba’s debut novel though she has been amusing people with her writing since the age of eight. Her love of chocolate precedes this age and she has been in and out of chocolate rehab for most of her adult life. When not writing or looking for her next chocolate fix, Luba can be found in dance classes, trekking to remote waterfalls in the mountain rain forest in Puerto Rico, running through the streets of Paris or any other number of calorie-burning activities that help offset her chocolate intake.
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What’s the Buzz?
- Theft By Chocolate is inspired by the author’s more than twenty years at Canada’s largest museum, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Luba’s experience at the Museum provides readers with a rare authenticity and behind-the-scenes access to real museum life.
- Theft By Chocolate has ranked in the top hundred in Amazon.com's Mystery & Thrillers genres.
- The taut page-turning museum heist tale draws from a real-life, never-solved theft that took place in the 1980s at the ROM. The ingenious heist shocked the security industry and was a catalyst that led to significant changes in security technology around the globe. The story is a fictional imagining that weaves the historical event into a 21st century setting and ends with an unexpected twist.
- Luba Lesychyn is a new breed of author whose work went direct to eBook and is one of a handful of Canadian authors published by a digital publishing company and with print copies being produced on a Print On Demand basis.
- Theft By Chocolate is proving to be a harbinger of real events including the hosting of a major museum exhibit on the Maya by Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum and the theft of some Group of Seven paintings from a gallery in Toronto’s Yorkville neighborhood. Is life imitating fiction?
- As a film fanatic with a screen-writing background, Luba Lesychyn has created witty, playful, and sometimes witchy dialogue that makes the book a fun read. And as an obsessive culture hound, Luba has loaded the book with pop culture references that give the work a modern edge and satiates curious readers.
- Readers are being surprised by the unconventional and irreverent mystery thriller, by the book’s levity, and by the numerous laugh-out-loud moments fueled by the quirky Kalena Boyko, a reluctant cougar and amateur sleuth whose substance abuse problem (chocolate) escalates to a fever pitch as the tale unfolds.
- Theft By Chocolate is a participant in the eLibrary Project in South Africa which is putting Kindles and eBooks into the hands of students who may not otherwise have access to a larger catalogue of books. Luba is helping to promote awareness of the project and is assisting in soliciting donations from eAuthors to the project.
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Reviews
I downloaded your book on my iPad and decided to switch from the book I was reading to Theft By Chocolate. I don't usually read fiction, but the first few pages were like eating white chocolate. I could not put it down until I finished it. I look forward to seeing it as a movie.
Al Shaikoli
Director of Engineering, Facilities and Operations
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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I loved reading Theft By Chocolate! It was well written, funny, and a good mystery. The author's descriptions of Toronto and London were wonderful and I felt like I was there with Kalena, the heroine, as she chased suspects by taxi or walked miles in spiked heels with heavy suitcase in tow. There is also a little romance that happens (all closed door), enough to satisfy this romance reader.
Karysa Faire
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This was a fun mystery featuring a chocolate-obsessed main character. I really liked the character of Kalena – she’s smart, sassy, and a bit of a magnet for mishaps. She does do a few silly things, but I think this adds to part of her charm. The mystery itself was engaging, and I didn’t figure out what was going on before the end. I also liked the setting of Toronto, and the writer makes me want to visit the city.
Alison (Cozy Crimes)
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Interviews/Media Coverage
The Bulletin (Toronto, March 2014): Interview by Dennis Hanagan of The Bulletin, conducted at the author's book signing at Chapters Indigo in Toronto on February 9, 2014.
Ryerson University Magazine (Toronto, Summer 2014)
Toronto.com (Toronto, May 29, 2018)
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YouTube
CBC TV: Live spot interview by CBC on News Now with Luba Lesychyn at Word on the Street Sep 23 12.
David Ansara Interviews St. Francis Students: eLibrary Project students discuss their readings including Theft By Chocolate (@ 8 minutes, 40 seconds)
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Theft By Chocolate Excerpt
To give you an idea of what the book is about, here is the first chapter.
Click here to download Chapter 1 of Theft By Chocolate.
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Contact
Please contact Luba Lesychyn at theftbychocolate@gmail.com (direct link here).
You can also connect with Luba Lesychyn on the following social network platforms:
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Note to Friends and Supporters
Do you have a favorite radio or television host, or newspaper or magazine editor or columnist that you think might be interested in interviewing Luba about Theft By Chocolate? Maybe their program or publication is a perfect fit with listeners, viewers or readers to whom the novel would resonate.
Or maybe you belong to a book club, know an independent bookstore or chocolate or sweet shop, or frequent a local library that would be interested in a reading or book signing.
If you do, then please contact me.
I look forward to hearing from you and THANKS!
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Note to Friends and Supporters
Do you have a favorite radio or television host, or newspaper or magazine editor or columnist that you think might be interested in interviewing Luba about Theft By Chocolate? Maybe their program or publication is a perfect fit with listeners, viewers or readers to whom the novel would resonate.
Or maybe you belong to a book club, know an independent bookstore or chocolate or sweet shop, or frequent a local library that would be interested in a reading or book signing.
If you do, then please contact me.
I look forward to hearing from you and THANKS!
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