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The experience of constant travel as a marketing consultant obviated the need to do a lot of research for the setting and background. I have to confess I don’t know a great deal about living and working in Orlando, though one of my biggest clients was headquartered there, and I visited often. For the most part, the setting is generic – fictional hotels, companies and street names. I think it’s important to fictionalize things like these when you’re describing things on the inside, because you don’t want Marriott or Hyatt management chiding you for errors. I did manage to sneak in a fictional account of a personal experience, that of watching a shuttle launch from the press site. I had the chance to see that back in the early 90s when I was working at a newspaper near the Kennedy Space Center.
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