Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Eleanor Brown on Placing Novels in Time

GBF featured author Eleanor Brown ("The Weird Sisters") recently wrote an interesting blog post about her approach to setting a novel in a specific time.

"I didn’t want to write a book with an expiration date," she writes. "Whenever I read a book that makes reference to a pseudo-celebrity (anyone on Jersey Shore, f’rinstance) or a passing scandal (Tiger Woods’ affairs, versus, say, Watergate), I wonder how it will read in two, or five, or ten years."

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