I love the research bits. I love the research bits more than I love the writing bits, most of the time. Of course, the problem with the research bits is that then you know so much. For example, I know more than you could ever imagine about swimming pool filtration in the 19th Century. I learned all about it when I wrote a hero who owned a private swimming pool. But the story is the most important thing, of course, so when I wrote the big scene about the swimming pool, and it involved all sorts of naughtiness, charcoal and sand filters did not seem exactly appropriate. So I took all that stuff out. And I still get mail from readers who are concerned that my hero & heroine were doing it in a cesspool of waterborne illness. (They weren’t.)
Sarah MacLean