Saw an ad the other day, promoting a beach book. Now we confess we aren't sure exactly what constitutes a beach book (salt-water-resistant, perhaps?), but we do know about vacation books. Those are the ones on your To-Be-Read list that you take along when you know you're have the luxury of long stretches of time when you can read something wonderful with a clear conscience. For us that's the beach or the mountains, where we can curl up in a comfy chair and let the world go by, while we get lost in other times and other lives.

Then there's the other kind of vacation, where you're so busy seeing and doing, that you can only read in small snatches, before bed, perhaps, or with your first cup of coffee. If you're like us, you will find time to read, even if it's only a page or two.

One summer Jude's family traveled more than fourteen thousand miles and saw a good bit of the United States (and a tiny bit of Canada). For three months before departure, everyone added to a list of Places to Go and Things to Do, before the route was planned. Believe it or not, they managed to see and do almost everything on the list in eleven weeks on the road. And she read about a book a week, too.

Thinking back on that, we wondered where our authors would go, if time and transportation were no object. Time...not just a week off from work, but time since or time until. Transportation...across uncharted oceans or to distant planets. So we asked.

The replies were so interesting that we just had to share them with our readers. To make things more interesting, we're not going to tell you who wants to go where, but just show a title by that author. Some surprises here...

You already know these folks:

Byzantium, at the height of its glory (MISS ANNABELLE'S YANKEE); Hawaii in January--any excuse to escape a Winnipeg winter (HER BEST MAN); Promontory Summit, 10 May 1869, the meeting of the rails (NOBLE SAVAGE); The Orkneys, for another look at Skara Brae (A COUSINLY CONNEXION); Japan...today's good. Or tomorrow. Or the next... (EYES OF A CHILD); Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, June, 1805--ah, the gaiety, gowns, parties...(THE BEGGARMAID); Planet Mars--I hear it's lovely this time of year! (TAINTED TEA FOR TWO); Devon, England, in the time of Elizabeth I (NEVER TOO LATE).

And you'll soon meet these:

Galactic North Solar Time Watch Observatory 2199 CE (THE BITTERROOT TRAIL, August 2007); Travel New Zealand East to West Coast Fjords early summer (SNASS CHUCKS, November 2007); White Earth Creek, Blackfoot village, 1805, taking oral histories (WHISPERING SUN, May 2008); Fort Bridger, Wyoming, 1868: a historic treaty conference (CHARMED, I'M SURE, November 2007); The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, monthly for a year (GOD REST YE, MARY, November 2007)

Okay, so how do YOU decide where to take a vacation? Most of us have somewhere we've always wanted to go, something we've always wanted to do. Where would you go, if time and transportation weren't an issue? Write to us at soundoff@uncialpress.com <mailto:soundoff@uncialp%5bress.com> and share your dream destination.

It's June, and we're really excited about this month's offerings. Adam Larson returns in another murderous adventure, this time starting with a missing woman and ending with a satisfying surprise in A SHADOW IN THE NIGHT, by Kenneth L. Levinson. We've also got two Novel Bytes for those busy (vacation?) times when you just can't read a big book. Anna C. Bowling's QUEEN OF THE OCEAN is about impossible dreams and how love sometimes makes them possible. And Jaye Watson shows why it's a good idea to sniff your pie before tasting, in CAN SHE BAKE A CHERRY PIE? Visit our website and read some tempting samples.

Coming up in July are two hot romances. Jana Richards is back again with SEEING THINGS, a paranormal romantic suspense that will have you sitting on the edge of your seat, breathless. NEVER THE TWAIN, by Judith B. Glad, brings together an archaeologist from Back East and a cowboy from Out West with sizzling results.

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