Tracie Weiss asked Janelle Brown:

I just finished What Kind of Paradise and really enjoyed it! I lived in Bozeman, MTand found some inaccuracies in the book that could have been solved by some simple research. For example, Gallatin High School opened in 2020, Bozeman never had a Walgreens and you mention Univeristy of Montana students when it is Montana State that is located in Bozeman. How do you research the areas you write about?

Janelle Brown Hi! Well, when it came to Bozeman some of my writing was based by the time I spent there in the 90's, when my family had a home near Bridger Pass. Other research was done by going through government and local Web sites and doing lots of searches! I knew about the Gallatin High mistake - this was supposed to have been fixed in copy edits and somehow made it through. I can't believe I missed the Montana State mistake, thank you for flagging that (and Walgreens, that's news to me!). Usually fact checkers find those kinds of errors but clearly they didn't this time. Glad you enjoyed the book despite the local mistakes!!!

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