Most writers will tell you they conduct this much research, arms stretched wide, to use this much information, fingers held an inch apart, in the finished book. By the time I completed Blood on the Veld, I had accumulated hundreds of pages about wildlife trafficking, poaching, conservation policy, human-animal conflict, and the economics behind it all. Most of it never appeared in the novel. But many of the stories were too interesting to leave buried in a research file. So I