How to Create a Captivating Setting for Your Book

Give your book's setting—whether real or fictional—a mood, personality, and history, so it truly comes alive for your readers.

The best book settings don’t just serve as a backdrop for characters, instead the setting should be a character in and of itself.

If you’ve read The Great Gatsby, you probably haven’t forgotten the West and East Eggs, made up locations for two peninsulas along the northern shore of Long Island, and the valley of ashes that lies at the midpoint between th…