[sevenbak]

For on site research among special collections, that’s actually pretty normal, according to other authors I know who travel for similar purposes.

[AnAmericanMother]

Well, I'm not a novelist, but I've done plenty of research in special collections (my undergraduate degree was in history, and my thesis involved original documents scattered here and there.)

I spent a lot longer than two weeks in the Georgia and Alabama State Archives, just for starters. And I spent as much as a week in three or four local courthouses in the record rooms.

And I wasn't getting paid. But I WAS trying to get it right, which is more than I can say for Brown.