Transcript
Book 2, Front Matter
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
The 21st century Alexander Romance
Author and Illustrator: Reimena Yee
Editor: Atla Hrafney
Consultant: Richard StonemanBook Two: Katabasis
double page cover illustration, very stylised. A large black lion rears over Alexander and Philip, who is standing behind him. Alexander is carrying a xiphos (Ancient Greek sword) up to his and Philip’s faces; the sword reveals a shadow Alexander with ram’s horns, and another figure with ram’s eyes. They are both haloed by the Vergina Sun.
The lion is a silhouette that contains two halves of a big composition.
The top half is three scenes framed by Greecian columns, each scene a version of Alexander’s conception. The first is Persian/Mughal-styled scene of the marriage of Olympias and the shah of Persia, with a spotted dragon as witness. The second is in the Author’s style of Olympias and a tall ram-headed diety, in front of a wall of an Egyptian palace that is painted with a father and son looking at the stars. The third is a medieval European scene of Olympias in bed with a horned dragon, with Philip spying through a window.
The bottom half is Alexander, the Servant, Bucephalus and the Servant’s donkey relaxing by the campfire at night, right by two pyramids. Two crows fly above them.
An overhang of neem, pipal, oak and myrtle foliage joins the two halves. A two-headed snake flows under the lion.
Book 2 Frontmatter
✨ ANNOUNCEMENT
Thank you everyone who waited during the hiatus (a hiatus prompted by postgraduate studies RIP)! I’m excited to announce that Book Two is DROPPING SOON!!
The tentative date is at the end of this month, as soon as I settle down from travelling for a book tour and Lunar New Year family / birthday* shenanigans. Book Two is going to be a wild one, and will be the start of all the ambitious visual and narrative promises I hinted at in Book One. It will be a slow, one page a week update until I get my bearings.
*it’s also my birthday today :p (Feb 15)
In the meantime, Book One: The Hero’s Journey is completed and available to read for free (look back on this archive!!), or for a price in PDF and deluxe hardcover in English and French.
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