by LoriBenton | Jun 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
I was thinking this morning about writing a post acknowledging the fact that things have seemed to move very slowly for me during the past year+ since I’ve had my wonderful agent, Wendy, shopping two of my novels around to publishers. No slower than they were...
by LoriBenton | Jun 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
My writing journey has been a long one. Most who know me know that. There have been times I’ve felt very close to being published, times I felt light years from any such thing. Times when writing was a joy, times when it was utter frustration. Times when I...
by LoriBenton | Jun 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
If you stop me on the street and ask me what a frizzen is, I can tell you.For the past two days I’ve been working on a scene in which a character of the 18th century who has never fired a gun before needs to learn to fire a flintlock pistol (not a rifle; those...
by LoriBenton | May 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
Well, technically I don’t write Colonial American fiction, but I do write fiction set in the late 18th century, which is pretty close. And if these nudgings and whisperings from characters in the wings mean what I think they mean, after my current work in...
by LoriBenton | May 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
I thought about posting this question on Facebook, but realized it’s a little more involved than that format allows. Here’s the thing; today I’m finishing up a novel (reading) in which the main character dies in the end. I didn’t know this was...
by LoriBenton | May 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
Flightless, because they are no more. Today I just wanted to give a shout out to a bird that used to grace our eastern forests, the Carolina Parakeet. These bright, beautiful birds were driven to extinction by the early 1900s, but in 1787 they would still have...
