Dreaming with Sandy M – a very short story
Once upon a time Sandy dreamed of living in a lighthouse on the California coastline. Well, she still does, but that ain’t happenin’ any time soon.
So instead she’s moved to a small town in Central California where folks roaming downtown on a beautiful spring evening still say hello and wave to those they pass. So far she and her mountainous TBR pile and her kitty Winter are faring well.
After years of reading Nora Roberts, Linda Howard, Iris Johansen, Sandra Brown, all of whom had backlists to keep her busy for many years into the future, plus a stint into the legal thriller world of John Grisham, Scott Turow, and the like, Sandy’s reading world changed drastically.
Approximately ten years ago when she discovered an historical romance chat group, which boasted a group of ladies from all over the world and who know their books and authors backward and forward, from that moment on Sandy’s reading world expanded. Through her new friends in this chat group, she learned of such authors as Julia Quinn, Mary Jo Putney, Catherine Anderson, Melody Thomas, Victoria Alexander, and so many others.
Not long after this Sandy picked up a book by one of her favorites, Linda Howard’s Son of the Morning, a book that threw the heroine back in time to meet her hero. Sandy was enthralled and began looking for any time travel book there was to find. From there Karen Marie Moning, Diana Gabaldon, Lynn Kurland, Sandy Blair, among others, were added to her wishlist, and then came the werewolves, the vampires, the ghosts, the witches by such authors as Kresley Cole, Amanda Ashley, J.R. Ward, Susan Krinard, and a host of others.
And when she met, a number of years ago, a strange Duck by the name of Sybil, Sandy has been given the opportunity to share her views of books she loves – and some she doesn’t – with other readers around the world. Definitely a dream come true.
In the meantime, now with a library of her own in her cozy lighthouse, Sandy reads about 20 books a month while waiting for her knight in shining armor to travel through time and carry her away to their Happily Ever After.
The End
And, through her contact with Sandy M and a lovely lady known as The Duchess, Lynne C (in the UK) was introduced to American authored and published romance books. Lots of M bags later, she is still reading, but thanks to the ebook, not so much goes through the post these days. Oh yes, and she’s written a few, too.
Years later, she met a duckie called Sybil, who invited her to add a post or two, and she discovered that Sandy M was the Lighthouse Lady. Small, small world.
Sandy is Mikey she likes everything 😉
Small world, indeed, Lynne! I remember all those book trades across the pond. And I was thrilled to find out you’re an author and to see your success over the years. I’m glad to be a fellow reviewer and cyber friend.
Ha, Sybil! See my Best and Worst on Monday. I don’t ALWAYS like everything!
Hah! I haven’t visiting Hist Romance Chat for ages, but definitely enjoyed my time there meeting up with people like Sandy, Rosario, Sybil etc.