On Writing What You Know
It’s with a little nervousness as well as excitement that I plan author events this Fall that will take me, among other places, to Laramie, Wyoming, and Leadville, Colorado, two cities I write about (quite fantastically) in my historical science fiction novel, The Ghosts of Watt O’Hugh.
I have never been to Laramie, and Leadville only briefly, if at all, long ago.
At one point early in the novel, my 19th century hero, the titular Watt O’Hugh, finds himself locked up in Laramie’s territorial prison, planning a jailbreak. Near the end, he has a harrowing time in bustling, gilded, silver-rush era Leadville, from which he only narrowly escapes. In fact, my Laramie reading will take place in the very prison where O’Hugh is incarcerated (it’s now a museum). What did I get wrong? I am sure they will let me know!
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I have never been to Laramie, and Leadville only briefly, if at all, long ago.
At one point early in the novel, my 19th century hero, the titular Watt O’Hugh, finds himself locked up in Laramie’s territorial prison, planning a jailbreak. Near the end, he has a harrowing time in bustling, gilded, silver-rush era Leadville, from which he only narrowly escapes. In fact, my Laramie reading will take place in the very prison where O’Hugh is incarcerated (it’s now a museum). What did I get wrong? I am sure they will let me know!
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