Complex sentence: Black Mountain is the setting for the 2009 novel One Second After, which was written by William R. Forstchen, a resident of the town; many local institutions and residents are featured in the novel, beneath a thin veneer of fiction.
Split into simpler sentences: Black Mountain is the setting for the 2009 novel One Second After, which was written by William R. Forstchen, a resident of the town. Many local institutions and residents are featured in the novel, beneath a thin veneer of fiction.