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

Written By Morgan Burns

klexplore.com ran the announcement — here's the part that usually gets left out: how the idea actually took shape. Before any scene got written, the question came first: what does a symbol like "Old Ironsides" actually do once the anniversary it represents finally shows up? Answering that meant digging into the ship's real history and the gap between how something gets memorialized and how it might actually keep going. That question is the spine of this title inside the larger Dex System Semiquincentennial series. More of these behind-the-scenes notes will run as the series continues.

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

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


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