Category: Research Notes
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Amphibian
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…
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Panic Years
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…
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Across The Great Lake
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…
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Trash Mountain
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…
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Hungry People
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…
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Now We Can See The Moon
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…
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The Listening Room
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…
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When We Disappear
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…
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The Proverb Zoo
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Armel Dagorn writes about The Proverb Zoo from The Penny Dreadful. + I have a shelf reserved for short story collections, above the (much bigger) one for toddler’s toys and the…
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This Darkness Got to Give
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Dave Housley writes about This Darkness Got To Give from Pandamoon Publishing. + My advice for aspiring novelists is specific and hard-earned: if you are writing a book set on real…
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How To Be Safe
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Tom McAllister writes about How To Be Safe from Liveright Publishing. + I started compiling notes on How to Be Safe in the days after the Sandy Hook school shooting. Like…
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Whiskey & Ribbons
Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Leesa Cross-Smith writes about Whiskey & Ribbons from Hub City Press. + Write a short story that won’t let you go. Be embarrassed to submit it to a fancy contest but submit it anyway and be…