SOMEDAY BELONGS TO US
by
MARGIE SEAMAN
Fiction / Pirate Romance / Late in Life / Sea Stories
Publisher: Stoney Creek Publishing Group
Pages: 224 pages
Publication Date: June 22, 2022
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Kate Caldwell is a 72-year-old romance novelist writing under the nom de plume, Desiree Desire. With more than thirty bestsellers to her credit, Kate is considered an authority on romance. Her personal life, however, has been lacking in the love department for a long time, and she has all but given up hope of finding a true, romantic connection. Her latest series, about a rakish eighteenth-century pirate, has been a struggle. Her struggle with her own creative processes boils over on a stormy night, when Captain Edward Peregrine, a pirate of the Caribbean during the year 1721, begins appearing to her as she sleeps. Convinced that Edward is a figment of her imagination, Kate happily accepts his return visits, and the two collaborate on the first two books of the series. Then, Edward suddenly stops appearing, and Kate is frustrated with her publisher’s demands for the next book.
In desperation, she decides to take a two-week cruise with her granddaughter, Ellie, hoping the chance to relax and watch the waves breaking in the beautiful waters of the Caribbean will reset her creative process. Little did Kate know that troubled waters lay ahead or that she’s in for the adventure of her life, and possibly, true love at long last.
PRAISE FOR MARGIE SEAMAN'S SOMEDAY BELONGS TO US
“A fun and lively read about romance, and the real and imagined adventures of a woman writer cruising through her senior years. Once again, Margie Seaman proves age is no obstacle in this swashbuckling debut novel.” --Lise Olsen, Author of CODE OF SILENCE
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WRITING THAT BOOK “NEXT YEAR”
GUEST POST BY
MARGIE SEAMAN
Writing a book was something that I had wanted to do since I was fifteen years old, and my high school English teacher told me I should become a writer. However, writing a book never made it to the top of my priority list during my teens and I always kept thinking I would do it "next year." I mean - I had unlimited “next years” in my lifetime, right? Between my twenties and forties, being a mother and having a career took up all of my free time and the book again was relegated to "next year." During the years, there were various plots rumbling around in my head and some half-hearted attempts were made at starting a story, but nothing ever went past the planning and first couple of pages stage.
In 1986, the death of my father brought about a desire to write some type of tribute to him. The Houston Chronicle had the Parade magazine at that time, and they were soliciting short narratives for publication. I wrote a piece about life during the war with my family, especially my father, and to my surprise, it was chosen. I remember how excited I was the Sunday it appeared in the paper – I was a writer! Just thinking that brought heavenly music to my ears but my elation was short-lived, and I returned to the “next year” mentality.
October of 2016 brought an ominous reality to my consciousness. I turned eighty years old. Eighty!!! How did that happen? Where were my unlimited "next years?" Suddenly, the realization hit me that if I were ever going to do something about the book, it better be soon. The only issue was that after sixty-five years of being a practiced procrastinator, I still was dragging my feet. It took a final challenge to get me focused and ready to finally achieve my dream.
That challenge soon showed itself and provided the spark to get me going. As a web designer, one of my clients, Loren Steffy, was a journalist and non-fiction writer who had just written his debut novel, The Big Empty. In a conversation we had, he mentioned that he hated something with "the passion of a thousand burning suns". I replied that his comment sounded like the title of a cheesy romance novel with handsome pirates and beautiful, lusty maidens. He told me to "write it." Something clicked in my head. The gauntlet had been thrown down. It was now or never and from that chance remark, Someday Belongs to Us was born.
The timing was perfect even though I was eighty-two. I had spent the previous twenty years with my sister-in-law cruising every chance we had. I used the cruise ship as the background environment for the book, added a little space-time continuum mix-up, a gorgeous pirate, plus a cast of other wonderful characters that just popped into my head. Writing this story as a book-within-a-book gave me the opportunity to develop the character of the eighteenth-century pirate as he lived his life on the sea. The fun began when my main characters, Kate Caldwell and Captain Edward Peregrine, mysteriously became enmeshed in a wormhole of time and their lives were joined.
Completing the book and realizing my dream at an advanced age only reinforces my belief that life is wonderful no matter what your age and that goals can always be achieved if you work hard enough for them. My optimism is shown by planning this book to be the first in a trilogy. Think I better start the next book, time is passing!
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Wow! Words to take to heart -- I'm hitting 55 but already am guilty of that "next year" thinking. Thanks for sharing this.
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