“Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.” – Mark Twain

“The good ended happily, the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.” – Oscar Wilde

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” – Stephen King

“Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guess work. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.” – Margaret Culkin Banning

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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past decade, I’ve helped more than 300 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the 7 Minutes a Day… writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.