Feature on Cynsations!

Last week, Gone Fishing and I were featured by Cynthia Leitich Smith on her blog, Cynsations!

Here is an excerpt:

How did you approach the research process for your story? What resources did you turn to? What roadblocks did you run into? How did you overcome them? What was your greatest coup, and how did it inform your manuscript?

 There is a nonfiction section in Gone Fishing called “The Poet’s Tackle Box,” which includes information about the poetic forms that I used when I wrote the poems for the book.

To develop that end matter section, I read a pyramid of poetry and reference books. I wanted to make sure that the poems and the details about them were accurate. It was challenging because each book was structured a little differently and included or excluded some forms.

Finally, in the front of one of my rhyming dictionaries, I found a section that outlined rhyme, rhythm, and stanza patterns. That information was my key.

To read the full interview, click: Tamera's interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith

Thank you, Cynthia! 

05.20.2013