Cover Art!

[elingregory]

It arrived this morning - all golden and honey warm.

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?

Comments

[jl_merrow]

Congratulations! Looks very eye-catching, and I love the font!
Mmm, men in skirts... ;)

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

:D thanks. I think the artist has done the book proud.

Men in skirts - and in nothing at all quite a lot of the time. :) The Greeks had such a healthy attitude to male nudity.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Very nice indeed - congratulations!

If I have a tiny quibble it's TOO MANY BLOODY FONTS but otherwise it's smashing!

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

An improvement on the previous one with the odd i in Like and those ΣΣ looked a bit odd too. This font is called Achilles, I think, and is much easier to read.

*bounce* it's exciting.

[rebecca-cohen.livejournal.com]

You should be pleased... that is a fantastic cover!

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

:D thank you. I am very pleased.

[jessie-lansdel.livejournal.com]

Συγχαρητήρια. And I love it. :-)

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

σας ευχαριστώ! :) I think it's a very nice one.

[surexit.livejournal.com]

Oh, it sounds and looks lovely. :D:D:D

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Thank you, lovely. :D

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

WOOHOO!!

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

XD < that's the face I made when I saw it. I particularly like that the man boobies aren't TOO obvious.

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.

[wulfila.livejournal.com]

That's a really beautiful cover! I like the warm colours a lot.

(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? ;)).

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) it's very appropriate because honey figures in the story. I like it very much.

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?

[wulfila.livejournal.com]

Yes, please! That sounds like an awesome story.

[yakalskovich]

Congratulations!! I'd give you fireworks, but ran out of icon space (next paid account will be on DreamWidth!), so have a baby hedgehog instead.

The cover is fabulous, and I'm so glad you're getting published. You so deserve to be!

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

aww I love your baby hedgehog.

It's a NICE cover - one I'm very happy to see my name on! But you need to do something too!

[yakalskovich]

Yes, I know: - I think I'll re-read what I have of that old Wraeththu thing on Monday and start cutting it up for my piece for that anthology. Monday is a holiday here, and so is Tuesday. I want to have something that can be shown by the end of them. Perhaps not finished -- I need to write the part with the ending and the punch-line yet -- but definitely a presentable beginning.

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

And I will beta when you're ready. :D

[yakalskovich]

Oh, that is lovely of you! Yes, I would very much appreciate that.

And I appreciate that you read the beginning of the book to have context!

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Wonderful! And really you scarcely notice the torsos. OTOH, if ever there was a setting for which naked torsos was entirely appropriate, this would be it :)

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

:D thank you! And yes, clothing is pretty optional in the story.

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.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Thanks lovely!

Wheee!

[gaycrow.livejournal.com]

The colour is striking!

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

Re: Wheee!

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

:) I'm glad you like it.

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.

[melanietushmore.livejournal.com]

yaaay, hun!

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

I'm making my smiley face today! *hugs*

[melanietushmore.livejournal.com]

big smiles!! :D

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Hurray! I'm pleased too. (And I wish your blurb was the blurb because it's witty and warm and makes me want to read the book.)

So pleased for you.

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Thank you *hugs* That blurb certainly has more bounce to it than the one I submitted.

[clmiles.livejournal.com]

How exciting!! Congratulations!

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Hee, love the icon. I wish i could do that!

Thanks hun *hugs*

[casfic.livejournal.com]

Of course I can tell you're pleased, and so you should be! It looks great.

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Thanks :D I'm still in a state of shock that a] I finished something and b] I was brave enough to submit it. But the idea of it is getting very real now i have a cover for it?

*hugs* You do know that without your and Judy's encouragement I'd never even have taken the first step, don't you?

[casfic.livejournal.com]

Aw shucks!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Splendid! It looks great! You must be over the moon :)