Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Daniel Davis Wood writes about Blood and Bone from Seizure. + “The ugly fact is books are made out of books,” Cormac McCarthy once said. “The novel depends for its life…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Bronwyn Mauldin writes about Love Songs Of The Revolution from CCCLaP Publishing. + Small town, brown dog While researching my novel, Love Songs of the Revolution, I took a few hours…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Rebecca Lawton writes about Steelies and Other Endangered Species from Little Curlew Press. + Rebecca Lawton, The Playbunny Interview Q: Ms. Lawton, it’s good to have you with us. Your new…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Christy Crutchfield writes about How To Catch A Coyote from Publishing Genius Press. + 2005 The coyotes were getting brave. My friend was now living in the farther suburbs of Atlanta…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Joshua Kornreich writes about Knotty, Knotty, Knotty from Black Mountain Press. + It started with his name: Shawn. Only, for so long a time, I had been seeing his name in…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Sharona Muir writes about Invisible Beasts from Bellevue Literary Press . + My new novel, Invisible Beasts, narrated by a naturalist who sees invisible creatures, began as a game I played…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Letitia Trent writes about Echo Lake from Dark House Press. + The Missing: Echo Lake began after a conversation with my in-laws about mysteriously missing people and unsolved murders in the…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Gary Amdahl writes about Across My Big Brass Bed from Artistically Declined Press. + The research for Across My Big Brass Bed took place more or less without the author knowing…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Celeste Ng writes about Everything I Never Told You from The Penguin Press. + People have asked me how much of Everything I Never Told You is made up and how…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Jonathan Gibbs writes about Randall from Galley Beggar Press. + Research was always going to be a tricky proposition for Randall, my novel about the Young British Artists, the art movement…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their research for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Ann Gelder writes about Bigfoot and the Baby from Bona Fide Books. + I’m going to say that I conducted the bulk of the research for Bigfoot and the Baby between the ages of nine and ten. According…