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Entrepreneur turned author, Connie Fleenor has written of her experience as a start-up business owner and life on a sailboat in her new book, On the Hard in Paradise. Fleenor has written award winning essays and contributed to the Indie Times and multiple writers' discussion groups. Connie Fleenor was born in the Pacific Northwest and has lived in Silicon Valley during the dotcom explosion, on 92 Acres in the foothillsof the Sierra Nevada and on a 48' catamaran in the Virgin Islands. She now lives in Sacramento where she is working on her memoir Working Vacation. She will be on a book tour in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands in February.   Like the capsizing of a boat On the Hard in Paradise plunges you into the deep end of the Virgin Islands. Answering the question, What would it be like to leave everything behind and move to a Caribbean island. The best and the worst, the coral reefs and the crime of this exotic destination. This is the true account of the author's remarkable year living on a catamaran in the West Indies with her husband and son. Thirty-eight short chapters, with titles like Hurricane Glance, 92 Acres to 48 Feet, Keep Left, and Sailing Camp, take the reader strolling under palm trees and wading into this West Indies adventure.   Fleenor’s writing is often lyrical and highly evocative, as when she describes a drive to Mountain Top: “Rain had washed clean the thick green foliage lining the road. It was like driving through a soft, jade tunnel lit occasionally by light wafting through the canopy of palm trees. Royal palm leaves the size of elephant ears and platter-size leaves of the heartleaf anthuriums swayed overhead. Love vines climbed the trunks of palm and tamarind trees and mingled with the elite leaves that had a view of the sky and looked down on the thick undergrowth.”   - Mangrove Books Review