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…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Virginia Pye writes about Shelf Life of Happiness from Press 53. + Stealing Stories Where do our stories come from? As my collection, Shelf Life of Happiness, finds its way into…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Jenn Stroud Rossmann writes about The Place You’re Supposed to Laugh from 7.13 Books. + When I was in grad school at Berkeley near the end of the last century, one…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Vanessa Blakeslee writes about Perfect Conditions from Curbside Splendor. + Just how did I come to write speculative fiction? “The aliens were here again last night,” the woman beside me at…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Micah Perks writes about True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape from Outpost 19. + Ten Things I Learned While Writing My Linked Short Story Collection, True Love and Other…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Kate Gehan writes about The Girl & The Fox Pirate from Mojave River Press. + Fall in love, fall out of love, over and over. Make it a life project to…

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 Love Songs for a Lost Continent from Stillhouse Press. + Identity and Place in Love Songs for a Lost Continent You could say that the research for my short story collection Love Songs 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, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum writes about What We Do with the Wreckage, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction from University of Georgia Press. + Mama, my daughter asks me…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Darrin Doyle writes about _Scoundrels Among Us from Tortoise Books. + Q: Is the inside of my brain the journey or the destination? A: Both. Q: Interesting, wonderful. Then each step…