Every week I publish a post with a single Ask Me Anything question. I’ll start in the beginning with questions found on a website to ask authors, but leave comments with your own questions and I’ll get to them.
What kind of research do you do, and how long do you spend researching before beginning a book?
This is going to sound really bad but I don’t research before I start a book. Or if I do, it’s pretty minimal.
I will do more research before I start a series, mostly in finding the best location, maybe scouting the area, looking for little things to put in as easter eggs, that kind of thing but that’s usually about all I research before I start a project.
During however, that’s a whole different story.
During the story, if something happens I don’t know enough on, I stop and research then and there. There have been episodes of impromptu research where I end up lost down a rabbit hole for a whole day, but those are really rare these days. I can usually stop when I find the answer to whatever specific question, but that took a lot of catching myself chasing research kittens and redirecting myself.