The statue of a Greek archer, found in the temple of Aphaia on the island of Aegina, just offshore of Athens. The temple was built circa 600 BC. This statue is a 3D printed copy of the original and painted to what they think it looked like back then. –currently on display at the “Chroma”…
When a new book comes out, sometimes people give the author gifts to celebrate. When you have a new Eye of Isis book out, they give you a Sphinx rubber duck filled with lip balm. Life can hold no more. The first two novels in the Eye of Isis series. Order on Amazon.USOrder on Amazon.UK…
Join me tonight at 7pm at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale for the launch of Theft of an Idol, the third Eye of Isis novel! Middle Sea sensation Herminia has vanished just before the curtain rises on a controversial production of Lysistrata. The last person to see her alive has been most foully murdered.…
[from “Any Taint of Vice,” a Kate Shugak short story She drove into Niniltna and hitched a ride into Anchorage on one of George’s Suulutaq Mine crew-change flights. Kurt was waiting for her when they landed at Merrill. An ex–Park rat, an ex–bear poacher and an ex–drug smuggler, Kurt was these days a private investigator.…
Read more …the larger per capita percentage of perps and felons filled in the predator gap.
Impossible to over emphasize how essential the Nile River was to the ancient Egyptians. The annual flood watered their farmlands and was the chief means of transportation along its 4,000-mile length. A nation that can feed itself with grain with enough left over for trade and a reliable means of shipping it is de facto…
So…Isis3 publishes in 12 days, as you could hardly have missed if you follow this blog. On November 3rd at the Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale I’ll be signing the hardcover, where people will ask me questions about the book, like where the idea for it came from (well, I’m sorry, but you do always ask…
In the Nubian Museum in Aswan I saw this display of thin palettes sliced from schist. The schist palettes were used to grind the mineral stibnite into the powder known as kohl, which Egyptians used as eyeliner from about 3000 BC on. We were about to see kohl eyeliner on many, many images of pharaohs…
From the wall of the Temple of Horus at Edfu. It is one of very few contemporary images of Cleopatra VII’s sigil left for us to see. Note the Feather of Ma’at, second from right. It was the symbol of the goddess Ma’at, and of truth and justice in ancient Egypt. It is worn as…
I heard recently from a friend whose sister applied to Storyknife and didn’t get in. I wrote back as follows. Please do tell your sister to apply again. We had 599 applicants last year, it was tough. There are even more this year (our poor adjudication committee). In some ways this is very gratifying, but…
So there I was, descending down into Egyptian tombs and crypts built three or four thousand years before, doing research for the Eye of Isis novels. The craftsmanship of the tomb paintings and temple carvings is such that it does not require much sleight of mind to imagine yourself back in that day. Although, sometimes?…
