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…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Kim Hooper writes about Tiny from Turner Publishing. + I first heard about tiny houses in 2014, when I read a New York Times article about Dee Willams and her 84-square-foot…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Jessica Handler writes about The Magnetic Girl from Hub City Press. + Mapping the Past In order to travel back in time, a writer needs a map. Not a GPS, redirecting…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Fernando Sdrigotti writes about Shitstorm from Open Pen. + Most of my fiction comes into being first as a draft and then as an idea. In less hyperbolic terms, what I…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Sarah Stone writes about Hungry Ghost Theater from WTAW Press. + My new novel, Hungry Ghost Theater, began when I was avoiding a novel I kept writing and rewriting. That other…