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...
by LoriBenton | Jan 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Happy New Year! I’m kicking off 2012 on the blog by posting the books I read, fiction and nonfiction, over the past year. This is the second year I’ve kept a record of my reading, and while I didn’t read as many books in 2011 as I did in 2010, still...
by LoriBenton | Dec 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
In ages past the Celtic tribes of Britain spoke of a Time Between Times, those blurred twilight borders between day and night, between seasons, between one year and the next. It’s a time when the eyes of the earth are closing for slumber, when the sun retreats...
