Story on the story behind the story
There’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.