First of all, can I just say, swoooon? I mean, I LOVE the U.S. cover and I wouldn't change a thing but it was still very exciting to see a different interpretation. I responded accordingly:
1. OMG, isn't it gorgeous?
2. This is so beautiful I want to hug it!
3. Awww, look there's a moon! Because Selene means moon!
4. I want a poster of this. Do you think I could get a poster of this?
5. Begin at #1 and repeat cycle three times
Then, just to make my day complete, someone who shall not be named asked, "Wow, is that how you spell your name in German?"
Ha!
It took a while, but my obsessive brain eventually reclaimed its dominance over happy brain, with one evil little whisper: That's not a Ptolemaic crown.
Oh, right. Still, isn't it gorgeous?
But that crown is from the Amarna period, specific to Nefertiti in the 18th Dynasty. No Greek Ptolemaic queen was ever depicted with that kind of crown.
True, but that doesn't mean a Ptolemaic queen never wore a crown like that. I mean, she could've right? Maybe she was playing dress-up! Also there is a scene in the book where Selene puts on a blue crown of war.
That's an entirely different crown.
Still.
The crown on the cover is not a Ptolemaic crown.
True. But how many people are even going to know that?
Egyptologists will know. And they will judge you for it!
Seriously, can you leave my head now? Because here's the thing--there's nothing I can do about it.
That's not a Ptolemaic crown.
Sigh.
So, yeah. Welcome to my brain. The only way to manage it is to go back to step 1:
1. OMG, isn't it gorgeous?
2. This is so beautiful I want to hug it!
3. Awww, look there's a moon! Because Selene means moon!
4. I want a poster of this. Do you think I could get a poster of this?
5. Repeat!
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