6/11/2023 0 Comments Electrum color![]() ![]() For the rest of that semester we kept watch at night, hidden at the top of the stairs, watching the door for intruders. But we knew that whoever had set the fire in the residence hall had now come after us and might be back. A few minutes later we stood outside the house, mostly pajama-clad, as our burning, smoking couch was carried from the living room to the back porch and thrown out onto the lawn. One of us had smelled smoke, awakened and alerted the others. I staggered out into the hallway and found it filled with Watermarginers making their way to the fire escape. Some weeks later, I was awakened in the middle of the night by a pounding on the door of my room. The Watermargin House, where I lived at the time, was particularly close to the students of that residence hall, and after their home was destroyed in the fire we found places in Watermargin for several of them to live. I was a sophomore at Cornell University in April 1967, when eight students and a professor were killed in a mysterious night-time fire in their residence hall. Where did the idea come from for the book or project? ![]() What is the working title of your book or project?Ģ. Now here’s the ten questions, and my ten answers …ġ. And my latest is the sequel to Journal of a UFO Investigator, to which I’ve given the title The Color of Electrum.Īt the bottom of this post, you’ll see the writers I’m tagging, and when and where you can read about their exciting new work. We were asked ten questions about our latest project. I’ve had a sneak preview of the manuscript–and it’s terrific!) Novelist and poet Valerie Nieman, author of Blood Clay, did me the honor last month of “tagging” me for a writers’ blog hop on the theme of “My Next Big Thing.” Val posted on her current project, a gripping, suspenseful novel called Backwater, about a young girl’s coming of age and her encounter with horrendous crime.
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