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Breeza Carlton is the author of Last Call at the Savoy.

Breeza grew up in the Pacific Northwest before moving to Midtown Manhattan to turn her passion for musicals

and flare for the dramatic into an award-winning career as a Broadway producer.

Three Tonys later, she has worked on numerous productions, including Hamilton, Beautiful, and

Mulan Rouge. In 2019, at the request of H.S.H. Prince Albert of Monaco, Brizza joined his foundation to lead

philanthropy efforts in the theater, dance, and film on behalf of his mother, Princess Grace Kelly.

Most recently, she turned her entrepreneurial spirit to actual spirits, launching literati

spirits, a premium vodka created by book lovers for book lovers. By the way,

this vodka is actually delicious. You should totally check it out. Literati spirits. She now spends

her days traveling to literary destinations with a martini in one hand and a manuscript in the other,

collecting stories with her husband Mark and her long-haired juawa, Mr. Big.

Welcome, Brizza. Thank you so much for coming on Totally Booked to talk about last call at the Savoy Hotel. Thanks, Sibby. So good to see you. Good to see you, too. Loved a little introduction

to this book as we had our Greenwich retreat recently, and you got to talk all about it with

assorted characters. But now we can do a deeper dive. So tell everybody what your book is about. So last call at the Savoy is about a New York party girl named Cinnamon who rushes off to London to help her very pregnant sister who's on bed rest at the Savoy Hotel. And while her sister is resting, cinnamon wows away

the hours in the Savoy Hotel's iconic American bar. And while she's there, she learns the history of

this real life, the first celebrity female mixologist who created many of the amazing cocktails

that we still have heard of now and was responsible

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