“She opened up the big purple binder and flipped through the pages to the entry on Gallows Keep Prison.”
The setup here is that our heroine wakes up, amnesiac in the rain, and must figure out who betrayed her within England’s bureaucracy of the supernatural; she’s aided by copious notes prepared for her by her pre-memory-loss self. Which are inserted in the narrative, verbatim, in italics. This is definitely one way to take care of backstory and exposition; it involves rather a lot of italics, though.
January 12, 2012, 11:00am Comments
