Today I went to another author event - this time with young adult author Esther Friesner and her new book Sphinx's Princess (released September 22, 2009). The book is the first book of a two part series about Nefertiti - as a young girl in this one and as a queen in the sequel Sphinx's Queen (due out Fall 2010).This was a small event - there were about a dozen people there, and Esther was the sweetest lady. We talked all about Egypt, the culture, her research, past and future works. She had a door prize raffle for a scarab beetle bead and my boyfriend won! Pretty cool since I brought him along for company. It being a small setting we got to ask all kinds of questions and it was nice compared to the huge one I was at for Audrey Niffenegger.
You may be familiar with Esther's previous works, Nobody's Princess and Nobody's Prize - about Helen of Troy. She also has another book coming out at the end of 2010 about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory tragedy, tentitively titled Threads and Flames - if you don't know anything about this, check out the Wikipedia entry. I was very excited when she mentioned this, because I had to write a paper on this incident in my women's history/sociology class a year ago - so I will be looking forward to that one.
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Wow! This continues to impress ma Dear! I don't know this author but am now looking into her books-Thanks:)
ReplyDeleteWow, I too have always been fascinated by the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, particulary since I live in NY, where you can walk by where the building used to be in the village. Now I have to look up her Helen of Troy books!
ReplyDeleteI need to look up this author's books now! They sound fascinating.
ReplyDeleteI got Nobody’s Princess and
ReplyDeleteNobody’s Prize on my tbr list. I love historical novels and am so curious if I'm going to enjoy the books. I'm prety sure i will. :)