I've greatly enjoyed your Baroque Cycle, and find it especially refreshing that many of the details of the time period seem well-fleshed out - I'm not an expert on the time period, but the world is extremely realistic.
The question is - how much time-period research do you do for your novels (esp. The Baroque Cycle)? Have you been nitpicked by experts on details? I find it exhausting to even imagine the amount of research that must go into works that are this vibrantly and painstakingly realized, and can't imagine how you manage to do all of that research and write 1000+ page novels!
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I've greatly enjoyed your Baroque Cycle, and find it especially refreshing that many of the details of the time period seem well-fleshed out - I'm not an expert on the time period, but the world is extremely realistic. The question is - how much time-period research do you do for your novels (esp. The Baroque Cycle)? Have you been nitpicked by experts on details? I find it exhausting to even imagine the amount of research that must go into works that are this vibrantly and painstakingly realized, and can't imagine how you manage to do all of that research and write 1000+ page novels!