Using Research to Develop Your Novel

Searching for Clues in Randomness

I’ve been on a Tim Powers kick lately. I find his body of work fascinating, from The Anubis Gates to On Stranger Tides. He gives off the impression of a writer who “gets it,” (keeping what “it” is close to the vest for now). His Tarot gambling novel Last Call will be the second book featured on my Ghost in the Tome book club podcast series, so I started…