Community members were able to relive the best parts of childhood at the Boozy Book Fair in San Luis Obispo today. The event took place at the Humdinger Brewing Taproom.
by Alan Stamm Fictional characters resemblances to actual people aren t always purely coincidental, of course. The it s-all-made-up disclaimer before Page 1 is a legal shield, not a barrier that keeps authors from writing what they know. And popular novelist Stephen Mack Jones of Farmington Hills certainly knows a real-life Detroit billionaire who s distinctly like a pivotal figure in Dead of Winter, his newly published third book in a series about private investigator August Snow.
Stephen Mack Jones, author of three novels about a biracial former Detroit cop
(Photo: Twitter) The supposedly made-up character is introduced in Chapter 2 on Page 11 as Detroit s resident billionaire, Vic Bronson, a man who d made his fortune selling mortgages. The setup continues: