La Libertad: Where were you born?
Alora: I was born in Los Angeles.
La Libertad: Tell us about your new novelette?
Alora: "Love Me Like a Waterfall" is an inspirational story about a broken heart, adventure, redemption, and the courage to love again, with a hint of mysticism through water.
Mattie, our young heroine, has a long-term relationship with a rock star named Donald. Their relationship keeps clashing due to his career. Donald invites Mattie to a party, and she is shocked when he introduces her as a songwriter and not his girlfriend. Brokenhearted, she leaves him. A few months later, Donald comes back to Mattie, after getting a phone call from her friend. He begs for her to come back to him, but she decides it is best to move on.
She takes a vacation to Brazil, and meets a mysterious exotic man who turns her world upside down. They build a friendship, and Mattie desires to take it to the next level, but she remembers her checkered past. She parts ways with the exotic stranger, and returns home refreshed and filled with more wisdom.
By a chance of serendipity, she bumps into a man she saw back in Brazil, who took her fancy for a moment. They have a strange encounter, meet again in water, and she realizes she can have the courage to be loved like a waterfall. Like a lotus, love blooms and wilts with time, but it can be reborn. And just like a waterfall, it comes back full stream to the source of one’s heart, never closing out.
La Libertad: What inspired you to become a writer?
Alora: I was inspired at an early age through storytelling, and it just blossomed from there.
La Libertad: What do you love most about the creative process?
Alora: [What] I love most about the creative process [is that] I can create things out of thin air. I can dig way back into my mind, and pull something out that is essentially worthwhile. ...[F]or example, the character Mattie is a combination from a book I read a long time ago about a woman gaining independence and emotional growth from a friend I knew once. I create from what I see and don’t see.
La Libertad: What talents and hobbies do you have?
Alora: I love to listen to music, rock collecting, and [watching] movies.
La Libertad: Who are the biggest influences on your work?
Alora: Some of my biggest influences [stem from] what gives me the creation of the story at the time. For example, "Love Me Like a Waterfall" was inspired by several key things, such as emotional pain from past relationships, from myself, other people, and ties to family, ex-boyfriends, and Melody Gardot’s music that helped influence this piece. My writing has always had a deep, hidden feel to it, but I am influenced by D.H. Wells*, Robert [Lee] Frost, and [Lord Alfred] Tennyson. I would say I like the classics more than anything, and a recent author [whose writing] I have been reading... Catherine Crookson.
La Libertad: Where have you traveled?
Alora: I have mostly traveled the West Coast and Southwest so far. I haven’t gone out the country just yet, but soon, in time...
La Libertad: What are your career goals?
Alora: My career goals are to keep writing books and publish those, so many others can read new adventures.
La Libertad: What new projects are you working on?
Alora: I am currently working on two books. One is a novelette, and the other is a novel.
La Libertad: What upcoming events, if any, do you intend to participate in?
Alora: I am not currently participating in any events... but in [a] few months I shall.
La Libertad: What links would you like to share?
Alora: I can share my links, such as:
www.ldcole.com and
www.twitter.com/ldabria
La Libertad: What else, if anything, would you like to tell our readers?
Alora: The writing of romanticism with a deep level of sophistication takes your breath away, and even reading it raises your spirits. I write beyond my years, yet writing about love inspires the heart and mind even more with more drama. Please check out my book Love Me Like a Waterfall, and thank you.
Introduction by William Mortensen Vaughan
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* Perhaps the most famous D.H. Wells is Daniel Hanmer Wells, a Mormon Apostle, the third Mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Nauvo Legion, involved in the Mountain Meadows Massacre, but this may not be who Alora is referring to.
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