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Tag: Research

May 10, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

It’s a Small World! A guest post by Betty Culley

In THE NATURAL GENIUS OF ANTS, Harvard Corson has a huge task in front of him and only a short summer to accomplish it—trying to get his doctor father to forgive himself for a very big mistake that cost a baby her life. Not only that, but Harvard also needs to keep an ant colony alive!

March 30, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Helping Turtles: Writing as Conservation Work, a guest post by Diana Renn

I wanted to raise these turtles’ visibility by telling a story about them. Through the writing process, and even the marketing and publicity process, the book has become a natural extension of the conservation work I began with my son.

March 22, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Worlds Apart: A. J. Sass on Researching the Barcelona Setting for Ellen Outside the Lines

Ellen Outside the Lines challenged me in the research it initially required to get a handle on my setting and the cultural heritage of the characters who called Barcelona home.

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Raiding the Junk Drawer, a guest post by Hope Larson

October 15, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor

SALT MAGIC began when I ripped up some plywood flooring in my old house and found a 1927 newspaper article underneath. A few years later I stumbled onto the newspaper article in my files, did a little research, and became totally freaking obsessed.

Down the Rabbit Hole: Writing Novels from a Librarian’s Perspective, a guest post by Bryce Moore

July 12, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor

While librarianship has made me more susceptible to getting distracted by rabbit holes, it’s also made it much easier for me to come out of those holes with a rabbit in hand.

Historical Fiction in the Making, a guest post by Rita Williams-Garcia

May 20, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor

Who would have thought a “keep it current” and a never “way back in time” writer would be seduced by the lure of history?

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Past as Present, Present as Past, a guest post by J. Anderson Coats

May 19, 2020 by Amanda MacGregor

Becoming anything is hard. Rebuilding when the pieces are shattered so small is a whole different way of becoming.

Water, water, everywhere, a guest post by London Shah

October 22, 2019 by Amanda MacGregor

Debut author London Shah joins us to talk about the world-building and research that went into designing a functioning submerged world in her forthcoming book, THE LIGHT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD.

Writing Outside Your Own Life (and Not Chickening Out), a guest post by Jacqueline West

October 9, 2018 by Amanda MacGregor

As an author, I make a lot of school visits. And at a lot of school visits, a student will hurry up to me before my talk starts, hand me a lanyard microphone—the kind that links with hearing aids— and disappear again. I’ll wear the microphone as I speak, remembering, every time I bump it […]

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