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

A quick look behind the piece that thescoredaily.com just featured. The research for this one started with the ship itself — how vessels like "Old Ironsides" are actually preserved, restored, and argued over — long before any plot took shape. The fiction grew out of the space between the official memorial version of that history and a version where the ship still matters in the present tense. It's one entry in the wider Dex System Semiquincentennial series built on that same approach. 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 Barnes & Noble. Research support for this post came in part from Claude.

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

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