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So I've been putting a disclaimer into the beginning of my novels...
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, names, places and events are purely fictional and not based on any real event. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is an amazing coincidence and nothing more.
Then it dawned on me today, that disclaimer isn't exactly true. I have indeed created characters using my friends' names (with their permission) and even their likenesses. And I've cited real world characters, but in my alternate reality setting- for exmaple, having John Edwards as the 2008 Presidential winner to show that it is an alternate reality.
How do you write a disclaimer to cover that kind of situation? Do you even need a disclaimer like that in the front of a book? I remember Smashwords required a specific wording for their disclaimer page, but I don't have it handy.
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, names, places and events are purely fictional and not based on any real event. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is an amazing coincidence and nothing more.
Then it dawned on me today, that disclaimer isn't exactly true. I have indeed created characters using my friends' names (with their permission) and even their likenesses. And I've cited real world characters, but in my alternate reality setting- for exmaple, having John Edwards as the 2008 Presidential winner to show that it is an alternate reality.
How do you write a disclaimer to cover that kind of situation? Do you even need a disclaimer like that in the front of a book? I remember Smashwords required a specific wording for their disclaimer page, but I don't have it handy.