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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Mary Kuryla writes about Freak Weather, winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction from University of Massachusetts Press. + My collection Freak Weather Stories won the 2016 Grace Paley Prize and was published by Massachusetts…