My mother spent 30 years in family research, and some of the information she passed on to me has inspired me to flush out the stories to fill books. My first book about the history of Mammoth Cave took six years and swore I did not want to do more reseach. However, with my second book, Amanda, I quickly learned that research was a very important part os writing any novel, historical or otherwise. My third book, The Story of Peter Looney, resulted from an obscure news article published in 1757 about an ancestor who had spent a year living with the Indians after being captured in Southwe more...
