Wanted! Novel lovers - especially for stories where negril is the setting!

[johng]

Francis O. Lynn,

Although your book Island Odyssey is in many ways a nice read and love story, I find it quite shallow regarding Negril and its many attractions. You refer to caves on the cliffs and you refer to the island off Rockland point as being a mile offshore which clearly it isn't. Your use of "awesome" in dialogue diminishes the believability that the story was from that era. Ganja was there the sea was there but it isn't convincing that you the author was actually there as you use very few landmarks, people, to tell your story other than your Ghetto Flowers. I read this with anticipation that you would have more actual knowledge about Negril than it seems you do . You talk about people drinking Blue Mountain Coffee, False, Blue Mountains are 100 miles away and people always drank the instant coffee out of the glass jar in Negril because A. They didn't have BM Coffee and B. It was way too expensive. Another time you talk about the sun coming up over the mountain in Negril, again no mountains in Negril. As far as using this board as a launch pad to sell your book that isn't my call but Rob may have some opinion on that (Donating profits to the Negril Community perhaps?). In closing I found Island Odyssey to be a nice love story but the only thing about Negril in the book is it's name.

Cool Runnings (not awesome)