I want the reader to feel every detail so if they pick up one of my books 20 years from now, whether it’s written from a historical point-of-view or present day, they are in the moment. Where they come from and how they became that person are important facts to add. It doesn’t matter if they’re protagonists or villains I like them to be whole and well-drawn. Regardless of the landscape, I’ve always given my characters back stories with timelines to fill in the blanks. Modern, present-day stories are easier to navigate. Historical fiction offers a chance to create multiple layers of a time frame. Have you written historical fiction before? How does the creative process differ from writing fiction set in the modern day? Thomas spoke to PW about balancing verisimilitude with storytelling the photograph that led to the development of her protagonist, Dahlia Holt and the art of connecting our collective pasts to the present. Thomas’s What Passes as Love (Lake Union Publishing), a mixed-race daughter of a plantation owner passes as white and escapes enslavement.
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