Pick and choose the truth, dear authors.
When a fictional locale is based on a real one, don’t feel obliged to be true to source.
There are certain realities about the deep rural South that simply don’t fit with my Cozy Mystery’s plot, so I pick and choose what truth to reveal.
Embrace this privilege, writers. In an era of alternative facts, you alone are the rightful royalty.
Until tomorrow…
Chloe