Comments on: Research. It’s Weird.

By: Jackie Ashenden

Jackie Ashenden — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:53:05 +0000

Ros – that sounds awesome! Must check it out. 🙂

By: ros

ros — Sat, 12 May 2012 22:09:30 +0000

There is a whole family of dugongs in a romance I have coming out in a couple of months from Entangled.

By: Jackie Ashenden

Jackie Ashenden — Thu, 10 May 2012 22:53:03 +0000

Ros – that’s awesome! If you can fit a dugong into your romance, I take my hat off to you!

By: ros

ros — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:15:08 +0000

Reproductive cycle of dugongs.

By: Jackie Ashenden

Jackie Ashenden — Thu, 10 May 2012 04:16:54 +0000

Madeline – It sounds fun! Yeah, me too re the research overseas. I guess we can dream… 🙂

By: Madeline Ash

Madeline Ash — Thu, 10 May 2012 02:29:59 +0000

Oh, I wish! No, just a farm in the hills not far from home. Still, it was fun. I think I could only justify travelling overseas for research if the book’s publication was guaranteed!

By: Jackie Ashenden

Jackie Ashenden — Thu, 10 May 2012 01:27:10 +0000

Julia – actually, sometimes the research is tiresome. Especially when I can’t find the answer I need. I think perhaps I should have less weird and wild in the next book!

Masiey – Lol! Oooooh, suuuure…. Physics FTW!!

Madeline – Oh, that sounds wonderful re the berry picking! Did you get to go to Spain to do it?? That would be my ideal sort of research… 🙂

By: Madeline Ash

Madeline Ash — Thu, 10 May 2012 01:00:35 +0000

Hmm. Nothing that sticks out as mega weird (or hilarious, like Maisey's), but definitely things that I'd never have researched otherwise. Compulsive lying. Wine-making and wine blends. Seasons around the world, and like Julia, when certain plants are in bloom. How to raise a baby (felt a bit silly with this one, but not having any experience, kinda important!).

My favourite research was when my heroine was a grape-picker in Spain, so I visited a berry picking farm and spent hours picking so that I knew what parts of the body would hurt the most after a day's work. Then I got to make blackberry pie and boysenberry jam :)

By: Maisey

Maisey — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:51:35 +0000

Oh geez. My personal fave was (while pregnant) googling paternity testing and how you tested against brothers. And it was for RESEARCH FOR WRITING! (I said to the husband!) I SWEAR!

Have also spent far too long researching types of cupcakes, physics, most recently, and adoption laws.

By: Julia Broadbooks

Julia Broadbooks — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:47:34 +0000

Wow, you both have a pretty fun list! Mine is much more mundane. Maps so I don't get the geography wrong. When the oak trees would be in bloom in a certain area. That kind of thing.

Now I want to have something wild and weird in the next book!