Get Your Passport Ready

by EM Lynley

You've had a rough day or a particularly grueling week. You can't wait to get away from it all by escaping into someone else's world in the pages (or pixels) of a book. We've all been there. I admit to reading for escape as much as simple entertainment. A good writer can make us feel we're in another place, time, world or even in someone else's body. A great writer makes us want to stay there and never come home. If only we could.

Have you ever read a book that made you want to visit a place you've never been? Not only give you a description of somewhere else, but immerse you in the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures, so you really are there? I love when that happens. And it's what I've tried to do in my latest release, Rarer Than Rubies, set in Thailand and based on my own visits there.

It's little things that drew me in, almost as much as the spectacular scenery of the countryside or the magnificent temples and palaces.

It was a special pleasure to bring little details and delights of Thailand, from Bangkok and its heat, so thick you feel it wrapping around every limb, to the dirty backstreets where all manner of trade--more than you've imagined--takes place.

Food is a special passion of mine, so I wanted to share the duck with anise and ginger and my favorite coconut drinks they serve "to go" with a straw in a plastic bag and a looped rubber band to hold it, boucing along as you walk and sip.

My goal is to make you want to book your flight right away!

EM Lynley writes gay romance. Her latest release romance/adventure RARER THAN RUBIES is set in Thailand, described as "Indiana Jones meets Romancing the Stone." Also available from Amazon.com. (Read an excerpt.)

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All images used under Creative Commons License. 1. Royal Palace Bangkok. 2.  Drink in plastic bag 3. Phanom Rung Temple  4. Thai countryside.