Author parlays newspaper column into bookONLINE EXCLUSIVE
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June 3, 2010 When Florida author Dorothy Fletcher started writing a local history column for her the daily newspaper in her hometown, she had a feeling the content “would make a pretty cool book.”
Fletcher had tweaked the history format to focus on more recent times, roughly 1950-1970, leaving the door narrowly open to sometimes include stories about the 1940s. She proceeded with caution because many of her readers would remember the people, places and creatures that filled her ‘By the Wayside’ columns. The Main Street she shopped on as a young mother, the beaches she strolled before suburban sprawl encroached, and personalities who helped shape the city were a few seeds in a big collection of stories Fletcher could grow.
An independent book editor who read her columns mentioned a publisher, History Press, to Fletcher and told her, “You might be interested in this.”
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