The Messenger: Horizons – The real life town of Finike, Turkey

I got this image from the Otel Carpe Diem Gold site. It’s one of the images that helped me choose Finike as a location in my story.

I don’t know about you, but I have always read books as a inexpensive form of travel. From Nelson DeMille’s trip through Moscow in “The Charm School” to Clive Cussler’s trip along the Niger River in “Sahara” to W.E.B Griffin’s trip through South America in his “Presidential Agent” series. To me, books were/are a ticket to exotic places I might not ever get the opportunity to see.

The difference between reading and writing is when you’re reading you’re on the tour, and when you’re writing you’re the tour guide. That’s one of the reasons I love writing, to take you places I’ve been and places I want to go. One of those places is Turkey.

In my beginning, Turkey was not a place…