{"id":1929,"date":"2018-07-26T08:30:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T08:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crazy4fiction.com\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2022-02-24T10:51:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T10:51:37","slug":"five-days-in-skye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/crazy4fiction\/five-days-in-skye\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Book: The Story of Five Days in Skye"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A guest blog\u00a0post by <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Zveagq\"><em>Five Days in Skye<\/em> <\/a>author Carla Laureano<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When I pitched the idea of my debut romance novel, <em>Five Days in Skye<\/em>, at the American Christian Fiction Writers conference in 2012, the idea of a Christian contemporary romance set in Europe was a fairly unusual one. There had been other books set overseas, of course, but American settings were still the norm. At one meeting, after I described the premise of an American businesswoman who learns to unplug and let go during a trip to the Isle of Skye, the editor leaned back in his chair and asked, \u201cWhy Scotland? Why Skye? Do you have some sort of personal connection to it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a manner of speaking, I do. The fact is, at one point in my life, I had been Andrea Sullivan, with all the anxiety and a less impressive shoe collection. In 2004, my husband and I took a trip to Europe, which ended with several days on the Isle of Skye, doing nothing but hiking and sightseeing and relaxing. I\u2019d been working as a marketing manager for a medical device manufacturer, and the previous year had been an endless stretch of trade shows and business trips with long office hours in between. I was so stressed out that I would wake up with a knot of dread in my stomach each morning, and I would end each day with half a bottle of wine on the patio. To say I needed a break was an understatement. There, looking out onto the blue waters of the Sound of Sleat, I took my first deep breath in what felt like years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1930 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/crazy4fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/06\/FDIS-Blog-Image-e1645698581392.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4847\" height=\"3231\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then I went home to find flight reservations in my in-box for another business trip. A couple of weeks later, I found myself standing in an airport staring blankly at the departures board, unable to remember what city I was in or where I was going next. I realized I\u2019d come to a turning point. And that was the beginning of my extraction from corporate life.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward eight years later, as I pondered writing a contemporary romance novel about a burned-out, stressed-out businesswoman. I immediately knew I had the perfect setting for her transformation in the Isle of Skye. Add in a Scottish celebrity chef trying to outrun his playboy reputation, and I had the ideal foil for my closed-off, hardworking consultant. Given the setting and the company, how could Andrea do anything but dream of a life beyond an unending string of business trips?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been nearly fifteen years since that trip, and the changes it spurred apparently took, because I left my corporate career behind permanently, and I\u2019m currently a full-time novelist and a full-time mom. But 2024 is coming up awfully quickly, making me think that a twentieth anniversary trip is in order. Given that the first trip resulted in a change of career and a completely new life, I can\u2019t help but wonder what amazing things might come out of a return visit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2GenUEr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3284 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crazy4fiction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FDISCTA.png\" alt=\"Buy the novel Five Days in Skye by author Carla Laureano\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2UJ4lw6\">Five Days in Skye<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2UJ4lw6\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crazy4fiction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Five-Days-new-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Five Days in Skye by author Carla Laureano\" width=\"384\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a> by Carla Laureano<\/h2>\n<p>Andrea Sullivan is so consumed by her hospitality-consultant job that she\u2019s forgotten what brings her joy. She dreads her new assignment\u2014a last chance to snag a high-profile client in Scotland. Yet the lush Isle of Skye transcends her preconceptions. As does the man she must impress, the rugged, blue-eyed Scotsman James MacDonald.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s passionate about cooking, but after six restaurants, four cookbooks, and his own television show, he\u2019s grown weary of the scrutiny that comes with living in the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>Soon Andrea and James begin to sense these five days in Skye together may just be God\u2019s wild invitation into deeper life . . . and truer love.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2S8FT3r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crazy4fiction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/London-Tides-FDIS-CTA.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3728\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A guest blog\u00a0post by Five Days in Skye author Carla Laureano When I pitched the idea of my debut romance novel, Five Days in Skye, at the American Christian Fiction Writers conference in 2012, the idea of a Christian contemporary romance set in E...","protected":false},"author":1266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,216,19],"tags":[13,14],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Crazy4Fiction | Behind the Book: The Story of Five Days in Skye<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/crazy4fiction\/five-days-in-skye\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Crazy4Fiction | Behind the Book: The Story of Five Days in Skye\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A guest blog\u00a0post by Five Days in Skye author Carla Laureano When I pitched the idea of my debut romance novel, Five Days in Skye, at the American Christian Fiction Writers conference in 2012, the idea of a Christian contemporary romance set in Europe was a fairly unusual one. 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