Loving Zelda, A Story of Change, Reluctantly Told

by Wes DeMott

Overview

This beautifully written novel explores the emotional pain and damage inflicted on a writer and his relationship with the woman he loves as she struggles with manic-depression. Through almost ten years of hardship he loves and cares for her with unwavering devotion, but when she marries another man he becomes a recluse on his sailboat, waiting for a chance to be together again in this or any world.

Challenge your emotions with this beautiful story that proves we all have a chance to be loved. Loving Zelda gives an unusual glimpse of the soft-as-cotton side of Wes DeMott.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013667518
Publisher:	Admiral House Publishing
Publication date:	01/19/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	230 KB

About the Author

Wes is a real-life adventurer, one of those people who turns life on its head and shakes the change from its pockets. A global traveler, yacht rat, intellectual, surf bum, actor, romantic, former F.B.I./S.W.A.T. Agent and Security Consultant, raconteur and all-around fun guy, Wes can debate Voltaire and Rousseau while wrenching on a greasy diesel far out at sea, or drop into a point break wave as skillfully as he’s crept within grasp of wild game.

Over the past dozen years Wes has garnered international acclaim for his novels about prisoners of war, the FBI, military assassins, and spies. In his literary novel, Loving Zelda, he wrote about hope and loss and the chance to change our lives if we’re fearless enough to try. Tortuga Gold reflects a fun new chapter in Wes’s own life as he’s joined in his adventures by his beautiful Belgian wife.

Wes’s love of the ocean often plays into his short stories and novels. He’s boated thousands of miles on dozens of his own boats, surfed world famous breaks, and caught or speared game fish since he was thirteen. In 2010, after sailing from the Chesapeake Bay to Florida’s West Coast and selling their residence, Wes and Sabine made a permanent move aboard their new boat, a trawler they named Wasafiri (“The Wanderers” in Swahili). After a shakedown cruise of 1200 miles, Wes took off for Bocas del Toro, Panama, planning to pick up Sabine in Isla Mujeres, Mexico. But the voyage was cut short when Wes shipwrecked in violent seas off the western tip of Cuba and was rescued by the Carnival Cruise ship, VALOR. When Wes abandoned ship he left behind all their possessions except their cat and his American flag. Immediately after the Coast Guard told Sabine of the rescue, she texted a friend a message that well defines the way these two live: “Boat lost at sea. Wes and crew alive. All possessions gone. New adventures ahead.”

The couple spent a few months in Mexico and in June of 2011 they moved to Portland, Oregon to begin exploring America’s Pacific Northwest. Their shopping list of replacement items included backpacks, a good knife, Merrill hiking boots, and of course, a replacement adventure hat for Wes.