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Tag: Research
Why We Read and Write Nonfiction, a guest post by Kathie MacIsaac and Rebecca E. F. Barone
The authors talk about their shared love of nonfiction and their new books.
The Perfect Pairing: Historical Fiction & Nonfiction for Tweens, a guest post by Susan J. Austin
Historical fiction helps [kids] see that the past is closer to the present than they ever imagined, that the lives of people who lived long ago are not so different from their own.
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!
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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.
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.
Raiding the Junk Drawer, a guest post by Hope Larson
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.
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Writing Novels from a Librarian’s Perspective, a guest post by Bryce Moore
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
Who would have thought a “keep it current” and a never “way back in time” writer would be seduced by the lure of history?
Past as Present, Present as Past, a guest post by J. Anderson Coats
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
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.
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