Beach Holidays: Rehoboth Beach Reads

by Nancy Sakaduski (Editor), Denise Stout (Contributor), Terri Clifton

Delve into this delectable selection of 27 short story beach reads, set in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and featuring holidays real and imagined. Beach Holidays contains stories of Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, but you’ll also find National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day, DALD Day, Pi Day, and Stacy McGowen Day. You’ll find out that a wrong number can be just the thing you need, that the Sea Witch isn’t the only apparition in Rehoboth around Halloween, and that a Summer Valentine’s Day makes perfect sense. So, no matter what holiday is on the horizon, curl up and enjoy Beach Holidays .

266 pages, Paperback

Published October 11, 2022

About the author

Nancy Sakaduski has published 100+ articles and 24 books. She co-wrote Scientific English with Robert A. Day. Most recently, she authored How to Write Winning Short Stories, which is based on her experiences running the Rehoboth Beach Reads Short Story Contest and working with dozens of writers to perfect their short stories.

Nancy has a B.A. in Communications from the University of Maryland and an Executive M.B.A. from Loyola College. She currently resides in Chadds Ford, PA, and Lewes, DE.

In 2012 she founded Cat & Mouse Press (http://catandmousepress.com), a small regional publishing company, to create books that are engaging, entertaining, or just plain fun. The company publishes short story anthologies, beach reads, children's books, and regional journals. Cat & Mouse Press also publishes collections of short stories selected by a panel of judges from entries to an annual competition.

AWARDS: Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Award for Nonfiction, 1995, for article "Mapping the Mind"; Best Social Studies Book of the Year designation from Society of School Librarians International, 2003 CALIFORNIA COLLECTION. Passport to History: Ancient Greece named best social studies book for the year 2000 by the Society of School Librarians International. The Beach House was awarded a first place for editing in 2014 by Delaware Press Association and a national first place by the National Federation of Press Women. A Rehoboth ABC received a first place for children's fiction in 2014 from Delaware Press Association.

Reviews

[C.J. Carmichael · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an enjoyable collection of short stories. I found The Cottage on Washington Street by Denise Stout especially charming. Stout captures an entire love story in very few words and gives us a very sweet, satisfying ending.