Four guidelines for effective use of research in your novel

What this post is and is not

Four guidelines for effective use of research in your novel is not concerned with how to go about doing your research. There’s lots of help out there about that. What this post is about is how that research gets translated into our novels to create feasible, authentic worlds and characters in which readers become immersed – without feeling they are being taught a history lesson (in the case of historical fiction) or force fed an abundance of ‘what it was like back...