Romance Author Delsora Lowe has a New Contemporary Novella

Welcome back contemporary romance author Delsora Lowe. She’s here to tell us more about her writing life and the new release she has coming in just a few days.

Take it away, Delsora Lowe….

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A little about me…

I’ve been writing for over fifteen years, but it wasn’t until right before I retired that I published my first book. With a career in a variety of non-profits and hospitality most of my life, my work “adventures” gave me a chance to travel and meet a variety of people. As with most authors, I imagine, there are tidbits of each of our lives represented in all our stories.

Do you ever experience writer’s block?

I have bouts of not having the energy to write, but I rarely shut down…until this year. All that is going on in the world and our country has made it hard for many of us, me included, to concentrate and dig deep into our imaginations. Which leads me to the next question—

Where do I get my book ideas?

The ideas for the book I will release at the end of this month, October 2020, came to me this last spring. The pandemic had just started and I was waiting for edits to come back on another book. Truthfully, my brain had shut down. On one of my writer loops, a friend put up a string of writing prompts. Two of them ran though my head over and over. One afternoon, while I was taking a walk to clear my head from endless editing, the two prompts, (1) one meets another at a wedding AND (2) one learns a shocking secret about the other, melded into a story line.  The Love Left Behind was born. This is a mid-life, second chance, secret baby book. I had such fun writing this story. In fact, not sleeping well, I did a lot of writing in the wee hours of the night. Many times, authors slow down as they reach the mushy middle of our stories. We may know how the story ends—a happily-ever-after, of course—but we might have to push through filling in the middle to link the beginning to the end. This book practically wrote itself, and for that I’m grateful. Of course, there were many rounds of editing in between before the final draft was produced…

Is anything in your book based on real life experiences or purely all imagination?

Even though the book came from my imagination, I believe all authors in some way insert their experience into their books. As I went through The Love Left Behind for its final read, I realized there are nuggets that I dropped into this book that reflect specific experiences in my life.

I had a brief career as a manager of a small event venue that was once a summer estate in the Northeast for a New York tycoon from the late 1800s. They would arrive by train from the city on the railroad that still runs through the small town. The original gardens were landscaped by the architect of New York City’s Central Park. The mansion was turned into an event venue. I helped plan a lot of weddings there…and have many stories to tell about that occupation, so it was great fodder for this story.

The book’s Thanksgiving dinner scene has a recipe from a woman who was a great friend of my mom’s. She passed away, but she was like a second mother to me, as was my aunt. So I paid homage to both women by using their names (and some ingredients from the recipe) in the book. For some reason I have always loved old cars. Not that I know anything about them, but…on my last trip to a writer’s conference in Rhode Island, I drove by a sign for Jay Leno’s museum of antique cars. I plan to visit the next time I go to RI. But a few years ago, I did go to a wedding reception that took place in an antique car museum near Boston. I used that car collection in this book. My several trips to the Newport, RI area for writer’s retreats were inspiration for the setting.

All authors build a world when they write a story. Because I write contemporary romance, bits and pieces of my life experience tend to be used to build my character’s story. Those bits and pieces in a story do not mimic my life, but are used to build and add color to my fictional characters. It’s always fun for me to weave a little part of myself and my life into each story, even though as I write I am not aware of doing that.

How did you come up with the title?

Usually I am able to come up with titles as I write the book. For some reason, I struggled with finding a title for this one. As I mentioned above, my brain has been mush for most of 2020, so I will blame the difficulty on that. After coming up with a list of over fifty ideas and discarding most, I narrowed the list down to about seven. I sent them off to other writer friends. Of course, everyone had a different opinion. One day, I heard a song on the radio. I wasn’t really listening, as I was preoccupied with something else. But suddenly one line of the song stuck in my brain. I looked up the song lyrics on the computer, and—YAY—I had found my title. I did tweak the line to come up with the title: The Love Left Behind.

The Love Left Behind is now at the formatters and will be released by the end of October. As with all great plans these days, life got in the way for releasing at the end of September. But we are working as fast as we can to get The Love Left Behind out…soon.

Zara will let you know when the book is posted on Amazon and Books2Read, where you can link to many other book vendors including Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Kobo, etc.

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The Love Left Behind by Delsora Lowe

Her only worry was the out-of-control mother-of-the-bride, until the past slammed head first into the present.

Marlee Thomas looks at life head-on. No looking back, no second chances on what could have been. Except to thank her great aunt one more time for giving her love, a home, a legacy, and the means to mold an event planning business she loves.

Brian Mason is on his own. Left behind is his family’s law firm legacy and a disastrous marriage born out of family loyalty. He’s starting fresh, away from the big city where his surname is infamous.

Coincidence finds Marlee and Brian face to face for the first time in twenty-seven years. She the event planner, he the divorced father of the bride.

Mixed signals, a secret baby, instant passion ignited years ago, and second chances divide the years. Can either forgive past mistakes to learn to love again?

The Love Left Behind will be released in late October and found on Amazon and Books2Read.

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Read an Excerpt of The Love Left Behind

The broad-shouldered man dressed in a crisply tailored tux appeared in the entryway as his wife sailed toward the table, waving like a queen. He, too, screamed confidence, as he ambled through the room with shoulders back, chin high. But instead of leaving a wake behind him like his wife, his stride was slow, measured. He glanced around, waved to friends, or stopped to proffer his palm to another.

Marlee couldn’t take her eyes off him.

When he turned her way, his eyes bored into her. The vivid blue lapis like none she’d seen since— Oh. No.

She shook her head so hard she listed and almost lost her balance from atop her bordering on sensible two-inch heels. An arm reached out to cup her elbow.

“You all right?” Darcy asked.

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Learn more about Delsora Lowe

Delsora Lowe writes small town sweet and spicy romances and contemporary westerns from the mountains of Colorado to the shores of Maine.

Author of the Starlight Grille series, Serenity Harbor Maine novellas, and the Cowboys of Mineral Springs series, Lowe has also authored short romances for Woman’s World magazine. Her new novella, The Love Left Behind, will release in October, 2020.

Social Media Links

Author website: www.delsoralowe.com
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Amazon Author page: https://www.amazon.com/Delsora-Lowe/e/B01M61OM39/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
Books2Read Author page: https://www.books2read.com/ap/8GWm98/Delsora-Lowe
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