Fiction

Good fiction writers do a lot of research about the setting of their novels. They probably put as much time into that as the writing. The book I recently read, Midnight Crossroad nearly turned me of because of the character names were so foreign to Texas except Chuy and Joe. But I persevered and all those strange named people were strange. The description of this north central Texas town was real enough and the story was fun. So I'm glad I continued to read.

Sometime back I read a mystery that was set in Ireland. The author made many errors and the most glaring was the protagonist having to watch her step for fear of snakes. Ireland doesn't have any snakes except perhaps in zoos- never had any-St. Patrick notwithstanding. I thought that I might do a complete rewrite of her book as an exercise in writing fiction but never did.

edited to add: I've never heard of "Mexican screen doors" either. We don't have them in Texas unless you count the screen doors owned by Mexican people living in Texas.