Having coffee the other day with an author friend who had just read my book MIAMI P.I. She commented that it was such an easy relaxing read and she loved the style.

I told her I read a lot of books, but I don't have time for epic novels anymore, I read a hell of a lot of J.R. Rain, Eve Paludan, John Locke, you know, bubblegum books. She looked at me like I was mad and asked,

"What's a Bubblegum Book?"

A bit of fun, a sweet little morsel you can chew on, enjoy it, and then spit it out and move to the next.

You can read a whole Bubblegum Book in a single sitting on a lazy Sunday afternoon or over a couple of days worth of stolen moments, a chapter or two here and there with a cup of coffee.

I coined the phrase a few years ago with a few reading mates and it stuck. My iPad (Kindle) is loaded with 268 books at this moment. I have read all but a few over the last two years. That a rate of 2.723 days per book.

My wife and I are both very busy. She goes to work early and gets home late, and I work/write from home, so seeing that in a 24 hour period I sleep, I work, I write, I run kids to and from school, I handle breakfast, I make lunches and I cook dinners. So I steal reads in any spare moment I can find, ten minutes here, twenty minutes there, a few times a day and a read to get to sleep.

What's more fun than Bubblegum?