“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” ― Anton Chekhov
We are all familiar with the aphorisms: Those who can’t do, teach, and Those who can’t write, edit. Guy Thomas Hibbert’s first book, Paris Postcards, disproves the later. Paris Postcards is a collection of eleven short stories that span Paris’s bohemian 20’s to the present day. Written with a deftness that reminded me of Somerset Maugham, each of Guy’s stories is linked by a postcard, and though that might seem a contrivance, it works beautifully. One of my favorite stories in this collection is Les Années Folle, The Roaring Twenties, regarding a disenchanted young man’s epiphany at the bedside of his dying mother, both briefly reunited by a postcard and the “ …brief glow of redemptive love.”
I met Guy via email 3 years ago when France Media Group bought the online magazine, Bonjour Paris. I had been writing for Bonjour Paris since 2011 and was delighted to learn I would be welcomed as a contributing author for their print magazine, France Today. A former journalist and travel writer, Guy brought firsthand experience to his job as Editor-in-Chief of not only Bonjour Paris and France Today but recently to Taste of France, hailed as the current French foodie bible.
Guy first visited France as a 17-year-old, hitchhiking down the west coast along the Bay of Biscay, across the Pyrénées and around the Mediterranean. The following year he returned with three school friends and drove 3,000 kms of French country roads in a Morris Thousand Traveller. He never forgot the hospitality of the French people he met in his travels nor the fabulous scenery. 
Guy’s love of travel began in his childhood and imbued him with a great sense of adventure. His early years were spent in India, the Dominican Republic, Iran, Bermuda and Italy following his father’s circuitous employment. He has strong memories of visits to Isfahan, Persepolis and the Caspian Sea. In the 1970’s he attended the International School in Rome, “…where our notorious fellow student was John Paul Getty III. who was later expelled, and then, famously, kidnapped.”
Guy graduated from the University of Kent with a BA in English Literature. While there he wrote poetry and, in his role as Head of the University’s Poetry Society, met many famous poets of the day including Seamus Heaney, Peter Riley and Andrew Crozier. His first paying job was in publishing and he has worked in the profession ever since, running his own publishing businesses since 1992. 
In 2003 he and his family moved to the Dordogne region, where he finally found the time to focus his diverse talents on creative writing. With the publication of Paris Postcards, Guy has been fortunate to rekindle an early love affair with France and explore the mystique of the city he loves.
“When I walk the streets of Paris, I feel an affinity with the past. I observe the foreign visitors drawn to such a magical city and among them all the residents going about their everyday lives. I think about people over the centuries whose footsteps I may be following…”
Guy is currently working on a second volume of short stories set in France and a novel set in Rome.
