Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Valerie Nieman writes about In The Lonely Backwater, published by Fitzroy Books. + The Naturalist: Linnaeus and In the Lonely Backwater Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Jonathan Howland writes about Native Air, published by Green Writers Press. + I’m drawn to novels that spiral around a single, cataclysmic event, typically a reverberant loss or grief. In life…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Jackson Bliss writes about Amnesia of June Bugs, published by 7.13 Books. + For Ten Years, This Novel was a Chunk of Starlight that I Buried In the Thick Earth &…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Lauren Stanfill writes about Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary, published by Lanternfish Press. + Fifteen years ago, while in the early stages of drafting a novel, I came upon 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, Barrett Bowlin writes about Ghosts Caught on Film, winner of the Bridge Eight Press fiction prize. + Liner Notes for Ghosts Caught on Film “New Careers in Science” (26’12”) — Written…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Ursula Villarreal-Moura writes about Math for the Self-Crippling, selected by Zinzi Clemmons as the Gold Line Press fiction contest winner. + Houses What’s more hypnotic than knowing every detail of 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, Christopher Linforth writes about The Distortions, published by Orison Books. + I had moved to the US after a life in the UK and some periods residing in the former Yugoslavia.…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Andrew Key writes about Ross Hall, published by Grand Iota. + I can pinpoint the moment the idea for Ross Hall arrived, more or less fully formed, in my skull. It…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Caleb Tankersley writes about Sin Eaters, winner of the 2021 Permafrost Prize in fiction and published by University of Alaska Press. + I want to describe the process of developing 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, Devon Capizzi writes about My Share of the Body from Split/Lip Press. + Some People Get Hit by Trucks and Die When my dad was killed in a car accident in…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Jennifer Fliss writes about The Predatory Animal Ball from Okay Donkey. The collection includes “Degrees”, previously published by Necessary Fiction. + I am not a historical fiction writer and I don’t…

Our Research Notes series invites authors to describe their process for a recent book, with “research” defined as broadly as they like. This week, Cameron MacKenzie writes about River Weather from Alternating Current. + The Cheap Laugh Edward P. Jones once explained his relationship to his characters by saying that he was the god of…