As a writer, one of the things I'm always doing as I travel is looking for the details and nuances of a place. Everything can become a research trip. In fact, I've been known to fall in love with places and set a book there so I would have an excuse to return! Because it's the weekend, let's talk about two things:
1) places you've been that you'd love to turn into the setting of a book, and
2) books that have felt like a vacation.
For the first, I set a book on Mackinac Island so that I could return there. It's such an incredible place to visit, that I knew the first time I visited it would be the perfect place for a book. Italy I did backwards. I wrote the book and then I visited.
For the second, I love books where the setting is a vacation. I'm including a few links to books that fit that bill that are on ebook sale right now. Enjoy!
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An award-winning author of more than twenty books, Cara is a lecturer on business and employment law to graduate students at Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management. Putman also practices law and is a second-generation homeschooling mom. She lives with her husband and four children in Indiana.
6 comments:
Hello from a chilly north. I think my house was transported to the North Pole. It's so cold and a harsh wind is blowing through. I tell yah, this would be the time to hop on a plane and go someplace toasty warm.
So, instead I'll get a cup of something warm to drink and read a book.
Stay warm, Cara.
I lived in London for a semester, and I'd love the opportunity to incorporate that into a storyline.
I love Beth Vogt's destination wedding novels, especially _Crazy Little Thing Called Love_, which was set in Destin. I've been there before, and it felt nice to "be back" again. :)
Hi, Laura: Isn't Destin a wonderful place to visit? And a beautiful location for a destination wedding -- so long as you're marrying the right guy, of course.
It's so much fun to incorporate favorite places into storylines. I live in Colorado now and there are so many wonderful locations in this state I won't run out of possible settings for my novels for quite some time. And I think London would be an ideal setting for a storyline. I haven't been there yet, but it's on my list of places I want to visit.
I visited Maine for the first time in 2016. It is a beautiful place and very inspirational. I've set my WIP there.
Thanks for sharing!
I live near Houston, TX, so I don't get much winter as some do. I did live in Colorado Springs, CO for a year. My first "white" Christmas was so beautiful.
"Tidewater Inn" and "Lasting Impression".
Marilyn
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