Turn Two
by Katy Hale
As a lover of books, and a lover of NASCAR, naturally, I’ve started
reading the Harlequin-NASCAR series books. One of the ladies I work with and I
trade them back and forth. If you haven’t been reading them and you like
romance books and NASCAR. I highly suggest you start.
I recently read one called Turn
Two, written by Nancy Warren with a “cameo appearance” by Carl Edwards, and
it got me thinking. I wonder why more drivers haven’t been included in some of
these books. With a 40% and rising of NASCAR fans being women, wouldn’t you
think it would be some great publicity? A basically free way to get the driver 's
and sponsor's name out there to women? Carl wasn’t the romantic lead in the story.
In fact, he really wasn’t in it too
much. He just made a few appearances as the book went along.
Carl was in the book just enough so that when I told the lady I trade
books with about it, I said “oh yeah, Carl Edwards is in it.” Anytime I think of
Turn Two, or compare it to another
book, what I’ll remember is that Carl was in it.
I’ve loved all of the Harlequin-NASCAR series books I’ve read so far.
They’re all well written and so real. With just one thing missing: A real
driver. Carl being in this one just makes it so much more real to
me.
So again I ask the question: With this being such a great way to market a
driver and sponsor towards women, why haven’t more ‘real’ drivers been included?
I only hope that in the future, more are.
