by Stephanie Dray | Dec 9, 2010 | Lily of the Nile, My Works
This is always the nail-biting time for a writer, when review copies are sent out and there’s nothing to do but wait for the reaction. So far, so good: “Dray deftly mixes magic and history in her debut, the first of a projected trilogy set in ancient...
by Stephanie Dray | Dec 7, 2010 | Lily of the Nile, My Works
Chapter One Something coiled dangerously within the basket I carried, but I’d been told not to open the lid nor to ask what lurked beneath its woven reeds. The basket smelled of comforting cedar and lush figs, but it was embroidered with emblems of Anubis—the...
by Stephanie Dray | Dec 6, 2010 | Articles, Research
There are two prevailing beliefs about Cleopatra. The first is that she was a captivating beauty, so dazzling that she was able to snare two of the world’s most powerful men. The second is that she was an ugly, hook-nosed hag. So which is the truth? Despite, or...
by Stephanie Dray | Dec 3, 2010 | Fun Stuff, Miscellany
I wish I could add something to this neato-cool blog post about ancient water organs, a predecessor of our modern church organ, but the author has said it all. And what the author has to say is really worth reading.
by Stephanie Dray | Dec 2, 2010 | Cleopatra Selene, Lily of the Nile, Miscellany, My Works, Research
The heroine of my debut novel, Lily of the Nile, is Cleopatra’s daughter, the young Princess of Egypt who would be marched as a chained prisoner through the streets of Rome. At the end of a Roman triumph–that military parade during which generals celebrated...
