Katie Fforde is a true country girl at heart, living in the Cotswold countryside with her family. And she’s a huge bestseller, as well as being President of the Romantic Novelists’ Association.
Katie believes falling in love is the best thing in the world, and she wants all her characters to experience it, and her readers to share their stories.
We readers love those stories for their warm-hearted characters, their gentle comedy and their guaranteed happy endings.
Katie sets her stories in the here and now. So she doesn’t need to do research, right?
Wrong. Katie Fforde does research too, some of it the hard way. Ray Mears survival training, anyone?
Read on for Katie Fforde’s very individual take on doing research.
Katie Fforde does Research? Yes, really
Many years ago a friend who wrote historical fiction heard me mention doing some research. She said, “But you write contemporary, you don’t need to do research.”
How wrong she was!