Thankful Author 2017- Delsora Lowe

Thank you Angela, for inviting me to your blog!

I am thankful most of all for my family, my son and daughter (happy birthday to my daughter tomorrow), and my three active, smart, and engaging grandsons who are still young enough to “endure” lots of hugs.

I am thankful for my interesting childhood, growing up in a big, diverse city, our nation’s capital, and spending part of my childhood living in several countries overseas, visiting many others, as well as various states in our country. I spent my summers in the Adirondack Mountains and now live in a small coastal town in Maine.

I am thankful to have had a diverse and fulfilling career, mostly in non-profits, working in the fields of domestic violence, sexual assault prevention, and children’s health, a ten-year retail stint at LLBean (customer service, employment, and communications), and most recently in alumni relations in two independent schools and a college, and in college admissions.

I mention all this for a reason. Because of this diverse upbringing and experiences as an adult, life has afforded me contact with everyday heroes and heroines. And allowed me to understand that every human being on this planet has something special to offer this world. These everyday heroes and heroines have become models for not only how I live my life, but for my characters. And for that I am thankful. These characters speak to me every day, tell me their stories, and sometimes take those stories in directions only they knew they could go. I know I channel many of my experiences without realizing it as I write. Can you tell I am a pantzer? This season in particular, I am grateful to offer up a series dear to my heart that takes place in a small Maine town, where my characters have found peace, acceptance, and love away from the big cities in which they grew up.

Using my imagination to write about characters who find love, is my own way of finding beauty and positivity and compassion. That imagination also helps me to clearly see the details we usually take for granted that fill our everyday lives, and to use those details to enrich my character’s worlds. The deep blue of a November sky. The beauty of seed pods as the stocks they are attached to turn brown and fragile, knowing that in the spring new life and brilliant green will come from those seeds. The brilliant colors of leaves that will fall and soon turn brown and decompose, helping nourish the roots of the trees from which they fell. The special scent that fills the air before snow falls and scatters multi-billions of flakes—no two alike. The vivid colors that stand out among the brown of fall and white of winter—pumpkins and chrysanthemums and holly berries and stark black tree limbs against vivid blue skies and golden stars that form the seen-only-in-winter constellations like Orion. Despite the bad things that happen around us, we can each find solace in and be grateful for nature’s beauty and bounty.

I am truly thankful and grateful to my readers and to my writer friends who have offered me so much help and guidance over the years. One of the hardest things to do is to send your “baby” out into the world, never knowing who bought it, who liked it, or who hated it, and why. It’s a leap of faith. So I am indeed grateful for the kind words I have heard from readers. And I vow to openly listen to any words of advice or critiques with an open mind. That is the way I learn.

Here’s to a holiday season full of thanks and peace and acceptance, and a bounty of love.

Delsora Lowe

The Starlight Grille Series

 Give yourself a treat and read Come Dance With Me.

It's a winner.
Kat, Amazon Reader – Five Stars

Come Dance With Me: Book Two, Starlight Grille series.

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Improvisational jazz musician meets buttoned up English teacher—will the Christmas lights sparkle or shatter before the dance ends?

Sam Johnson, a burned out, New York City iconic jazz pianist transplanted to small town Maine, finds himself and his muse again through a disparate group of committed teen musicians and their buttoned up, efficient, high school English teacher who is roped into advising the afterschool jazz club.

Ashley Sullivan, an expert in classical music and teaching the bard, is out of her element when it comes to jazz or anything impromptu and desperately needs Sam’s help. What she doesn’t know is Sam has made it his mission before this gig ends to get Ashley to lighten up and enjoy the things in life she denies herself; music, friends, spontaneity, creativity, and yes, love.

When Sam works to rescue her from her childhood fears, Ashley runs the other direction. Can what is done out of love tear apart a relationship before it’s in full swing, or forever cement a love that is true?

EXCERPT

She watched his graceful body climb the three steps to the stage. She sat close enough to see Sam’s fingers stroke the keys. The notes swirled around her heart and straight to her toes. Ashley closed her eyes and swayed to the slow, sensual rhythms. His tempo eased from slow to fast. Her feet tapped out the beat, the sounds coursing a hot path through her veins. The ebb and flow of jazz, like making love, engulfed her entire being. She held close the urge to moan and sigh. Unlike the night she sat with Mary Beth, now she imagined Sam played only for her.

To think she owned his recordings, but never imagined she’d ever meet the man. His music had been the one thing that made her feel alive these last few years, and now she knew him…like a friend. He still scared the stuffing out of her. Not in a bad way. She hadn’t expected him to like her, and treat her like a friend, when she’d agreed to this after-school partnership. But here she sat.

“He’s something, isn’t he?”

Ashley swiveled toward the voice behind her. A petite, red-headed woman grinned.

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Starlight Grille series

Book One

…a feel good story, full of love and romance and hope….no game playing, no lies, manipulation or underhanded deceit to win affection….just two strong people finding love, learning to trust, and trying to make it work.

The author depicts life in a small town with memorable characters and descriptive scenery.

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Two lives, one legacy—the lure of Parkers Point

One Runs From …

Inheriting his grandfather’s estate on the rocky point in Serenity Harbor, Maine is the perfect escape from the biggest professional disaster of Grayson Mann’s life. Will distance and space help Gray heal old family and professional wounds enough to open his heart to love?

One Runs Toward …

Lauralee Adler struggles to save the family art gallery as she watches her aunt succumb to Alzheimer’s. Returning to the small coastal town is payment for the kindness that saved her life and soul. Now she’s on a quest to find her father. Will this trip home help her learn to trust and finally convince her she can truly belong for the first time in her life?

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Book Three

Preorder Now ~ Releases on December 7, 2017

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A blast from the past, a ten-year old matchmaker with a valentine wish, an omission, and a villainous man…
a recipe for disaster? Or love against all odds?

Tucker Benson’s decision to move to a new town, build a new business, and protect his daughter does not include finding a replacement for his cheating wife. But his ten-year old daughter has other plans.

And she’s found the one!

Mary Beth Walters’ life is up-to-the-brim full. When her high school crush, a single father, moves to town, she is tempted. Only problem is, he doesn’t recognize her. That could be a good thing. Or end in trouble.

When Tucker discovers the secret Mary Beth holds close to her heart, will love be enough to overcome broken trusts?

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AUTHOR BIO

From Cabins to Cottages…Keep the Home Fires Burning

A transplanted big city gal, world-wide traveler, and foreign-service brat, who now lives in a coastal Maine town, Delsora Lowe loves to write about small town heroes from the cowboys and ranchers of Colorado to the game wardens and lobstermen of Maine. Her work in the hospitality industry, rape crisis, admissions, alumni relations, and women’s advocacy has allowed her to interact on a daily basis with real life heroines and heroes. Lowe’s family visits to Colorado are the inspiration for an upcoming contemporary western series in 2018. And her daughter’s wedding and her son’s home on the coast of Maine provided plentiful ideas for the Starlight Grille series.

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