So I’ve been promoting Darcy By Any Other Name as a “beach read.” You know, the perfect book for a vacation. But maybe I’m wrong.


Last week a reader shared a “book selfie” on Facebook. Oh, the places my books go. How I love seeing them! Darcy, can’t I squeeze through the Kindle and come along with you?
The thing is, Rita’s beach is perfectly lovely. No way would I want to be reading a book there, not while the sun and surf are calling!
I saw Rita’s photo on my phone, right in the middle of a road trip. (A coffee break at a noisy McDonald’s, to be precise.) I tell you what, during my travels I saw a few places where I’d prefer to be reading. “Beauty spots” where fictional escape is more than a preference, it’s a necessity.
So should I call my new book an “escape-the-skeezy-motel” read? Would that that prompt you to buy?



The beach is beautiful! Maybe your book would be good in a Snow Storm????
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Aha! That will be my Christmas advertising campaign!
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I’ve never been able to read at the beach — too much glare, too much sweat, too much heat. Your book is a great read for that downtime when you’re not on the beach, but you’re back at your hotel (condo, rental, etc), relaxing out on the balcony, or for those days it’s rainy and the tourist attractions are packed. It is a wonderful story with a great take-away. It can be enjoyed anywhere.
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Since I grew up with a sailboat, this would be a “cockpit read” — at anchor, under the canopy, with a gentle breeze. Or a “hammock read” — on a moored boat it swings back and forth. Until the anchorage becomes choppy…
Thanks for the kind words, Gayle.
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I have the sea quite far away. I may wait until July and read it by the loveliest lake that I have around her, Rutland Water… I will think about it!!
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Time by a lake sounds wonderful, especially for a busy teacher. Silence, ahhh.
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Beach read, poolside read, blanket fort read, skeezy motel read…this book could be read ANYWHERE! 😉
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Blanket fort read? Yes!
So it’s like Green Eggs and Ham? Here and there and anywhere? 🙂
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