Behind the Scenes: How "Old Ironsides" Became Fiction for America's 250th

A quick look behind the piece that duniaga.com just featured. The idea came out of a mismatch: the real "Old Ironsides" is meticulously preserved, but preservation isn't the same as being alive in a story. Closing that gap took research into the ship's actual history before a single line of fiction got written. It's the same method behind every release in the Dex System Semiquincentennial series — start with what's real, then ask what's next. That's the thinking underneath the fiction — the rest is on the page.

Also new from AM I AM Publishing: E-Drive: The Good Ghost, available now on Books2Read. Behind-the-scenes research got an assist from Gemini.

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Source: http://duniaga.com/news/as-america-turns-250-a-new-kind-of-old-ironsides-emerges-in-fiction/0554712/