Quintus Hopper of Nevada: the joys of research
The word count of my last novel was going to be larger than that of Moby-Dick, imagine that. I decided to do things differently - and ended up with two books instead.
I've worked on this last book for about three years. As it is a historical novel and my protagonist meets more than a few real-life people (such as Mark Twain, Sarah Winnemucca, Wovoka and Helen J. Stewart), I thoroughly enjoyed spending quite a bit of my life in the depths of history, researching this and that from 1848 until well into the 20th century…
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