I spent this past winter in Brazil, doing character and location research for my series. I spent a lot of time on a mountain in the middle of nowhere. On the mountain there is an orphanage, about 60 kids from the big city favellas. I volunteered there.

Also on the mountain was a buddhist “retreat” run by a German-Brazilian family, and I stayed there when I wasn’t at the orphanage.

I’ll talk more about how Brazil fits in to the series at another time, but I wanted to share a few of the photos.

Tags: brazil, photos, research, writing