Research

One of the fun things about writing novels is that they often require strange research.  I remember one day while working on Touch Blue, I stood on a hill, pitching different types of pinecones to find which variety of pinecone Libby could throw at Tess that could travel far enough to hit her.



For this new book, I needed to skip stones. I grew up on a lake, and I used to be really good at it.  But I haven't done it in a long time.  So at 6 am this morning I was down by the lake by myself, camera in one hand, a flat stone in the other. 



Researching.