“This debut author sure knows how to weave a tale! There is so much included in this book, from love to a little intrigue, humor, and new friendships.”
Someday Belongs to Us is a romance by Margie Seaman. Kate Caldwell is seventy-two, has written more than thirty novels, and cannot start the thirty-first. Her publisher wants more explicit scenes; she thinks love is more than that. She books a Panama Canal cruise with her granddaughter to break the block, and does not find the quiet she planned on.
“This debut author sure knows how to weave a tale! There is so much included in this book, from love to a little intrigue, humor, and new friendships.”
Someday Belongs to Us is a contemporary novel by Margie Seaman about a veteran romance novelist who refuses her publisher’s demand to write more explicit sex.
At seventy-two, Kate Caldwell has published more than thirty romance novels in thirty years. Now her editor wants the next one spicier — the focus groups have spoken, the market research is unambiguous. Kate says no. “For thirty years, my success has come from writing novels about romance and love — not pornography. My readers want the real thing. They don’t want some hot sheets hotel quickie encounter. They want love.”
Then the words stop coming altogether.
Blocked and long past deadline, Kate books a two-week Caribbean cruise with her granddaughter Ellie, hoping the sea will shake something loose. It does, though not the way she planned. Her dinner table brings a widowed astronomy professor who has come to photograph the southern constellations, and a charming Italian businessman traveling with his sister — and one of those men is not remotely who he says he is. Meanwhile the swashbuckling pirate Kate invented has taken to appearing in her dreams, arguing with her about her own plot.
Chapters of Kate’s life alternate with chapters of the seafaring romance she is writing, so readers watch the book take shape as her real voyage supplies the material.
Someday Belongs to Us is a novel about work, late-life love, the con artists who hunt lonely older women, and the difference between sex and romance — by a debut novelist who published it at eighty-five. And Margie isn’t done. Follow the next installment of Kate and Edward’s adventures in Someday is Our Horizon.
Category: Romance
Publication Date: June 22, 2022
Publication Date: June 22, 2022
ISBN (paper): 978-1-7368390-7-2
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-7368390-8-9
List Price: $16.95
Pages: 224
Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5
Lise Olsen, Author of CODE OF SILENCE“A fun and lively read about romance, and the real and imagined adventures of a woman writer cruising through her senior years. Once again, Margie Seaman proves age is no obstacle in this swashbuckling debut novel.”
Boys' Mom Reads"With a charming cast of characters, many of whom are retired persons and senior citizens, stunning story-within-a-story, and the tempting treat of a cruise life setting, SOMEDAY BELONGS TO US is an inspiring romance that incorporates later-in-life love and second-change romance. I recommend it to romance readers who enjoy more mature protagonists, cruises, and PIRATES!"
Reading by Moonlight"This fantastic story is a wonderful reminder that anytime in life is the right time to achieve your goals and maybe even find a bit of romance on the high seas."
Someday Belongs to Us is a contemporary novel by Margie Seaman about Kate Caldwell, a seventy-two-year-old bestselling romance novelist who refuses her editor’s demand to write more explicit sex scenes, insisting that her readers want love rather than pornography. Creatively blocked by the fight, Kate takes a two-week Caribbean cruise with her granddaughter, where she meets a widowed astronomy professor, a professional con man targeting older women, and finds the story she had lost.
Someday Belongs to Us is a contemporary novel about a romance writer, and it contains a late-life love story, but it is closer to women’s fiction than to genre romance. Much of the book concerns Kate Caldwell’s working life — deadlines, editors, market research, writer’s block — and the novel’s central argument is about how romance should be written. Margie Seaman keeps the book’s own love scenes closed-door, consistent with what her protagonist is fighting for.
Someday Belongs to Us was written by Margie Seaman and published by Stoney Creek Publishing. It is her debut novel, written in her eighties and published when she was eighty-five. Seaman spent forty years in marketing before founding the website design firm Citation Solutions, which she has led for fourteen years, and she writes The Graytripper, a travel blog encouraging older adults to keep exploring. She lives in Houston, Texas, and dedicated the book “to all my brothers and sisters in age… as proof that goals can be reached at any age in life.”
No. The Fiery Passion of a Thousand Burning Suns is a fictional book. It is the pirate romance that Kate Caldwell, the protagonist of Someday Belongs to Us, is writing over the course of the story. The same is true of her Passion series and her pen name, Desiree Desire — all are invented elements within Margie Seaman’s novel. Neither The Fiery Passion of a Thousand Burning Suns nor any book by Desiree Desire exists as a separate publication, and neither can be purchased. The only real book here is Someday Belongs to Us by Margie Seaman.
Captain Edward Peregrine is a fictional character within a fictional book. He is the swashbuckling pirate hero that Kate Caldwell invented for her novels, and in Someday Belongs to Us he begins visiting her in dreams — brogue, opinions, and all — to help her plot the story and to argue with her about how it should end. He is Kate’s creation, not a historical figure, and the pirate novels he appears in exist only inside Margie Seaman’s book.
Someday Belongs to Us alternates between two storylines. The contemporary chapters follow Kate Caldwell in Texas and aboard a Caribbean cruise. Between them run chapters of the pirate romance Kate is writing, set aboard a Spanish galleon and the ship of Captain Edward Peregrine. The two narratives feed each other: what happens to Kate on the voyage shapes what happens in the book she is drafting.
Yes. A substantial thread of Someday Belongs to Us follows a professional con artist who books cruises to find and manipulate lonely older women, researching his targets in advance and working with a partner posing as his sister. Kate Caldwell is nearly taken in. Margie Seaman treats the episode with sympathy for the victim rather than ridicule, and Kate’s recovery from the humiliation is one of the novel’s central movements.
Someday Belongs to Us was written for adult readers of any age and is particularly well suited to readers over sixty and to book clubs. The love scenes are closed-door and the language is mild. Its subjects — reinvention late in life, the assumption that older women are finished, elder-targeted fraud, and the difference between intimacy and explicitness — are built for discussion.
Margie Seaman has completed a sequel, Someday is Our Horizon. Someday Is Our Horizon. Readers who enjoyed the late-life reinvention of Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove, the older heroines of Helen Simonson’s Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, or the warmth and low-heat romance of Debbie Macomber’s contemporary fiction will find Someday Belongs to Us familiar territory. It also appeals to readers drawn to novels about writers and the writing life.
“This debut author sure knows how to weave a tale! There is so much included in this book, from love to a little intrigue, humor, and new friendships.”
Storeybook Reviews
Read MoreLise Olsen, Author of CODE OF SILENCE“A fun and lively read about romance, and the real and imagined adventures of a woman writer cruising through her senior years. Once again, Margie Seaman proves age is no obstacle in this swashbuckling debut novel.”
Boys' Mom Reads"With a charming cast of characters, many of whom are retired persons and senior citizens, stunning story-within-a-story, and the tempting treat of a cruise life setting, SOMEDAY BELONGS TO US is an inspiring romance that incorporates later-in-life love and second-change romance. I recommend it to romance readers who enjoy more mature protagonists, cruises, and PIRATES!"
Reading by Moonlight"This fantastic story is a wonderful reminder that anytime in life is the right time to achieve your goals and maybe even find a bit of romance on the high seas."
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