So, do you really believe novelists just make stuff up? After all, they call this fiction. We don’t know how it’s really done, so we fudge?
Well, that would be the easy way out, but truth is, novelists HATE those letters you write us that point out Ash Wednesday and Easter do NOT occur during the same week (I knew that!), or our heroines really can’t have a certain bust size and be the height and weight we claim (a good writer friend got that one recently, complete with charts.) Given that none of us want to make errors, a lot of research is necessary.

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