Fiction set in real life

I read a piece in The Guardian about Project Bookmark Canada, an organization that’s mission is to “place permanent markers displaying text from stories and poems in the locations where they take place.”

What a novel idea (pardon the pun).

Though I am a writer of fiction, my first two novels are set in the real world, with only minor geographic variances here and there for a variety of reasons. For example, I invented several streets in SOMETHING MISSING in order to avoid misidentifying any re