by LoriBenton | Jan 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
From critically acclaimed novelist, Rita Gerlach, comes book 1 in ‘The Daughters of the Potomac Series’, a timeless tale of love and betrayal, loss and redemption against the backdrop of the American Revolution. Book 1 in the long awaited...
by LoriBenton | Jan 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
“The past is where we get the raw material we use…. We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.” ~ James Thom, The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction James...
by LoriBenton | Jan 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’ve spent this month (which is flying by, can it already be the 18th??) doing the background research and developing ideas for two new stories. Now I’ve chosen one of them to push ahead with. Or one has chosen me. Its protagonists have grabbed hold of my...
by LoriBenton | Jan 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
Do you enjoy reading historical fiction? Time-travel? Books set in England/Cornwall? Mysteries? Danger? Adventure? The 18th century? Romance? Lyrical prose that will sweep you away to another time and place and create characters so vivid they live on after the last...
by LoriBenton | Jan 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
While sorting through my prodigious accumulation of research books in an effort to thin the herd, I was leafing through a book on 18th century gardens (which I decided I could not part with), and ran across a bookmark. It was a halfsheet of paper on which I’d...
