Last time I talked about how I came to write a historical fiction novel and how I chose a time period. Next, I’ll talk a bit about how I found sources. I’ll break this down by the types of sources I used: 1) Books Since I live in the US and not India, finding sources was a little tough. I started out just doing the not-recommended-by-librarians thing: working backwards. I started by looking at wikipedia articles and looked to see what their sources were. I found a few highly

Here is a picture of a sculpture I saw during my Chicago trip a few months ago that contains all of my initials in one (ASJK). It probably contains lots of other letters, too. I’m afraid I don’t remember who the artist is, but I saw it in Millennium Park. #chicago #sculpture

We arrived late at night last Thursday and walked what seemed half a mile in the O’Hare airport to get to our hotel shuttle. We stayed at the Doubletree in Rosemont, a little “village” near O’Hare. The only thing that I could see there was a giant convention center surrounded by highways, hotels, and large office buildings. The hotel was pretty nice and we got a great deal, but the location was awful and it took me 45 minutes by subway to get into the city. I spent the follow