Instructor: Cynthia Owens
Start Date: Monday, May 5, 2025
End Date: Friday, May 30, 2025
Type: Group.io
Duration: 4 Weeks
USD Fee: FF&P Member – $20; Non-Member – $25

Research. Some of us love it, some of us hate it, but we all have to do at least some research for our stories, whether it’s historical events, local hangouts, or wars.

In Digging Deep: Researching Your Novel, I’ll introduce you to various research methods, as well as different options for organizing your research. Topics covered will include using written sources, libraries and archives, and the media to help in your research.
Does your character have a job that you need to research? I’ll show you how to interview someone who does that particular job. And if you’re traveling for your research, I’ll tell you how to prepare yourself to find just the information you need. We’ll also look at Author’s Notes, as well as how to pull all your research together. Also included in the class is The Inverted Triangle, a Writing Right Academy exclusive that shows you how to narrow the focus of your research.
Included in the class is a workbook with resources, worksheets, checklists, and more.

About the Instructor:

I believe I was destined to be interested in history. One of my distant ancestors, Thomas Aubert, reportedly sailed up the St. Lawrence River to discover Canada some 26 years before Jacques Cartier’s 1534 voyage. Another relative was a 17thCentury “King’s Girl,” one of a group of young unmarried girls sent to New France (now the province of Quebec) as brides for the habitants (settlers) there.

My passion for reading made me long to write books like the ones I enjoyed, and I tried penning sequels to my favorite Nancy Drew mysteries. Later, fancying myself a female version of Andrew Lloyd Weber, I drafted a musical set in Paris during WWII.

A former journalist and lifelong Celtophile, I enjoyed a previous career as a reporter/editor for a small chain of community newspapers before returning to my first love, romantic fiction. My stories usually include an Irish setting, hero or heroine, and sometimes all three.

I’m the author of The Claddagh Series, historical romances set in Ireland and beyond, and The Wild Geese Series, in which five Irish heroes return from the American Civil War to find love and adventure.

I’m a member of the Romance Writers of America, Hearts Through History Romance Writers, and the Quebec Writers Federation. A lifelong resident of Montreal, Canada, I still live there with my own Celtic hero. I have two adult children.

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