Story on the story behind the story

9781772060324_FCThere’s a great article/interview with Tracey Rombough, in a recent edition of The [New Glasgow] News. Tracey’s debut novel, Immortal Air, is enjoying brisk sales here in Nova Scotia and in the Kingston, ON, area.

A number of years ago, while doing some renovations at her Millhaven, ON, home, Tracey uncovered a dirt-encrusted ruby ring, inside of which was engraved “to Ella Mae.”

Research revealed that Ella Mae Emigh, a former resident of the home, was married to George Frederick Cameron, a Confederation poet and former editor of a Kingston-area newspaper. Cameron grew up in New Glasgow, NS, was educated in Boston and died tragically near Kingston.

Tracey’s curiosity and a few years chasing research – from Nova Scotia, to Boston, to Vancouver and Kingston – became a wonderful biographical novel.

You can read Adam MacInnis’s article here.

Posted by Mike Hunter on October 23, 2015

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