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" '...would you consider the 1980s to be historical fiction?' "
"You're gonna hate this, but the 1980s is absolutely historical fiction. So I was a kid in the '80s, and back then I thought that World War II was like the oldest thing in the world, but guess what? When I was a kid, WWII was 40 years earlier. For kids today, the 1980s is 40 years earlier.
Here, I'll do another one! When I was a kid I thought that like hippies, 1960s people, Woodstock were like totally ancient history, right? For kids today, that's Y2K. That's how long ago that was; 9/11.
I work in children's books, so I mean I deal with this a lot, and I recently sold a book set in 2005...that is historical fiction.
If your target audience wasn't born, it's historical fiction. Sorry?
via Tiktok @ literaticat)

























