I'm delighted to welcome Blake Salazar to my blog today.
The Paradise Chapter: A Digital Nomad Adventures novel
Have you ever dreamed of leaving your job and humdrum life behind?
Have you ever wanted your vacation to continue indefinitely?
Have you ever fantasized about dropping everything you know and boarding
a plane to the other side of the world?
The Paradise Chapter follows a group of characters who answered
YES to all those questions and have become DIGITAL NOMADS.
Lose yourself in a tropical paradise and experience the
intoxicating freedom, fun and adventures of a diverse bunch of location
independent workers who have decided that the office is wherever they can find
Wi-Fi.
This is the debut novel from a real-life digital nomad.
If you like the wild adventures of The Beach combined with the
thirst for life of Eat, Pray, Love, then you'll love The Paradise Chapter.
Purchase Links
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08VJKPM8J
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJKPM8J
https://books2read.com/u/mqgPrv
Author Bio
– Blake Salazar is a European writer who
managed, a few years ago, to throw off the shackles of the rat-race and travel
the world as one of a growing breed of "digital nomads". Blake has a
remote day job that allows them to work from anywhere, so they have chosen to
be EVERYwhere. Blake has ticked off all continents from their bucket list, and
shows no signs of stopping. The Digital Nomad Adventure series is their first
work of fiction: the inspiration from this nomadic lifestyle was too much of a
temptation!
Social Media Links –
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066429552703
Twitter https://twitter.com/BlakeSalazar_
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Please welcome Blake Salazar who discusses the joys of reading on holidays, and the advantages of Kindle versus physical books.
I love e-readers but miss the extra from physical books.
I distinctly remember the first time I read about the invention of the Kindle. My mind was blown by the tantalising idea that one single slim device, much smaller and lighter than the doorstop-sized novels I tend to enjoy, could contain thousands of books and access literally any book in a few seconds. For those born in the analogue era, this instantaneous access to content that, up to that point, had been obtained via eclectic combinations of library access, taping live television, copying friends’ CDs, photocopying essays, ordering books and waiting weeks for them to arrive, is something that continues to produce a sense of wonder in many of us.
The first time I went on a long backpacking trip, I carted with me several paper books. You know those doorstops I mentioned above? These babies were all 600+ pages (“Anna Karenina” towering among them) and, as I devoured them, I shed them, to lighten my load, sure, but also to leave them for the next person who might turn up on a remote Cambodian beach and suddenly find themselves without anything to read. Heaven forfend!
I really enjoyed picking small family-run resorts that had a bookshelf where they encouraged guests to leave and/or take a book. The selection was always very interesting, and it would tell you a lot about a place’s clientele (some places were full of just crime novels, others had books in mostly one non-English language). There I would leave my “brick” offering with a fun dedication inside, and take something else to read, which I would leave at the next stop, and so on and so forth.
Since I have been travelling with an e-reader, and it’s been several years, I obviously don’t do this anymore. Yes, it is super convenient to have all books at my fingertips, to never run out of something to read, to not kill my back carrying kilos of dead tree matter. But I still go into hotels and cafés and look at their bookshelves. Things there seem to have frozen in time, I guess because many others like me are reading on e-readers, but it is still really enjoyable to look through what people choose to read on holiday. And sometimes you find some little gems, like a book left by its author (I may have been guilty of this too!) hoping that the copy makes its way through as many readers as possible, or you find a different edition of a book you’ve already read, which is always fun.
Nothing can replace that wonderful feeling of looking up from reading a book and finding someone opposite, reading the same book. I miss this also when travelling on public transport in large cities. I used to play “spot the cover” and did sometimes spark up a conversation with people whom I found reading more obscure, beloved books of mine (bonus points if they were cute too!), but e-readers have robbed us of this. Ok, I hear you, maybe you didn’t want everybody to know you were reading Chuck Tingle’s latest work, and that’s fair enough, but I do wish that there was a way to show, IRL, what we are reading even on a Kindle, if we choose to. I wonder if I need to develop this idea more? Who’s in?
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