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Walkerville Author Uses Life Resources
Wednesday, November 20, 2002 3:33:00 AM
by Annette DeLore
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| Author Annette DeLore says, "Writing is a fun adventure without leaving home." |
Walkerville Author Uses Life Resources For First Book
By JOHN SZEGDA
Herald-Journal Writer
June 20, 2002
"This is fun, it's a fantasy and I get to go on an adventure without leaving home," Annette DeLore a Walkerville mother turned action adventure romance author said as she looked at her recently published book. "This is my fIrst baby. This book will always hold a special place in my heart, but I'm already working on the sequel."
DeLore's fast paced, but caring and loving personality, already has her writing "Soul Mates," the sequel to "Prisoner of the Heart".
"I'm always striving for different things, and I like to be creative," DeLore said. "'Prisoner of the Heart' is a fast paced book with a lot of romance, and I think that's kind of like what I am." Before she started writing, DeLore was a woman in search of letting her creativeness out. She worked in frozen food and canning plants, drove truck, drove school buses, and was well on her way to becoming a nurses aid.
She became an avid reader and occasionally wrote poetry, but never thought of writing as more than her hobby. That all changed when one of her three daughters, Tarie, started snooping around on her mom's computer one night and came across a little project she had been working on.
DeLore had never known a time that she wasn't reading or telling stories, so she took her hobbies to another level.
"I was working third shift, and whenever I got home from work, everybody was gone so I read a lot of books. I thought to myself, 'well heck, I can write'," DeLore said. "I started writing about my husband and I, about how we've known each other since I was 15, but I thought that was kind of boring. So I started to write a story to put in my hope chest for my kids to read later. My daughter Tarie got on the computer and read what I wrote one night, nobody knew I was writing it, she told me it was as good at V.C. Andrews, so I continued with it." Andrews wrote 'Garden of Shadows, 'Pearls in the Mist', and plenty more books like those.
As the story took shape, the idea that DeLore could write a book became greater. She also started figuring out how she would entrap readers.
"I'm hoping my stories draw readers in like other authors draw me in. I want readers to feel and visualize really what's going on in the story," DeLore, who's favorite author is Nora Roberts, said. "I hope my books are page turners and give people a lot of enjoyment. I like bringing out emotions. 'Prisoner of the Heart' will make some peo- ple cry and some people laugh."
Several manuscripts and rejections later, her first book, 'Prisoner of the Heart,' was published by Publish America this June.
This spring, women writers published by Publish America got together and wrote a book as a tribute to their mothers. DeLore said her mother, Georgia Morningstar, played a huge part in helping her find her niche for writing.
"My mom wanted the kids to have the computer so they can use it, but I wanted to put it in storage," DeLore said. "If my mom wouldn't have came back from Washington D.C. with the computer, I wouldn't have wrote the book. Arid then she pushed and pushed and pushed. I'm thankful for that."
'Prisoner of the Heart,' a 214- page softcover book, took DeLore about 10 months to finish. It's about a secret agent who goes undercover as a prisoner who falls in love with his high school love.
The characters in the book have the middle names of her four children, daughters Karrie Lee, Jaime Lynn, Tarie Lou, and son, Timothy Scott.
"One main character, Dawn, has four children and is a very caring mother. The kids are her world," DeLore said. "And that's me, my kids come first, and I think I bring that through this character. The characters and the children somewhat relate to me arid my family."
The book is available at most major bookstores, and will soon be in area libraries.
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