Ask any author and they will tell you: Research is first, last, and every moment in between writing.
No author is knowledgeable about everything. That romance you love about the hero who is a pilot--yep!--that incredibly believable aerial jargon he uses before he offers the full use of his cockpit to the heroine, researched. That word you laughed at in the story because it sounds like a bad pun for blushing like a small farm animal? (Yes, redingote is a delightful, antiquated term for a...