Cover Art!
Feb. 19th, 2012 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elingregory
Alike As Two Bees - a novella set near Athens in the mid 4th century BC - is about an apprentice sculptor called Philon who wishes to use the most beautiful horse he has ever seen as a model for a masterpiece. Her rider, Hilarion, is not beautiful at all but has a cheery grin that Philon can't ignore. Meanwhile Hilarion would be fancying the pants off Philon, if he was wearing any, but will settle for him in a chiton.
Ancient Greece in all its sunlit, olive shaded glory with some gentle loving thrown in for the heck of it.
The above blurb, of course, isn't the offical one but i need to get the spellings checked on that so it will do for now.
I'm pleased. Can you tell I'm pleased?
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Date: 2012-02-19 11:04 am (UTC)Mmm, men in skirts... ;)
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Date: 2012-02-19 12:26 pm (UTC)Men in skirts - and in nothing at all quite a lot of the time. :) The Greeks had such a healthy attitude to male nudity.
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Date: 2012-02-19 11:15 am (UTC)If I have a tiny quibble it's TOO MANY BLOODY FONTS but otherwise it's smashing!
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Date: 2012-02-19 12:24 pm (UTC)*bounce* it's exciting.
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Date: 2012-02-19 04:10 pm (UTC)Pirates next then it's a toss up between 1920s spies and poor little Gwyn Derry who has been quietly asking for attention for ages.
*hugs* thank you honey. You know what for.
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Date: 2012-02-19 04:06 pm (UTC)(And, hey, you can still put Philon in pants if he has to dress up as a Scythian for any reason - to impersonate the police (http://historyoftheancientworld.com/2011/08/the-scythian-archers-policing-athens/), maybe? ;)).
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Date: 2012-02-19 04:16 pm (UTC)I'd love to write about the archers. They make a guest appearance in Lysistrata and were famous for being horny and drunk! :) Maybe a pardoy police procedural about a well born Athenian who pissed off Pericles and is stuck trying to control a gang of crazy metics and slaves?
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Date: 2012-02-19 04:07 pm (UTC)The cover is fabulous, and I'm so glad you're getting published. You so deserve to be!
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Date: 2012-02-19 04:18 pm (UTC)It's a NICE cover - one I'm very happy to see my name on! But you need to do something too!
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Date: 2012-02-19 04:28 pm (UTC)And I appreciate that you read the beginning of the book to have context!
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Date: 2012-02-19 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-19 05:32 pm (UTC)The torsos are there but I got my Greek stuff so I think we're satisfied all round. I suspect that actual Greek readers might be laughing their socks off because the font uses greek letters that don't mean the same but I hope they'll be tolerant.
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Date: 2012-02-19 07:56 pm (UTC)Wheee!
Date: 2012-02-19 07:55 pm (UTC)I didn't even notice the naked torsos when I first looked. Now that I can see them, they do stand out. Our eyes and brains are very strange indeed. :D
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Date: 2012-02-20 07:48 am (UTC)I think the geometric shapes - the verticals of the columns and the slanting line of the pediment - draw the eye down to the strong dark shape of the horse. I see quite a distinct arrow shape pointing off to the right. A very clever piece of design.
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Date: 2012-02-19 09:02 pm (UTC)So pleased for you.
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Date: 2012-02-20 07:52 am (UTC)Thanks hun *hugs*
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Date: 2012-02-20 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-20 10:06 pm (UTC)*hugs* You do know that without your and Judy's encouragement I'd never even have taken the first step, don't you?
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