Research and the Research Librarian

By Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Stacey lives in the past, writing kick-ass bestselling historical books. When she researches a topic, she loses herself in her work.

She knows the Chicago Public Library inside and out. And she prefers to work alone. Until Greg—handsome, compelling, and a research librarian?—offers to help.

Can Greg help Stacey find the information she seeks? Or will they find something else entirely? 

“Rusch is a great storyteller.”

—RT Book Reviews

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Mar 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386379379

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. Under that name, she publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov’s Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award. Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top-ten-best mystery novels of the year. The Nelscott books have received nominations for almost every award in the mystery field, including the best novel Edgar Award, and the Shamus Award. She writes goofy romance novels as award-winner Kristine Grayson, romantic suspense as Kristine Dexter, and futuristic sf as Kris DeLake.  She also edits. Beginning with work at the innovative publishing company, Pulphouse, followed by her award-winning tenure at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, she took fifteen years off before returning to editing with the original anthology series Fiction River, published by WMG Publishing. She acts as series editor with her husband, writer Dean Wesley Smith, and edits at least two anthologies in the series per year on her own. To keep up with everything she does, go to kriswrites.com and sign up for her newsletter. To track her many pen names and series, see their individual websites (krisnelscott.com, kristinegrayson.com, krisdelake.com, retrievalartist.com, divingintothewreck.com). She lives and occasionally sleeps in Oregon.

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Research and the Research Librarian

Research and the Research Librarian

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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Research and the Research Librarian

It was a quixotic quest. Stacey lived in the past, but she normally didn’t live in her past. Normally, she picked an era, researched the hell out of it, and wrote a kick-ass bestselling historical book, usually about something most historians looked down upon, and then moved onto another item.

And usually the past she spent her time in was pre-1958, when her own past began. Or rather, her future. Or, whatever.

But here she sat, in the newspapers archive at the brand-new Harold Washington branch of the Chicago Public Library, researching her own history—and only because she couldn’t remember it.

The chair she sat in was deeply uncomfortable—made of blonde wood like a student desk chair from her childhood—and the microfiche reader was touchy. The library had just upgraded the microfiche readers so that she could make photocopies directly from images she saw in front of her—for a mere dime per page.

Mere dimes per page added up. Usually when she did this research, she wrote down the information on a notebook. She had a hugely expensive Macintosh PowerBook laptop that she kept in the backpack at her feet. She had found that laptop drew too much attention when she tried to balance it on her lap while working the microfiche room. Patrons wanted to know what it was, and most librarians somehow thought she was stealing information from the newspapers without paying for it.

Of course, most people had never seen a laptop computer before. They had only read about such things, and wanted to see