Oh, Fall. I love you, I do. But I just wish you could be more…well…summery.

This afternoon, my husband dug up the tomato garden after a robust season, and I know I should be looking forward to the festivities of the upcoming holidays, but something about clearing that patch of lawn this year really left me longing—and wondering if it isn’t just the end of a daily tomato bounty that I’m already missing…

Let’s be honest, friends—these have not been easy months—and we are all bracing for some hard ones still to come. We are all doing our very best to keep smiling and keep plugging away, to be our best selves for our loved ones, and to do the right and safe thing.

I don’t know about you all, but for me, there is no warmer, calmer or safer place for my heart and my soul than the water. Give me a whiff of sea air, a splash of foamy surf on my bare feet, a handful of sand to sift through my fingers and I’m close-to-positive that all will be right with the world. And I’m betting I’m not alone.

Which is why it has been especially hard in these past fraught months of staying put to not be able to escape to the beach, when we all need it most.

So I started thinking…if I can’t get to the beach, maybe I can bring the beach to me, even in little ways. Food and drink, music and movies. And, best of all, BOOKS. Because nothing transports us to the shore like a great beach read, right?

And if I want to get to the beach in my mind, maybe other people do too.

So welcome to the #365Beach Club—a place where every day is a beach day, and the sunsets are always the perfect shade of peach. Every month, I send out a newsletter with inspiration and tips to help all of us who can’t get to the water just now stay in a seaside state of mind—as well as a monthly giveaway of a beach read to keep our beach bags full year-round.

So if you’d like to sign up and sink your beach chair into the sand next to me, today is a perfect time because the November newsletter launches in two days, and this month I’m giving away TWO beach reads—Orly Konig’s CAROUSEL BEACH and an ARC of A SUMMER TO REMEMBER—and every subscriber is automatically entered to win!!

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And I’ll see you by the water, friends.

XXOO
Erika