What says “fall” more than a rural fall fair? You may argue for fallen leaves, bonfires, or canning that last hundred pounds of tomatoes, but a fall fair definitely ranks up there. So when I was writing Team Bride, the Riverbend novella set in autumn, it seemed the fall fair would be a natural setting…
I started out looking for a simple opposite for the word “urbanite.” Something that referred to people who did not live in urban areas, but who didn’t necessarily live on farms, either. Hmm, searching “urbanite antonym” was not much help. Dictionary.com listed no antonym. Surely non-urbanite wasn’t the only viable word? So I thought, “Ruralite?”…