Rockin’ and Rollin’
By Mike Jastrzebski
I’ve posted about the anchorage we’ve been staying at for the last couple of weeks, but one thing I haven’t mentioned is how much rockin’ and rollin’ the boat endures. This little area of the Middle River is posted for water skiing. The signs say 35 mph limit for single engine boats towing skiers, but most of the boaters who pass by, and on the weekends there are a lot of them, seem to stop reading after 35 mph. Some of the water skiers seem to think it’s fun to get as close as possible to the boats at anchor, and large party boats pass by so close we can almost touch the sides of the boats.
Then there’s the wind tossing us around. It’s been blowing fairly consistently over the last few weeks. Not uncomfortably so, light and steady, but we have had a couple of nights when the wind gusts have hit 20 to 25 knots, with more of the same expected over the next week or so. Which brings me to Elvis.
No, not Elvis the phobic psychic who’s appeared in both of my Wes Darling mysteries, Key Lime Blues and Dog River Blues, but the King of Rockin’ and Rollin’, Elvis Presley.
So how did Elvis get into this post? It seems that all that rockin’ and rollin’ on the water plays havoc with our TV antenna so we’ve been watching Elvis movies for the last few nights on DVD. Some have been good and some bad, but they’ve all been entertaining, at least to the audience they were intended for, young girls in love with Elvis.
As a writer I can appreciate this. I would love to have an audience, young or old, male or female, who loved me no matter what I write, but I don’t. So I have to remind myself as I start work on my new book that what my audience wants is an entertaining book, but they also want a good book, and I’m going to do my best not to let them down. I’ll count on the readers out there to let me know if I fail or succeed, after all that’s what reviews are for and Amazon makes it easy for every reader to share their opinion, so feel free to let me know what you think at any time.
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