Graham Springs in the first half of the 1800s was considered the “Saratoga of the west.” When I was writing my story, The Pursuite of Elena Bradford, set at Graham Springs, I kept wanting to say the Saratoga of the South. But at the time Kentucky was a western state in the USA. California didn’t become a state until 1850, …
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T Writing a book set in the past can open up some doors to interesting research. A writer can suddenly find themselves needing more information about things she never even considered needing to know when that first idea for story came to mind. But then you start digging a little deeper into the story’s history. You think more about what …