How to Research Your Book With Vikki Carter, The Author’s Librarian
How do you research a book in the most appropriate way? How can you keep track of your sources and attribute them correctly, as well as avoiding inadvertent plagiarism? How can you get your book/s into libraries? Vikki Carter talks about all these questions and more. In the intro, Has Amazon Changed Fiction? [New Republic]; The Bigger the Publisher, The Blander the Books [The Atlantic]; A basic income pilot scheme for artists [Irish Times]; Struggles we face as authors [6 Figure Authors]; My 5-day solo walk along the St Cuthbert's Way. This episode is sponsored by Publisher Rocket, which will help you get your book in front of more Amazon readers so you can spend less time marketing and more time writing. I use Publisher Rocket for researching book titles, categories, and keywords — for new books and for updating my backlist. Check it out at www.PublisherRocket.com Vikki Carter is the author of Research Like a Librarian: Research Help and Tips for Writers for Researching in the Digital Age. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Notes * Overcoming dyslexia and learning to love books* Research as a discipline* Choosing where to focus research* Different ways to research your book* How do we know when a source is good enough?* How to avoid accidental plagiarism* How to cite sources* How to get your books into libraries — this article will also help. You can find Vikki Carter at TheAuthorsLibrarian.com and on Twitter @theauthorslib Transcript of Interview with Vikki Carter Joanna: Vikki Carter is the author of Research Like a Librarian: Research Help and Tips for Writers for Researching in the Digital Age. Welcome, Vikki. Vikki: Hi there, Joanna. Hi, everyone. Joanna: I'm excited to talk to you today about this because I think it's so important. Before we get into it, tell us a bit more about your background because I know you struggled a bit in your early experiences with books. Vikki: Oh, I did. And it's such an interesting part of my story and I just actua...