Sarah Carlson asked Bridget Tyler:

What kind of research did you have to do to capture science behind your book?

Bridget Tyler My research strategy is about 70% just being very interested in science and technology and reading about new advances and cool ideas in my daily rounds of the internet. If something catches my eye, I dig in and usually end up either building a story around it or adding it to the world of a story I'm working on. I'm also married to a robotics engineer so I'm surrounded by smart people doing cool science stuff, many of whom love science fiction! That is incredibly helpful, when you're writing sci fi. For instance, when I realized that I was building the taxonomy for the world in the Pioneer wrong I posted on my facebook feed asking for help. A friend connected me to a friend of hers who is an evolutionary biologist. She helped with my taxonomy and came up with some super cool stuff I can't tell you about because of spoilers. I'm so grateful for that!

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