Goodreads asked Beth Durham:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Beth Durham I love history! There's a myriad of historical fiction world's I'd love to see in person. I suppose if I had to choose one I will always choose Gone With the Wind. I'd want to step into their world on page one - I doubt I would enjoy the war-torn south or the Reconstruction era.

One of the things I love about Gone With the Wind is the pageantry of the planter-class. However, it isn't the life of ease that I would like to experience first hand. I don't really want to see people enslaved and forced to wait on me hand and foot.

Instead, I'd love to really understand the workings of a large plantation. I'd like to get to know the people whose whole life was spent at the mercy of a human master. I can hardly imagine Georgia summers spent in layers of petticoats and I'd like to know the ladies who survived that particular torture.

My books are generally set during the 1850 -1900 period and I've heard the stories of my own family during that era from childhood. Mine were not wealthy ancestors and our home on the Cumberland Plateau supported neither large plantations nor slaves. It was an era of extremely hard work but spiritual strength. Elements of my people exist even in Margaret Mitchell's fictional world and I'd love to walk among them.

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