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 Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk from St. Martin’s Press. + The Margaret Fishback Papers Back in May of 2007, thanks to a tip from my best-friend-from-high-school Angela…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Meredith Alling writes about Sing The Song from Future Tense Books. + A big part of writing for me is note-taking. Most of the time a “note” is just a few…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Grant Maierhofer writes about Flamingos from Itna Press. + The writing and unwriting of the manuscript that became Flamingos started with disparate elements and fragments, all guided by a thematic impulse…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Kelcey Parker Ervick writes about The Bitter Life of Božena Němcová from Rose Metal Press. + It’s March 2003, flights to Berlin are less than $400. Why not fly to Berlin…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, James Tadd Adcox writes about Repetition from Cobalt Press. + I wrote the first draft of Repetition over a three-day period, from August 29th to September 1st, 2014. My goal, originally, was to write 30,000 words over these…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Tobias Carroll writes about Reel from Rare Bird Books. + How Zines Got Me to Seattle As with plenty of things in my life, the road to my novel Reel started…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Sam Allingham writes about The Great American Songbook from A Strange Object. + Research is fun, and also fun to ignore. When I was working on my collection The Great American…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Jeff P. Jones writes about Love Give Us One Death: Bonnie and Clyde in the Last Days from Texas Review Press. + The Word Trap and the Novel This novel was…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Leland Cheuk writes about Letters From Dinosaurs from Thought Catalog. + It was the end of 2008 when I started writing short stories in earnest. The Great Recession had just begun,…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Donna Miscolta writes about Hola and Goodbye from Carolina Wren Press. + After my grandmother died, there was no one to make the tamales. My mother and aunts no longer had…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, MB Caschetta writes about Pretend I’m Your Friend from Engine Books. + The forgiving nature of the short story I wrote the stories in the linked collection Pretend I’m Your Friend…