So, the countdown begins-- in just one month CRUEL SUMMER will be in stores--yippee!! And as the sun is just absolutely blazing outside, making for yet another bee-u-ti-ful Laguna Beach day, my thoughts have turned to summer as well. Summers present--love my new Havianas flip-flops!-- and summers past--seven of them spent in Mykonos, Greece which spawned the idea for CRUEL SUMMER.
And while the beaches were dreamy and the town was magic
there were definite challenges to overcome too--one of them being the language barrier.
I never actually studied Greek, never became anywhere close to fluent. But once I'd memorized how to sound out the letter combinations, I learned to read it by watching old episodes of 90210 on TV (everything was subtitled back then, and Greek is phonetic--gave a whole new spin to the Brenda/Dylan/Kelly love triangle), and I learned to speak it by listening--(the first word I learned how to say was: Jerk! But only because I heard it all the time!). And as far as I thought I'd come, communicating in my own form of Grenlglish, looking back, I'm afraid I might've actually sounded like this:
"Colby Empress physicist is hunting nervy to her prizewinning season yet—until her parents end to split and beam her to springy with her “crazy” aunty Tally on a tiny Hellenic island. Stranded in a external locate with no radiophone phone, Colby fears her …"
THAT, dear reader, is the summary for the Cruel Summer Book Trailer as shown on a German site. Seriously. To see for yourself click HERE.
But despite the pure gorgeousness developing outside, I goofed off all weekend, so it's back to work for me. But I don't feel bad about since I know there'll be more days like this. That's one of my favorite things about summer-- the succession of beautiful days!
What about YOU? What do you like best (or worst!) about summer?
