Many posts ask readers which they like better… eBooks or real books. For me, it’s not about like or dislike; it’s about need. After years of typing, crocheting, playing piano, and marking papers, my fingers are calling the shots. And they let me know that it’s easier to touch a screen than to turn a page. I read for two or three hours daily and the right tool for the job and joy of reading is eBook. In fact, there are 334 books on my Kindle right now.
Still, the sight of stacks of hardcovers and paperbacks both new and old is treasure to me, the scent is perfume. When my Of Sea and Sand character Kevin Kerrigan yearns to learn to read, he has a visceral reaction to holding a book. “Kevin locked his eyes on the book. He took it in his hand. He liked the feel of it firm, solid, and smooth.” I can relate to Kevin’s feeling for, when I first get my hands on my new paperback, there is no containing the happiness.
It is actually the arrival of the real book that takes the writing and publishing process into the real world.
Ghostly matriarch Kathleen Kerrigan resumes the compelling saga of her family, whose lives are mired in secrets, steeped in betrayal, and then hurled into chaos when war uproots their Newfoundland community in 1940.
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Many posts ask readers which they like better… eBooks or real books. For me, it’s not about like or dislike; it’s about need. After years of typing, crocheting, playing piano, and marking papers, my fingers are calling the shots. And they let me know that it’s easier to touch a screen than to turn a page. I read for two or three hours daily and the right tool for the job and joy of reading is eBook. In fact, there are 334 books on my Kindle right now. 
feel of it firm, solid, and smooth.” I can relate to Kevin’s feeling for, when I first get my hands on my new paperback, there is no containing the happiness. 
