by LoriBenton | Jul 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dear Readers, It’s time for a sneak peek of my upcoming release, Mountain Laurel. Are you ready for this? Then visit the link below (with many thanks to Tyndale House Publishers for providing the pdf file!): Mountain Laurel sneak peek Available for...
by LoriBenton | Jun 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Are back covers of books worth getting excited about? If you are the author, and it took you four years to write the book, another two to edit it, and ten more for it to find a publishing home, I’d say the answer is YES. I just saw it for the first time this...
by LoriBenton | Mar 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
So here we all are in the midst of sheltering at home, social distancing from each other, and for some full on quarantine. Some cities, states, provinces and countries are locked down. Across the planet so much of our lives have come to a standstill while we wait out...
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...