Joshilyn Jackson has always wished for the ability to make something she read about in a novel reality.
In this installment of “Writer To Reader” on “City Lights,” the best-selling author discusses what she calls “fict-facts” (short for fictional-factuals), the objects one would get if they took something out of a book and made it real.
Fict-facts began when Jackson’s brother made her a doll that appeared in her book “Between Georgia” for Christmas. Later, being inspired by the quilt work of folk artist Pamela Allen, Jackson wrote “The Girl Who Stopped Swimming,” a book centered on an art quilter. Jackson told Allen about her work being the inspiration for the book and, after reading it, Allen decided to make real a quilt Jackson had described in the book.
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