Author finds a new U.P. as she writes about it

Sometimes, a place isn't what you think it is. Even if you've written a whole book about it, as the author of this piece--and a book set in the U.P.--finds out.

Excerpt: I wrote a book, as yet unpublished, but it’s a full-scale book full of plotting and characters. It took me months of writing and revising, followed by months of angst as I built up the courage to let anyone, besides my husband, read it. All in all, the reviews have been good.

But now I find myself rethinking the whole thing. The story is set in the Upper Peninsula in a fictional town made up of characters whose traits I gleaned from living up north.

The whole article is online here.

Source: Appleton Post-Crescent