Early & Away Travel Company
For book clubs ready to travel, readers who want to go somewhere meaningful, and anyone who packs a book before they pack anything else.
Meet Stacy
I specialize in literary travel — trips built around books, authors, and the landscapes that shaped them. My clients are book clubs ready to finally go somewhere, and readers who want more than a highlights tour.
I work on commission, so my fee comes from the hotels and operators, not from you. I also host my own small-group cohorts and run a book club for Gen X readers. Travel planning is the job. Everything else feeds it.
More about me →What I Do
You have a group. I plan the trip — logistics, itinerary, and a reading list built around the destination. Your book club travels together to the place the books are set. Commission-based, no fee to you.
How book club travel works →Don't have a group? Join one of mine. Small trips — eight women max — with a five-month reading arc before departure. By the time you arrive, you already know your fellow travelers.
See upcoming cohorts →Traveling solo or with a partner? I plan literary itineraries for individuals and couples too — author homes, independent bookshops, significant landscapes. Milestone trips done properly.
Individual trip planning →Research travel is different from leisure travel. You need time in archives, not theme parks. I plan research trips for novelists, nonfiction writers, and memoirists tracing the geography of their work.
Writer travel planning →For Book Clubs
If you've been meeting for years and the conversation keeps turning to "we should just go" — I can make that happen. I plan book club travel to the places that matter: the city the novel is set in, the landscape that shaped the author, the country your book club keeps returning to. You bring your group; I handle the logistics, the reading list, and the itinerary.
Most book club trips I plan include a reading list built around the destination, a private itinerary, and as much or as little hand-holding as your group wants. My fee comes from the hotels and operators, not from you.
Upcoming Hosted Escapes
The small-group literary escapes — QM2, Yorkshire, the Caribbean, the West of Ireland — outgrew the travel-advisory site and now have their own home. Same trips, same eight-women cohorts, same five-month reading arcs. Just a brand that fits them.
Early & Away is still where you come to plan your own book club trip, build a custom literary itinerary, or work with me as your advisor.
"I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps." Walter Mosley
The Reading Arc
Every hosted trip I run includes a five-month book club arc before departure. Five books. Two calls per month — one public, one for the traveling cohort only. By the time you arrive, you're not strangers. You're the group that's been arguing about the same novels for months.
Five books chosen for the destination — not the canonical titles everyone has already read, but the ones that reward the attention a five-month arc allows.
One public call open to any reader who wants to follow along. One private call for the traveling cohort. The shared reading builds the group before anyone packs a bag.
When the arc begins, the group is set. The arc start date is the real booking deadline — not a marketing construct.
The last book on the list, you finish on the trip. The final discussion happens in Yorkshire, or on a tall ship in the Caribbean, or in the Burren at nine o'clock in the June evening.
The Latchkey Readers
The Latchkey Readers is a Gen X literary community — a Substack and a monthly book club for people who came home to an empty house and read. If you're a serious reader who wants to find your people before committing to a trip, this is where that happens. The book club feeds the hosted cohorts; the trips are where the arc lands.
Join The Latchkey Readers →TL;R
You've heard of TL;DR.
We're the opposite.
Trip announcements, curated reading lists, and the occasional dispatch — before anyone else.