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…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Phong Nguyen writes about The Adventures of Joe Harper from Outpost 19. + My new novel The Adventures of Joe Harper concerns Tom Sawyer’s best friend and first mate Joe Harper.…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Art Edwards writes about his story “Waiting for the Question” in the anthology City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales, edited by Gigi Little and available from Forest Avenue Press. +…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Steven Dunn writes about Potted Meat from Tarpaulin Sky. + Potted Meat is two-fold, the first being a symbol of poverty. Secondly, it was always interesting to me how the label…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Laurie Blauner writes about The Solace of Monsters from Leapfrog Press. + I, like my character Mara F, in my new novel The Solace of Monsters am composed of all the…