We have author Joanne Austen Brown this week talking about "Research for Writing" She also has a new book out this month, The War Rings. 

Ideas-- I have plenty of them. But I will set each a side and research what I want to do. The place, the characters. The time in history.

It sends me off to the library and the internet. I love to go to the Melbourne sate Library. I have a son who lives in Melbourne, so it is a chance to see him.

I will and do spend months taking notes or writing specific scenes.

I will often go for a walk to think through what I have read to allow it to sink into my story.

 

I want the facts around the places the people and the history to be right. Even the language. If I sound formal in my writing it is because they spoke more formally than we do. It just seems the right thing to do. I also think it puts you into the place that I write about.

About the Author

Joanne writes Historical Romance, Murder Mysteries and Time

Travel Romances. She has a murder mystery series

called the Always series

and a time travel series called Come with Me.

First published in 2020 she has become a very popular writer

both in Australia and the US.

She loves to write. She has seven novels, three novellas,

and a short story under her belt now.

She is happily married with two grown-up sons.

And with four granddaughters and two kitty cats there is never a dull

moment in her home.

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Joanne has a new book out now...
The War Rings

Could Marta revisit the tragedy befallen her family? Because telling them meant she would be reliving it all over again.

Marta has brought up the three children in Britain, but now she must tell them what happened to their parents. Can she do it?  Alida and Dieter's love story is so beautiful despite what was happening in Germany. But Marta also lost her parents and other sister, leaving her the sole survivor in her family. They were all victims of the deadly Nazis as were thousands of people all over Europe.

Were they ready for the truth?

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Watch this video for Nas Dean's review of "The War Rings".