Longtime La Jolla-based awriter Arielle Ford filters her wisdom and experience into 'The Love Thief'
This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. The writer, author, publicist, public speaker and overall multi-hyphenate has written a number of self-help books centering on the more spiritual side of love and romance. At one point during our interview she even went so far as to describe herself as a “queen of the new-age Baby Boomer” mentality.
Still, she put it off. Then one day, she made herself a promise. She says she knew that most of the novel would take place in Rishikesh, a small, riverside city in the Himalayan foothills of India. It’s a deeply spiritual place, according to Ford, and while she had visited the city a number of times, she felt she needed to go again in order to fully actualize the story swirling around in her head.
“Things that I had once only seen in my imagination I began to trip over in real life,” Ford reflects. “I found the bookstore that’s in the novel. The owner of that bookstore looked like the guy in my head. Stuff just started to reveal itself and magic happened every time I turned around. So I just began taking notes. Lots and lots of notes.”
Ford shares photos with me of the bookstore she encountered and the nearby Ganges River, the same landmarks her protagonist encounters in the novel. The author is quick to point out, however, that the book isn’t about her, but rather, anyone who “has ever been betrayed by a lover.” Originally from Florida, Ford has certainly accomplished quite a lot and worn many hats in her 70 years. She moved to Los Angeles in 1984 and eventually to La Jolla in 1994. Over the years, she worked as a publicist for big-name clients such as Deepak Chopra and Neale Donald Walsch. She says she was content with being a “behind-the-scenes person,” writing and contributing to a few books here and there.
“I’m happy that I did it now, but the process of it was so intimidating,” Ford says, adding that she’d often print out the positive notes on the book she’d received back from friends in hopes of inspiring herself to keep going.
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