Babymooning On the Inside of a Novel

A few months ago, Tommy and I fled the Texas heat to babymoon in Traverse City and Leelanau County, Michigan, the setting of my novel The Honest Lies. If you’re unfamiliar with the term “babymoon,” think celebration vacation with a child who can’t scream or blow out diapers yet.  Whenever a reader asks why I set my book in northern Michigan, I tend to panic. I’ve never lived there. In fact, before penning the novel I had been in the state...