Guest Post from Tim Baker
Happened to chance on Tim Baker’s neat blog post today…and was thinking how many years it took me to research my first novel on tantra in ancient India. Of course I used the often controversial material I found to create my own unique saga of adventure and enlightenment….but its amazing how much time and effort can go into writing a single authentic paragraph…now read what Tim has to say…
Originally posted on A Lover of Books:
���Eyewitness Blues��� is Tim Baker���s latest novel.�� He has written a guest post for my blog about research and how important it is.
Research
There���s nothing worse than spotting inaccuracies in a novel.
Suspension of disbelief aside, even fiction should be as factually accurate as possible���I mean if your character is being chased by a pack of time-traveling zombies riding flying monkeys, and he/she shoots ten of them dead with a Colt single-action revolver, I���m afraid I���d have to call that bullshit.
A simple Google inquiry will tell you that particular weapon only holds six rounds.
Research.
Every novelist should do his/her research because, as Genghis Khan said, ���You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.���
Actually, that quote belongs to Abraham Lincoln, but I���
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