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June 18, 2012
The Straight Characters in Pantheon
See also part one – The Gay Characters in Pantheon
As I mentioned in the previous post, it is anachronistic to apply the terms “gay” and “straight” to the ancient world, so the god characters of Pantheon mostly seem highly bisexual to us. When gods of different genders have sex together, or when they have sex with a human of a different gender, they reflect one half of the wide spectrum of sexuality.
Unsurprisingly, many of the gods have had sex with each other…
In his recording, Ares bragged to...
June 15, 2012
The Gay Characters in Pantheon
When I started writing Pantheon, I knew I wanted to give equal time to a variety of sexual expressions. The ancient world operated under different sexual constructions than we do today, and most of the gods of myth had same-sex encounters:
In contemporary Western society, we base our division of sexual categories on the axis of same versus other. Our primary division rests on the genders of the people involved… The ancient world, both Greek and Roman, did not base its classification on gender,...
June 13, 2012
Book Length Tweet Query
Have we (thankfully) lost our aversion to long novels? Does the new eBook trend make large sizes less daunting, or trend to 99¢ shorties?
— Gary Devore (@gmdevore) June 13, 2012
Asks the man who wrote a 728 page novel.
Filed under: Pantheon Tagged: pantheon, publishing
June 12, 2012
Video Inspiration (1)
I’m in the process of making some promotional videos to advertise my novel Pantheon. I’ve made and edited videos in the past, but I’m experimenting with some new techniques and methods. This means I’ve been looking around for some inspiration.
While mine will look nowhere as professional and polished (and expensive) as these, here are a few that have sparked my interest and what I like about them. Maybe they’ll inspire you to play around with some video as well.
Only the Horses by the Scissor S...
June 11, 2012
Pantheon Soundtrack: Demeter’s Aretalogy
Pantheon Soundtrack, track 8
“Mahalle” by Transcendental (from the Hamam soundtrack)
I fell in love with this song when I saw the fantastic film Hamam (Steam) and hunted down the soundtrack. It is now one of my favorite albums of all time.
An aretalogy is a specific type of poem from the ancient world that listed the attributes or accomplishments of a god or goddess. Usually these took the form of “I am” statements and were often used as hymns. Perhaps the most famous prosearetalogy is in the el...
June 8, 2012
June 6, 2012
Kickstarter Success!
Last month I got together a Kickstarter project to fund some publicity for my novel Pantheon. It ended yesterday and we were funded at 151%! This means we have the funds now to create a trailer for Pantheon and six 5-minute “webisodes” with a professional voice actor reading excerpts from the novel. They will be like mini audiobook recordings. When posted to YouTube etc., they will give potential readers an idea of what the book is like.
I have already been in contact with one of the professio...
May 31, 2012
Dionysus Stand-Alone?
I’m toying with a stand-alone eBook release of one of the chapters from Pantheon.
It would be free, or 99 cents if Amazon etc. require a price. Hopefully it would be a good way to publicize the novel and give folk a way to read a sample chapter.
Any thoughts or any authors who have tried something similar?
Filed under: Dionysus, Pantheon Tagged: dionysus, pantheon
Pantheon Soundtrack: Dionysus and the Couple
Pantheon Soundtrack, track 7
“Dancing Barefoot” by U2
In this context, the clever lyrics play the pronouns against the situation of a mixed-gender love triangle. I imagine Dionysus in the narrator’s position, and dancing barefoot and “strange music” driving him on is a nice allusion to an ancient Bacchic revel.
The guitar solo and the “oh God I feel for you” (in all its ironic literalness) accompanies the three as they roll around in the sheets in complete sexual abandon.
Filed under: Dionysus, P...
