March Is Question Month

[mallorys_camera]

March is Question Month, as anais_pf reminds us.

So go ahead: Ask me a question.

I'll answer anything -- even questions from anonymous readers of whom there are a few or so recent experience suggests. And I'll answer them truthfully.

Comments

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

I've been keeping a diary since I was 12 years old.

At the time I decided to keep my diary online, I was writing a novel that began with the assassination of the Dalai Lama. Subsequent thrills and chills took Our Heroine to the Himalayas where she discovers... Mallory's camera, one of the great mysteries of mountain climbing.

George Mallory was an English mountain climber whom many people believe ascended Mt Everest 30 years before Hillary. His frozen corpse was found in 1999, huge event in the climbing community. Anyway, he carried a camera with him that would have documented the ascent. The camera has never been found.

Something about the metaphor of this cheap little camera that recorded Man's highest ascent and then disappeared appealed to me... :-)

[starlight-pf.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is a story that gave me goosebumps. Very interesting!

Did you finish that novel?

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I did not. I should actually dig it up and try to finish it -- it's got great commercial potential and I modeled its heroine after a particularly interesting friend of mine.

[starlight-pf.livejournal.com]

I'd buy it.