I've been looking forward to announcing this for weeks. Friend and fellow historical fiction author Pat Iacuzzi is a multi-talented woman. Not only does she write with a strong and lovely voice, she also creates dolls for some of New York's historical sites. These...

Every Friday for the month of August (at least) I thought I'd round up the interviews about Burning Sky that have gone live during the previous week and put them together for anyone interested in reading them. This week I'm including the early blog reviews I've been...

Here is the mostly complete bibliography I used while researching Burning Sky. This doesn't include endless trips to the internet to track down bits and pieces, a few library books I likely forgot to record, long since returned. Or the four years worth of research on...

You have until July 31 to head over to Jennifer Major's blog, Tales From The Redhead, for a chance to win a copy of Burning Sky. You'll need to follow Jenn's instructions to enter the drawing. But don't worry. They're easy. 🙂 I hope you'll take a moment to read my...

“Lori Benton gives us seasons in her debut novel Burning Sky. Seasons of planting corn, beans and pumpkins as backdrops to the ripening and challenges of lives working through chaos after a war and a terrible personal tragedy. [She] gives us seasons of the journey...

    And he [King Solomon] spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. 1 Kings 4:33 JKV The 1 Kings passage above...

On July 7, 1806, Meriwether Lewis and nine members of the Corps of Discovery ascended to the Continental Divide on their journey east from the Pacific Ocean... On the afternoon of July 6, 2013, my party and I followed in their footsteps. Splitting up the Corp...

The 18th century frontier family had much in common with the way Americans live and look at life in the twenty-first century. Getting by these days is challenging on many fronts, requiring more creativity and partnership in a family than often was the case just a...

For today's Research Wednesday post I'm highlighting a wonderful find I came across on line. In 1864, while civil war raged across the United States, a Congregational minister named Elias Hillard set out on a mission to find six men. There was urgency in his quest....