Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Leland Cheuk writes about No Good Very Bad Asian from C&R Press. + One of the funnest parts of writing my novel about a fictive famed standup comic was the creation…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, John Minichillo writes about First Woman On Mars from Spaceboy Books. + I was born the year before we landed on the moon and those missions had an undeniable impact on…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Julie Zuckerman writes about The Book Of Jeremiah from Press 53. + I recently started a new day job at a software company. I’ve never worked for the government or for…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Claire Hopple writes about Tired People Seeing America from Dostoevsky Wannabe. + Recipe for Tired People Seeing America by Claire Hopple (V) (GF) Ingredients 1-5 books by Amelia Gray, Scott McClanahan,…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Mathea Morais writes about There You Are from Amberjack Publishing. + Oddly, when I started to write There You Are — which was originally titled Rahsaan’s Records until the publisher decided…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Valerie Nieman writes about To The Bones from West Virginia University Press. + Each fall, a truck from the Harkness Feed Mill chuted anthracite coal into our cellar to warm the…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Mark Barr writes about Watershed from Hub City Press. + In August 2002, I telephoned the Mansfield Dam in Austin, Texas, and asked if I could get a tour of the structure. 9-11 had happened…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Anita Felicelli writes about Chimerica from WTAW Press. + When I was in elementary school, my father took a theater class in which they learned about different methods of acting, and…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Zach Powers writes about First Cosmic Velocity from G.P. Putnam’s Sons. + The Search for Language: How research informs the craft of writing I completed my initial research for First Cosmic…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Melissa Duclos writes about Besotted from 7.13 Books. + Sometimes the Research Comes Second When I lived in Shanghai for six months in 2004, I didn’t know I’d set a novel…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Katy Yocom writes about Three Ways to Disappear from Ashland Creek Press. + Fall in love with a litter of tiger cubs born at your city’s zoo. Develop an obsession. Follow…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Willem Myra writes about Kennel_Born from Thirty West. + And when you eventually let it slip that you authored something that someone else for whatever screwy reasons agreed to publish, you…