Geoducks
are for Lovers
By:
Daisy Prescott
Blurb:
Food writer Maggie Marrion is just getting back on her feet
after a horrible year, or two, or three. With their twentieth reunion
approaching, she invites four of her closest friends from college for a weekend
at her beach cabin. What she doesn’t expect is her best friends, artist Quinn
Dayton and part-time erotica novelist, Selah Elmore, to play matchmaker. The
two plot a surprise that will make the weekend, and her life, a lot more
interesting.
Gil Morrow, former grunge musician turned history professor,
joins them as Selah’s date for the weekend. After coming face to face with the
one who got away, he decides he's waited long enough to get the girl. With the
support of old friends, a few wishing rocks, the world’s largest burrowing
clam, and a hot lumberjack thrown into the mix, Gil reminds Maggie that
forty-something isn’t too old for second chances.
Can we learn to love the life we have and let go of who we
expected to be? What happens when the generation from The Breakfast Club and
Reality Bites meets The Big Chill? Come spend a weekend with these Generation
X-ers as they share laughter, tears, life’s ups and downs, old stories, and new
beginnings.
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Interview:
To get started can you tell us what you are
working on or have coming out?
My debut novel, Geoducks Are for Lovers, was released
May 15th. I have a short
story outlined, a novel in the planning stages, and am playing around with a
spin-off/follow-up to Geoducks that focuses on one (maybe more) of the
supporting characters.
What made you realize that writing was it for
you? Do you write full time?
I've always loved words and storytelling. Beginning in high
school, I've been told I should be a writer and friends started pushing me to
write a novel when I was in my twenties. But I didn't listen. Instead, I went
off into the world and had adventures, had my heart broken, worked jobs I
hated, moved and moved again, learned new skills, and took up expensive
hobbies.
A few years ago I left yet another job I hated and started
freelance writing full-time. Last summer the idea for Geoducks came to
me and unlike many ideas before, stuck in my head. Now I have ideas popping up
all the time and try to find balance between freelance projects and writing
fiction.
Where do you dream of traveling to and why?
I definitely have the travel bug. I'm always thinking of
places to go and my travel bucket list is ridiculous. I have two current dream
trips. I'd love to see sloths hanging out in the jungles of Costa Rica. The
sloth is my spirit animal. SO (the hubs) and I have a fantasy trip to Machu
Piccu planned if I sell a certain amount of books. That trip would cross two
things off my bucket list: visit South America and cross the Equator.
Does travel play in the writing of your books?
Definitely. Geoducks is set on Whidbey Island in
Washington. The island is just as much a character in the book as the people.
It's a place I know well, and the book is a love letter to the island. I want
people to fall in love with the place and maybe even be inspired to visit
Whidbey themselves.
Where are your fans most likely to find you
hanging out?
During the summer, I live on my screened sunporch. Come on
over. I always have iced tea and snacks!
About
the Author:
Before writing full time, Daisy Prescott worked in the world
of art, auctions, antiques, and home decor. She earned her degree in Art
History and endured a brief stint as a film theory graduate student. Baker, art
educator, antiques dealer, blue ribbon pie maker, blogger, content wrangler,
freelance writer, fangirl, gardener, wife, and pet mom are a few of the other
titles she’s acquired over the years.
Born and raised in San Diego, Daisy and her husband (aka SO)
currently live in a real life Stars Hollow in the Boston suburbs with their
dog, Hubbell, and an imaginary house goat. Geoducks Are for Lovers is her debut
novel. She is busy researching her second novel.
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Giveaway:
Daisy Prescott is giving away a Kindle E-Reader ($69.00
Value)
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Unfortunately, due to drunk driver going 65 mph rear-ending me while I was at a complete stop, the injuries I sustained forced me to drop out of my pre-med studies at the U of M-Flint. I never got to finish college, so I never made those type of college friends/bonds. I do hope to return one day, but for Forensics and/or Psychology.
ReplyDeleteoohhh hope the kindle is for international :)
ReplyDeletethanks for the chance
never went to college though....
ReplyDeleteI don't really spend time with people from college. I did within a few years of leaving college, but as life goes on it seems like I see them less and less.
ReplyDeleteI didn't go to college, but I do keep in touch with friends from high school
ReplyDeleteI do keep in touch with a few, close friends that I made in college. It's hard to see them since we've since moved to different states. Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteSince i'm in college still, yes i do! haha
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like a good story. I only kept up with a few people from college. I would never have guessed things that I would wind up as a housemom (I spend far more time with my children than I do the hubby.)
ReplyDeleteI did at the beginning but moved away from the area. Wish I did. Thank you for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteNever went to college, thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteMy husband whom I met in college :)
ReplyDeletepenumbrareads(at)gmail(dot)com
I never made it to college but I still spend time with my High school Friends..Great giveaway!!
ReplyDeleteI stayed up with a few. Just everyone moved or went on with their careers and lost track. Marie melisk1966@yahoo.com
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