How a Small Idea turned into my Leitmotif
When my inventive cover designer, our fellow-blogger Diana Wilder, sent me the cover for KHAMSIN, The Devil Wind of The Nile, she had inserted a small Khepri, a Winged Scarab. “Wow, that looks cool,” I thought.
When I uploaded a corrected copy of the book, I inserted a paragraph where this scarab becomes the personal seal of Ramose, the High Priest of Ptah, chiseled onto the Golden Tablets.
As I wrote SIROCCO, Storm over Land and Sea, I highlighted this same scarab on the rediscovered Golden Tablets. Again, I asked Diana Wilder to superimpose a scarab on the cover, a stolen Rembrandt painting, to tie the two books together. The series of the Legends of the Winged Scarab was born. This, of course, would imply that there will be other volumes. They are in the works—or, at least, rumbling around in my head.
SOUTHERN TRADES (as in Trade Winds) Book 3
plays out in 2016 on the Venezuelan Island of Santa Margarita
6000 years ago, an unknown civilization-NO, not from Atlantis), survive a volcanic eruption on Crete. They land in a lush and green Sahara—later weaving their legends onto the Ancient Mats (in 3080 translated onto the Golden Tablets under Ramose).
Please check out the blog about my historial fiction: http://devilwinds.blogspot.com/
PS: These drafts have not had the benefit of Diana’s input.
I urge you to check out Diana’s own fabulous covers for her Memphis Series here:
Your thoughts on these draft covers would be highly appreciated.
I love the Khepri cover - v. dramatic.
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DeleteAs always, thank you, VikLit, for checking in. Diana will probably chastise me because the scarab is from the 18th Dynasty (King Tut's tomb)--wayyy off for my stories...
DeleteTo all our bloggers who have combined the "Celebration" with the "A to Z" challenge: When I try to bring up those blogs, my 'lil old computer gets itself into a complete snit. It seems that it just can't handle loading up those thousand-plus links...I am really bummed about that. Time to think about upgrading, perhaps?
Thank you for sharing thhis
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