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{{quote|''"These days we have become all too desensitised to violence on paper and on screen: real life violence is not ‘Schwarzenegger violence’, it does not have a certificate or a schedule; it is protracted, unglamorous, long-lasting and ruthless."''|'''Lysander'''|''[https://heathenharvest.org/2012/03/17/peter-sotos-buyers-market/ Review of Buyer's Market by Peter Sotos]''}}
{{quote|The problem is you can’t always write aliens. You can’t always write fairies. And I didn’t feel qualified to write Americans. And there’s only so many people without a past you can write. (I was hit over the head, I swear. I remember nothing but two minutes in the past.)
I decided to do the sensible thing and write stories set in Portugal and/or with Portuguese characters. It did not go WELL.
The BEST response I got (it was personal!) was a rejection informing me I was a narrowminded pain, who clearly had never been outside the US (this, btw, for a story I didn’t think was in ANY WAY critical of Portugal. Yeah, there are things that drive me nuts about the place, but I also love many of those things. Kind of like you’ll love the way your kid always looks scruffy. I thought that was clear in the story. The thing this person objected to? The fact that no one refrigerated anything and the fact that TO THEM the place sounded icky.)
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That is, to write about Portugal, I had to know enough about the US to know at least [[Theme Park Version|what was LIKELY to be in the editor’s head when the word Portugal was said]]. I had to know what they expected.
| ''[https://accordingtohoyt.com/2011/06/16/betraying-a-little/ Betraying A Little]'' by '''Sarah A. Hoyt''' }}
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