Research Part 2, Subsection B: Guest Authors Mel Bradshaw and Eileen Schuh

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Research Part 2, Subsection B: Guest Authors Mel Bradshaw and Eileen Schuh

<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="http://booksofmelbradshaw.ca/"&g... style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">http://booksofmelbradshaw.ca/</spa... class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dSXSxp6yZZk..." imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dSXSxp6yZZk..." width="241" /></a></span> <span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Looking for stuff on the Internet is so fast and easy and while, yes, there can be unreliable, irresponsible claims out there, sometimes you're sure you're getting the real goods. Example, I was able to download (for free) a facsimile of A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR THE USE OF CORONERS HOLDING INQUESTS IN ONTARIO, published in 1911.</span></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">But, having the good fortune to live in the location where my 1920s novels are set, I can also go out and supplement Google Images with my own photographs of old buildings. Example, the chapel of Toronto's old Central Prison still stands in the middle of Liberty Village. My snapshots are helping me put this relic into my new book.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">And of course good libraries still have a place. The current criminal code is available in a flash on the Internet. But how about the criminal code for 1927, when sentences still included so many lashes as well as prison time? Found what I was looking for in the stacks of Robarts Library at the University of Toronto.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZfpQRNkgpLA..." imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZfpQRNkgpLA..." width="213" /></a></div><u>From Eileen Schuh, Canadian Author: On Research</u><br /><br /><b>Check out Eileen's adult and YA novels here</b>: <br /><a href="http://www.eileenschuh.com/">... <br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">I wrote my BackTracker novels before researching anything, believing I was channeling my characters' true experiences in the biker gang world of drugs and violence and the dangerous counter-world of law enforcement. When it came time to publish the stories, beta readers and editors alike rather adamantly suggested I first ought to confirm the truth of what my likeable but not-all-that-credible characters were telling me. So...I became a volunteer for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. How's that for dedication to my writing career (ha ha)?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">The most enjoyable aspect of my volunteer work is the training provided. I've attended sessions on the illicit drug trade, gangs, juveniles, forensics, counterfeiting, firearms, accident investigation, preserving a crime scene, drones, the canine unit...and the list goes on.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "ＭＳ明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Aside from hard-core learning, my volunteering has also </span> </span><style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:1; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page WordSection1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} </style><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">helped me put faces and emotions to those in uniform, taught me the lingo and police protocol, and got my heart racing at times!</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">P.S. Even though it turns out my BackTracker characters dictated a pretty accurate description of their exciting lifestyles, I'd not give up my volunteering experiences for anything!</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><u>From Me</u>:</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Imajin Books is holding its summer sizzle sales & contests right now! Dive in - win - read great books for great prices (including all my books). </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><a href="http://www.imajinbooks.com/">... /><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Look for the next research blog soon - plus more guest authors. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div>

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