Researching and the Mash up Parody

For today's stop on the blog tour for Ebenezer Scrooge: Ghost Hunter, I wrote an article for Reading Shy with Aly. Aly suggested the prompt: what kind of research was required to write your book? and my first thought was: No Research! But that wasn't quite true.



I took a research trip.
I read and re-read the source material.
I watched a number of movie versions of A Christmas Carol.
I researched various myths and folktales to find the right supernatural creatures to populate my story with.
I did countless google searches on "public domain" and copyright laws.

I didn't realize that it was research at the time because I was having so much fun doing it! (Except for the last one. Copyright laws and public domain isn't fun at all.) There are all sorts of ways to research your book. If you enjoy your topic and are enthusiasitc about the material, it doesn't seem like work at all!

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