by LoriBenton | Jun 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
For the longest time I’ve admired those ladder bookcases, you know the ones with the slanted front, with shelves that get narrower as they go up. The bigger ones look like an A-frame sliced in half, at least from the side. With every new novel in progress, I...
by LoriBenton | Jun 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Or We-Search Wednesdays, for alliteration’s sake. Today I’m highlighting a little book that packed a big punch when it came to outfitting botanist, artist, and physician Neil MacGregor, one of the main characters in Burning Sky. Living History, Drawing on...
by LoriBenton | Jun 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Though it doesn’t have a snappy alliterative title like Teaser Tuesdays, still I thought it might be a nice feature for this quiet blog each week to share a research source I’m finding particularly helpful or engrossing.Today I’m highlighting a book...
by LoriBenton | May 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Coming to terms with times of waiting is inevitably part of most writers’ journeys. Mine too. I started “seriously” writing in December of 1991 I wrote several novels, queried many publishers (back in the 90s you could do this without an agent in...
by LoriBenton | May 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Narratively speaking, would you rather have description served dense, like pound cake, or light, like sponge cake? I confess that most times now a little description goes a long way, if it’s well considered and carries the flavor of the character through whose...
by LoriBenton | May 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
You can tell by that silly post title that my head’s in a bit of a spin. Today I bring you one of my life’s more surreal moments…. These are ARCs, or Advance Reading Copies. They aren’t the finished book, but...
