by Stephanie Dray | Dec 17, 2010 | Miscellany, Song of the Nile
It was a gorgeous day to visit the nation’s capital, even with an inch of snow on the ground. Then again, any day that I get to visit the Library of Congress and use my shiny library card is a good day. My visit today was a mission to find a map of the Roman...
by Stephanie Dray | Dec 16, 2010 | Miscellany
Mark Antony comes to us through history most famously in Shakespeare as the man who fled from the naval battle at Actium to chase after his lover, Cleopatra. Even setting aside the the bard’s famous play, there’s also the historical record which includes several...
by Stephanie Dray | Dec 12, 2010 | Lily of the Nile, Miscellany
It’s pretty great to hold the Advanced Review Copies (ARCs), but there’s nothing, absolutely nothing like holding the book for the first time. I didn’t know I was going to have raised sparkly silver lettering on the front and I’m pretty sure I...
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...
by Stephanie Dray | Dec 1, 2010 | Miscellany, Other Writers
Sometimes it seems as if Fantasy and Historical Fiction each exist in their own little corner of the literary universe, each side snarling at the other for perceived pedantry or lack of intellectual rigor. Relatively few authors dare to blend the two genres, which has...
