Photo © 2006 Courtesy of the Author

Robin Brande

In Her Own Words

Not being a science girl myself, I knew if I were going to write a novel like Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature, I’d better spend a proper amount of time doing research. So I’m sorry to say I gave up many lazy summer days (okay, maybe weeks) to plow through Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species, highlighting and underlining and giving myself some massive headaches, before I realized there was a much easier way to go about it.

So that fall I went back to high school. I sat in on freshman biology classes for a month. And... Read More