{"id":66737,"date":"2026-08-05T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=66737"},"modified":"2026-08-05T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:04:00","slug":"a-new-novel-from-dxer-ralph-w-perry-pacific-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/a-new-novel-from-dxer-ralph-w-perry-pacific-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Novel from DXer Ralph W. Perry: Pacific Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Ralph W. Perry, a longtime DXer and author, for sharing news of his latest novel, Pacific Dream – Mari Mango & an Accidental Orphanage<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is the third novel in Ralph\u2019s Pacific Trilogy, following Pacific Odyssey, which we featured here on the SWLing Post in 2024<\/a>. While Pacific Dream is certainly a departure from our usual radio-related fare, Ralph\u2019s long experience as a DXer\u2014and his decades of living and traveling in Southeast Asia\u2014give his fiction a distinctly international flavor.<\/p>\n

The story follows twenty-two-year-old Marielle Margaux, who flees to Thailand following a cheating fianc\u00e9 and a scandal at her charity job. Hoping to disappear into anonymity, Mari instead finds herself mistaken for a Western nun and handed the keys to a crumbling seaside hotel. Before long, she is responsible for an unlikely refuge for women and babies escaping Bangkok\u2019s bar-girl world, forcing her to navigate frightened mothers, hungry infants, suspicious villagers, and a particularly earnest graduate student who seems to appear at precisely the wrong moments.<\/p>\n

Ralph describes the book as \u201ca funny, warm, cross-cultural novel about reinvention, cultural misfires, identity, and the messy ways we end up saving one another.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, as Ralph puts it, this is what happens when you \u201csend a DXer abroad for three decades\u201d\u2014a \u201clovingly wry view of the situation one finds himself in!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>For a limited time, Ralph is offering the ebook as part of a special launch-week promotion. The ebook is just $0.99 through Thursday, with the price returning to normal on Friday.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in international travel, Southeast Asian culture, or simply enjoy a good cross-cultural adventure with a healthy dose of humor, you may want to give Ralph’s latest novel a look.<\/p>\n

Click here to check it out on Amazon.com.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Note that this affiliate link supports the author and the SWLing Post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Ralph W. Perry, a longtime DXer and author, for sharing news of his latest novel, Pacific Dream – Mari Mango & an Accidental Orphanage. This is the third novel in Ralph\u2019s Pacific Trilogy, following Pacific Odyssey, which we featured here on the SWLing Post in 2024. While Pacific Dream […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[251,3],"tags":[11162,10173],"class_list":["post-66737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news","tag-pacific-dream","tag-ralph-perry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hmp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":59368,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/pacific-odyssey-latest-novel-by-dxer-ralph-perry\/","url_meta":{"origin":66737,"position":0},"title":"Pacific Odyssey: Latest Novel by DXer Ralph Perry","author":"Thomas","date":"March 27, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ralph Perry, who shares the following announcement: Big news here is that after five years of hard work, yesterday was publication day for DXer Ralph Perry's second novel, written under the pen name of Chet Nairene: \"PACIFIC ODYSSEY - The Curious Journey of Lew\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Books"","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Odyssey-Novel.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Odyssey-Novel.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Odyssey-Novel.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Odyssey-Novel.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":59899,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/pacific-odyssey-kindle-ebook-only-99-cents-this-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":66737,"position":1},"title":"Pacific Odyssey: Kindle eBook only 99 cents this week","author":"Thomas","date":"June 3, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post contributor and DXer, Ralph Perry, who shares the following announcement (click here for more background in a previous post) : 99-CENT \u2018PACIFIC ODYSSEY\u2019 WEEK IS HERE! 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