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…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Christina Neuwirth writes about Amphibian from Speculative Books. + My debut novella Amphibian is about an office that is slowly being filled with water as part of a managerial effort 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, Daniel Difranco writes about Panic Years from Tailwinds Press. + Panic Years is about a musician in his late 20s, who in a last effort to realize his dreams joins a…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Lee Zacharias writes about Across The Great Lake from University of Wisconsin Press. + Writing Out of Season The late George Garrett once observed that most American novels written in 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, Bradley Bazzle writes about Trash Mountain from Red Hen Press. + At the end of the first reading I did from Trash Mountain, at Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia, a young…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Tasha Coryell writes about Hungry People from Split Lip Press. + When I was an undergraduate at Knox College, I had a job working in the Public Relations office reading newspapers…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Berit Ellingsen writes about Now We Can See The Moon from Snuggly Books. + Now We Can See The Moon (Snuggly Books 2018) is a novel about a drowned city 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, Kathleen Rooney writes about The Listening Room: A Novel of Georgette & Loulou Magritte from Spork Press. + The Making of The Listening Room The pieces in my new book, 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, Lise Haines writes about When We Disappear from Unbridled Books. + When We Disappear, my fourth novel, comes out June 5th, 2018. As you can see, the cover art depicts a…