One more week until October 12th!
If you are planning to pre-order Holding Fast: A Memoir of Sailing, Love, and Loss, please pre-order on October 12th! I'm thrilled whenever you order, but if everyone pre-orders on the same day, October 12th, it will help my Amazon ratings.
Holding Fast is a story of leaving everything behind to follow my husband John's dream of sailing away. Many people dream of escape but few actually go.
My journey took me from the glitzy world of Madison Avenue advertising to riding out Hurricane Mitch, the largest hurricane on record at the time, on a sailboat in Guatemala. I didn't want to go in the first place, but ended up on a life-changing odyssey.
"A wife follows her husband to sea and finds herself along the way in this memoir…A perfect, realistic counterpart to Amity Gaige's Sea Wife (2020), Cole's moving memoir is emotionally astute, and her use of excerpts from the Laughing Goat's log provides welcome insights into John's perspective. Vivid characterizations…The author's voice is so assured…"
—Kirkus Review
Only seven days to go!
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