Editor’s Word: That is the second in a sequence of tales concerning the literary work of Sikeston resident LaDona DeKriek.
To take a look at Sikeston resident and East Prairie native LaDona DeKriek in the present day, you’ll see a prim and correct, prosperous 82-year-old immersed within the comforts of a really good life.
Nonetheless, the adage of not judging a guide by its cowl is sarcastically correct in learning DeKriek’s journey so far.
She has authored two books, “Mom’s Little Alibi” and “In Spite of Mom,” below the title of Lydia Constantine over the previous two years, which element the travails of her attention-grabbing path by life.
“It’s been a really harmful life,” DeKriek defined, “on this first guide, particularly. However I’m not fearful.
“I’m a type of individuals who took harmful probabilities plenty of instances.”
“Mom’s Little Alibi” has its origins in DeKriek compiling her ideas and household notes 30 years in the past, as she developed an curiosity in her family tree.
“All people was dying within the older technology,” DeKriek defined. “I had at all times been all in favour of (family tree).”
She and her father had pursued the data crucial to realize membership within the Daughters of the American Revolution.
“When somebody died,” DeKriek mentioned, “the household would begin throwing stuff away. I’d decide it up and ask if I might have it.”
She started to place the data in some order three many years in the past, however just for her household’s sake. The considered publishing the data as a guide had by no means occurred to her till a dialog with a “thriller author,” Dan Petrosini, at an occasion in Florida acquired her considering far more severely about doing so.
She had requested Petrosini about the place to get the “15 chapters” revealed in guide kind as a Christmas reward for members of the family. Nonetheless, after studying by her writings, he thought she is perhaps on to one thing.
“He mentioned that he had two issues to inform you,” DeKriek recalled. “The primary one is unhealthy information. The unhealthy information is that you just’re not well-known, and it’s exhausting to promote a memoir when you’re not well-known.
“The second factor is that you must be promoting this (story). It’s too good to only give to your loved ones.”
Petrosini related her together with his writer and formatter, who’s somebody who places the guide in a structured, extra readable method, and it has fared properly on Amazon guide lists, in addition to by Barnes and Noble.
