On Saturday, March 26, 2011, I spoke to a local writers group about the biography I am writing of early artist/scientist Maria Sybilla Merian. I talked about the various types of research I have done for the book, including travel to Germany and visits to various museums for information. Then I talked about my experience with crowd funding and two of those websites, explaining what crowd funding is and how it is done, differences I found on two of those site, and what all needs to be done before you push that “publish” button. And lastly, I spoke about why I need to travel to Suriname, South America, for that last bit of on-site research in order to complete the book.
I enjoyed visiting with all the people who came up to talk with me afterwards, too.
Nancy, you did a great job. I enjoyed it. You had everyone’s attention.
Amazing, how few writers understand how important on-the-spot research is. Your trip to Germany covers that pretty well (the need for it).
You somehow got on my Twitter thread. This is in response to this.
Cheers!
–Jack Payne