facts in fiction Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/tag/facts-in-fiction/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 05:14:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Reality Bits: Fact in Family Fiction https://booksbywomen.org/reality-bits-fact-in-family-fiction-by-lynda-loigman/ https://booksbywomen.org/reality-bits-fact-in-family-fiction-by-lynda-loigman/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2016 05:03:30 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15429 One week after my debut novel was published, one of my father’s cousins called me. I hadn’t spoken to her for almost a decade, but she had seen my book in the new fiction section of her local bookstore. We talked for a while, and she asked whether the story was about some of our […]

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