How to Travel for Research (even before you sell the book)--Episode 298 with Sarah Stewart Taylor

&#8220;Just a little jaunt to Ireland to research my next book.&#8221; If that sounds like a dream to you, we asked Sarah Stewart Taylor&#8212;author of <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781250256430">The Mountains Wild</a>, <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/a-distant-grave-a-mystery/9781250256447">A Distant Grave</a> and the forthcoming <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250826657">The Drowning Sea</a>, all set in Ireland and the somewhat-less-glamorous Long Island&#8212;to explain how she made that dream a reality, even before she sold the first of her books. We talk about why research travel matters, when and why Sarah chooses to use real neighborhoods or locations in her fiction, how she spends her time (hint&#8212;you have to suck it up and be a tourist) and why it&#8217;s so important to &#8220;get extra&#8221;. <br/><br/>#AmReading<br/><br/>Sarah: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781594634499">Matrix</a> by Lauren Groff<br/><br/>Ilaria Tuti - <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781641291255">Flowers Over the Inferno</a>, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781641291217">The Sleeping Nymph</a><br/><br/>Jess: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781250244147">Once there Were Wolves</a> by Charlotte McConaghy<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781101885680">Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone</a> by Diana Gabaldon<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781984818416">Wish You Were Here</a> by Jodi Picoult<br/><br/>KJ: Louise Erdrich, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780062671127">The Sentence</a><br/><br/>Also mentioned: narrator <a href="https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/narrators/davina-porter/">Davina Porter</a><br/><br/>Class with KJ! I&#8217;m teaching a 4 week long online class I call &#8220;Cry Harder: Taking the Reader on an Emotional Roller Coaster&#8221; through the Flying Books School of Reading and Writing on Thursday nights from January 20th through February 10th.&#160; Emotional journeys are at the core of every story, whether it&#8217;s Die Hard or