by LoriBenton | Mar 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week I took a day off from writing and went on a road trip with my camera, my first such outing since before Christmas. I spent sunrise on the southern Oregon coast then headed south into northern California. My goal was another beach about an hour and half away,...
by LoriBenton | Mar 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
Coming to bookstores near you, online and brick-and-mortar, September 1 2020, from Tyndale House Publishers. Designed by Libby Dykstra. North Carolina, 1793 Ian Cameron, a Boston cabinetmaker turned frontier trapper, has come to Mountain Laurel hoping to remake...
by LoriBenton | Feb 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Crater Lake National Park is Oregon’s only National Park. I first set eyes on this spectacular vista in 1991. I’ve lived near enough to it since 1993 to visit it often. Since I took up landscape photography a few years ago I’ve found my way to this...
by LoriBenton | Feb 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
I got the first niggles of inspiration for the story that would become Mountain Laurel, my upcoming September release, sometime toward the end of the 1990s. Though I’d opened a file and jotted some notes (first thing I always do when when I suspect the kernel of...
by LoriBenton | Dec 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
Thanks so much for sharing your favorite fictional settings in this week’s book drawing. It’s always fun to learn what appeals to other readers. Some of you mentioned books I need to check out, and others reminded me of past loves. Now for the 10 winners...
by LoriBenton | Dec 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
Some fictional settings intrigue. Others delight. Some are so compelling they become a part of your inner landscape. The stuff of daydreams. Maybe it’s the characters that make the setting so appealing. It could be a culture (real or imagined) or a different...
