Fresh Fiction Blog | Annie Seaton | Research is my Passion

Ever since I can remember, I would pick up anything that had words on it and
read. Whether it was the newspaper, a flyer, an advertisement, a billboard, a
book or a magazine...I would read it. A thirst for knowledge, a desire to know
what was happening in the world and the opportunity to experience other worlds,
lives, and times was available to me through the written word.

Move forward to the second decade of the twenty-first century and the internet
is at my fingertips. Oh, what a delight for an author. To be able to research
exotic places far away, to be able to verify facts and dates and to look at
images of exotic settings.

Stuck for a character's name? Log on and research names. Stuck for a physical
description? Log on and look at the millions of images available to you.

Is this love of research a trait common to all writers? I'm not sure...

My love of reading and research melded into a highly satisfying career when I
left school and studied to be a librarian. During my twenty-year career with
books and the written word... I worked in a variety of library settings.

A university library working with tertiary students and lecturers from the
classics to geology and architecture; a medical library working with medical
students and researchers involved in the latest research; a public library...
where I would help primary school students with their homework and source
romances and westerns for elderly folk who would come in and seek my
recommendations. And finally in a secondary school library where I began my
career as a teacher and moved out of the library field.

My training and experience as a librarian has been a marvellous asset as I have
turned to my lifelong dream of writing. The ability to carry out effective
searches on the internet and separate the wheat from the chaff on the myriad of
sites out there, as well as being able to recognise fraudulent sites was honed
in my early years as a research librarian. Now that love of research and the
amazing search engines and images on the internet all contribute to my creation
of exotic settings and alternative worlds...of course, it also helps to have a
very vivid imagination to kick it all off!

Come on over and read some of my bizarre creations—WINTER OF THE PASSION FLOWER has some unusual machinery in an alternative setting. And my exotic settings—HOLIDAY AFFAIR has some gorgeous tropical settings. And mythology combined with witchcraft and country and western music in BLIND LUST. And currently being researched and written...a most exciting story about ley lines, time slips and rock music.

All verified through painstaking and most enjoyable research!

I love research and I love being an author and sharing my stories with my readers!

WINTER OF THE PASSION FLOWER

HOLIDAY AFFAIR

BLIND LUST

Comments

When an Author takes so much time to get background for their books, and has the type of personality that you do, which immediately draws a person in, anyone would be off of their rocker not to pick up one of your books and read them!! I have put you on my TBR list, and you are going to make some interesting reading for me during the upcoming Winter!! I'll have to hide the covers from my 2 kittens, because they're a little on the racy side, though!! lol Who needs a hot beverage to drink with covers like that?? I'm seriously looking forward to reading your books, though, as well as your future book.
(Peggy Roberson 1:42pm November 13, 2012)

Hi Peggy... Thank you for your lovely words. I hope you enjoy
my stories. I am really enjoying researching Magic in
Music...set at Glastonbury in the 1970s. Annie
(Annie Seaton 5:18pm November 13, 2012)

I'm crazy for researching too Annie! :)

Sometimes I have to deny myself research in order to get my
wordcount in though! LOL

Great blog! Congratulations on the releases...

Lisa :)
(Lisa Kessler 5:47pm November 13, 2012)

Hi Annie - Great post. I get my best plot ideas when I'm
researching...
(Lynn Cahoon 7:41pm November 13, 2012)

I love waking up and exploring, seeing what is out there, whereever a thought might take me. I remember encyclopedias and opening them and reading them, now it's a few hours on the computer.
(Carla Carlson 9:39am November 14, 2012)

Librarian, a lady after our own hearts!
We all are book lovers on this site.
Research is fascinating and the great part is that as you write and research, the material you read suggests detail for the writing, above and beyond what you were hoping to find.
Good luck with your books, I have not read any yet but they are great covers.
(Clare O'Beara 2:14pm November 14, 2012)

What a wonderful career you have as a librarian and now a writer with so much resource (plus you know where all the subjects are located in the library) to use. Congrats on your book and books to come.
(Kai Wong 9:16pm November 14, 2012)

I also love doing research Annie. Holiday Affair is on my reading list and I can't
wait to dive into it. Love the cover.
(Jennifer St George 1:19am November 15, 2012)

Thank you for all the lovely comments. I hope you enjoy
reading my books. Now I will put my head back down to my
research!
(Annie Seaton 5:47am November 16, 2012)

I think the stories which have historical bearing and the research to back them fall into my basket when shopping. Research makes the setting and objects within, the customs, traditions, clothing, transportation and speech come to life.
(Alyson Widen 5:41pm November 18, 2012)

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