Over the last three Mondays we've had 'At the writing desk' posts with Adèle Geras, Deborah Lawrenson and Jane Rusbridge. I have another novelist as my special guest today, but this one is talking about working with needle and thread rather than pen and paper.
I am thrilled to welcome Tracy Chevalier to Cornflower, and to direct all the readers of this site over to the other blog to see Tracy's post on the hands-on research she does for her books, and specifically her experience learning patchwork and quilting as part of the background for her new novel The Last Runaway
Before you go, though, do read this piece by Tracy on the importance of editing and why - for her - less is most definitely more, (and getting back to the writing desk for a moment, if you watch the video to which I've linked at the bottom of the quilting post, you'll see that a notebook and pen are Tracy's tools of first resort).
