Living the life you dream of means some day you have to wake up. For a year I'd traveled the world, sipped vintage Champagne, ate at swanky restaurants and bedded down in suites at five-star hotels. Without opening my purse -- well, maybe twice I opened my purse -- I still paid. Journalism was my game.

          The last…

THE JUNKETEERS

A New Novel

By Julie Besonen & Baroness Sheri de Borchgrave

THE JUNKETEERS: A Tale of Press Trip Thrills & Nightmares

Kindle Direct Publishing, $2.99

March 2014

New York, New York

THE JUNKETEERS is an insider's look at press trips, a fancier name for junkets--the highs, the lows, the adventures and…

Rivers of wine streamed down craggy roads lined with grape vines and surrounded by mountains. At Casa Lapostolle, 350,000 bottles shattered as scores of oak barrels rolled off their rackings. It was February 27, 2010, in the Colchagua Valley (right) Chile’s main wine region.…