Inspiration on the hard hat tour.
Last week’s Reader Meet Writer event with Terry Roberts was rather special because it featured Heather Bell Adams (The Good Luck Stone) as guest interviewer and, it was immediately clear, very good friend of the author.
Roberts’ new novel, My Mistress’ Eyes Are Raven Black is a noir thriller set in the 1920s on Ellis Island. The discussion ranged far and wide from matters of craft to the haunting feeling of the abandoned buildings not many people see when they visit. “We took the hard hat tour,” Roberts tells Adams. “It takes you to the parts of the island that are completely unreconstructed, the primary general hospital and the isolation hospital. They are haunting, haunted places.”
It was during that tour that Roberts, already planning his novel, found his setting. Watch the interview.
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