By Vicki Delany
Having a new book out, that is.
When it does start getting old, I’ll quit writing. Because if it’s not fun, why do it? It sure ain’t
for the money.
The second book in my Lighthouse Library series is titled Booked
for Trouble and it was released on Sept. 1. (It’s written under my pen
name of Eva Gates)
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| View from my hotel room |
I drove down to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where the
books are set, on a short book tour. I visited
five marvellous independent bookstores in three days (Ducks Cottage and Island Bookstores
on the Outer Banks, and Bethany Beach Books in Delaware), and stopped in for
stock signing at the cute, crowded, and cozy Buxton Village books near
Hatteras. The Outer Banks are a huge tourist destination and all the bookstore
owners tell me that tourists love to find books set in the Outer Banks.
I also stopped in at some Barnes and Noble stores when
driving by to do stock signings as well. It’s just so great to walk into a store
and know without looking that my book will be there!
(P.S. Booked for Trouble made #19 on the Barnes and Noble paperback fiction list!)
It was a lot of fun, although the trip was pretty
rushed. I am quite a heat freak and
while I was driving the two days down to North Carolina, and the tow days back,
and spending my time there in my car or air-conditioned bookstores, I gather we
were having the hottest week of the summer at home.
This trip I had almost no time for relaxation. I got about
two hours one day on the beach and in the pool, but I managed a couple of nice
dinners out. Gotta keep trying that
North Carolina cooking you know. All in
the name of research. How we suffer for our art.
Booked for Trouble is now available at all your favourite bookstores,independent and chains, in paper and ebook formats. here's but one link: Amazon.com
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| Dinner night 2 was jambalaya |
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| Relaxing after a hard day on the road with shrimp and grits |
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| Dinner 3 was a disappointing sea food platter. And why it was served with a bowl of beans I do not know |
Hsppy pub day,Vicki. Love the cover. Looks way more inviting than the photo of that seafood platter. Yuck.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Eileen. I do love the covers that they do for these books.
ReplyDeleteI do miss those shrimp and grits. Oh, and congratulations on your wonderful success!
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