Ask the Author: Laura L. Valenti
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Laura L. Valenti
I get away from the computer, take a walk and sometimes take a break for as long as a few days. Meanwhile, I pray about the 'problem' especially at night before I go to sleep and invariably, I find the answer....and it is much better than anything I could have come up with!
Laura L. Valenti
I've been working on the next in the Bennett Spring "The Heart of the Spring" series, this one set in 1967. I'm also working on the next contemporary novel in my "Between the Star and the Cross" series. "The Promise" is the third one in that series about a small town county sheriff in the Ozarks and the beautiful Salvadoran woman Milagro Palacios, who runs the Christian mission in the town of Serenity.
Laura L. Valenti
My latest novel, "The Heart of the Spring Comes Home" is the third in the series that shares the history of Bennett Spring State Park and is set in 1946, at the end of World War II when people were coming back to the area after the war. One of the oldest area residents had told me years before about the Bennett Spring Church of God being abandoned at the end of the war. Because of the many historical articles I had written in past years, I also knew that in the original agreement when the Bennett family sold the land to the state in 1924, part of that contract established a separate acre for the church which was to return to the state should the church ever disband. Facts like that are all a novelist needs to run with, to create a story with depth and drama that involves her characters in compelling, heart-rending struggles.
Laura L. Valenti
Goodreads asked
How do you get inspired to write?
I was often accused of day dreaming as a kid and now I have honed that into a 'skill' of sorts. My husband often asks 'what are you thinking about?' when we are riding in the car (And with kids and grandkids in Texas plus writing non-fiction stories for a regional farming newspaper, I'm in the car a lot!) and the truth is, my day dreaming these days is usually my mind working overtime on this or that part of the next novel.
How do you get inspired to write?
I was often accused of day dreaming as a kid and now I have honed that into a 'skill' of sorts. My husband often asks 'what are you thinking about?' when we are riding in the car (And with kids and grandkids in Texas plus writing non-fiction stories for a regional farming newspaper, I'm in the car a lot!) and the truth is, my day dreaming these days is usually my mind working overtime on this or that part of the next novel.
Laura L. Valenti
Never give up! Learn to work with editors and others along the way. I've been a non-fiction freelance writer for 30 years here in the Ozarks, selling articles to newspapers and magazines. As a result, I've worked with a couple dozen different editors and I've learned so much from them.
Never give up! Learn to work with editors and others along the way. I've been a non-fiction freelance writer for 30 years here in the Ozarks, selling articles to newspapers and magazines. As a result, I've worked with a couple dozen different editors and I've learned so much from them.
Laura L. Valenti
Goodreads asked
What’s the best thing about being a writer?
All the intriguing people you get to meet along the journey, people you would never have known if it were not for this fascinating, addictive, frustrating compulsion known as writing!
What’s the best thing about being a writer?
All the intriguing people you get to meet along the journey, people you would never have known if it were not for this fascinating, addictive, frustrating compulsion known as writing!
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