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At Sister Love's - Norman T. Ray
23 mai 2019

Thorne Industries must move! #SisterLove

There's no such thing as "doing enough research"... The worst case scenario is when you DON'T KNOW you should have done research. I became a victim of that in the first ever version of "Who Is Sister Love?". One of my two known readers (in France, but not only, on a global scale also, not tomention the whole known universe), Vivien Prigent, had noticed such an impossibility: there has NEVER been a job of Governor of Washington, there's only a Mayor.

Before someone asks the question, let the answer be written here for posterity's sake: I was not thinking about Donald Trump while creating Steven Thorne. You would have to be prescient to have predicted his election in 2011...

Anyway, another singularity of Washington had visibly escaped me, the very nice skycraper of Thorne Industries had no chance to be located there, because as you probably know, skycrapers are all bot forbidden in Washington! And, not only had I placed there the building of Thorne Industries, but one of the final scenes takes place where there are, not one, but TWO skycrapers under construction. Moments like that leave you somewhat numb, I can tell you...

So I had to revise the first book. It turned out to be quite quick. On the other side of the Potomac is Rosslyn, in the Arlington County. It's a... town? (I put an interrogation mark because it has no ruling institution, it's what is called an unincorporated area); and that area does indeed have skycrapers. Problem résolved, at five minutes of driving from Washington, and that doesn't prevent Steven Thorne from living in Washington.

Another topic for the revision was to replace all "2014" mentions with "Nowadays". It doesn't make any sense to keep the story set in the year 2014, we're now in 2019, and all things considered, nothing I've written refers to that specific year. It dates the novel too much, and for no good reason.

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  • Author of the electronic novel Who Is Sister Love?, Norman T. Ray created this blog to write about the adventure of this ebook. Welcome! Pour la version française, voici le lien : http://normantrayfr.canalblog.com
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