Many genres within the fiction umbrella require an amazing amount of research. When I gravitated away from writing travel and human interest articles and began focusing on adventure fiction, I was surprised to find myself doing as much or more research than I did for my articles. Fiction is still a product of the author’s imagination, but in certain sub-genres it is essential to ground a story’s places, people, and actions in reality or risk losing any shred of believability.
For my latest novel,
Shrouded In Secrets, I read through mountains of material, much of which I didn’t understand not being a scientist, archeologist, or super-spy, but the information helped point me in the right direction. I encountered...READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE
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