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We’re back! I got all these pages ready on Feb. 4th so I could get to the rest of the subplot storyline…as promised I’m going back to my pencils for some of these pages. I’m experimenting with a new style so this should look different. We’ll see.
Dika’s time is drawing nearer to the impending birth, and worry about what this means for her life is never far from her mind. She’s thinking about her own place in the world, and wondering what Gorgo is going to do next.
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Oh…heh…one last freaking teaser. Gorgo is going off on Sappho, but why is in the book. It’s at the printer’s now, and will be available soon. Meantime, you can advance purchase autographed copies until they go onsale at IndyPlanet.com.
This is the beginning of the legendary smear campaign by Andromeda and Gorgo to destroy Sappho. Many of the accusations they made against the poetess were incriminating by any standard, and the citizens of Mytilene had a lot to speculate about. What, after all this time, is handed down as truth, and what is actually lies? Stay tuned, and you’ll find out. See you in two weeks.
Last teaser. Sappho’s stance in the panel…says it all. Her past is come back to haunt her. 
This thing is off to print at Ka-Blam.com, and should be on sale shortly. Moving after the Christmas holidays was hard on us, and there’s been so much more to do on my end. I previewed this panel on Twitter yesterday and the approval was unanimous.
Big excitement from a lot of my fans, as I’m wrapping up #5 and on my way to #6. The next four books will be really dramatic…then it’s a wrap. Some were asking if there would be more stories after House of the Muses wraps up. You have NO idea how many old stories and manuscripts I found while we were moving over the holidays…..there will be more. In the meantime, we’re just getting started! Next time you see me will be the premiere of House of the Muses #6 – Last Child of Herakles!
This concludes the online version of House of the Muses #5. For those of you who weren’t sure who the sinister new villainess is, here’s a line or two from good old Wikipedia:
Eris (Greek Ἔρις, “Strife”) is the Greek goddess of strife, her name being translated into Latin as Discordia. Her Greek opposite is Harmonia, whose Latin counterpart is Concordia. Homer equated her with the war-goddess Enyo, whose Roman counterpart is Bellona. Eris, the solar system’s largest known dwarf planet, is named after the goddess.
The most famous tale of Eris (which Dika, being a huge fan of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey can tell you) recounts her initiating the Trojan War. The goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite had been invited along with the rest of Olympus to the forced wedding of Peleus and Thetis, who would become the parents of Achilles, but Eris had been snubbed because of her troublemaking inclinations.
She therefore (in a fragment from the Kypria as part of a plan hatched by Zeus and Themis) tossed into the party the Apple of Discord, a golden apple inscribed Kallisti – “For the most beautiful one”, or “To the Fairest One” – provoking the goddesses to begin quarreling about the appropriate recipient. The hapless Paris, Prince of Troy, was appointed to select the most beautiful by Zeus. Each of the three goddesses immediately attempted to bribe Paris to choose her. Hera offered political power; Athena promised skill in battle; and Aphrodite tempted him with the most beautiful woman in the world: Helen, wife of Menelaus of Sparta. While Greek culture placed a greater emphasis on prowess and power, Paris chose to award the apple to Aphrodite, thereby dooming his city, which was destroyed in the war that ensued.
Oops. She’s HERE? Oh, crap, we’re not in Kansas anymore. Don’t forget–hopefully by February we debut House of the Muses #6: The Last Child of Herakles! DON’T MISS IT!!!
Issue wrap-up: Before Dika can even begin to puzzle over what has just happened, new weirdness pops up: so many of us can attest to incidents where it seems divine intervention has occurred, but in this case, it doesn’t look at all good….
Well, of course Isthia and the girls are nosy and want to know what’s going on at the temple. But then it starts to turn ugly, and only Dika has the benefit of those fever dreams she went through in House of the Muses #3. But Sappho has no clue what’s about to hit her.
Gorgo reveals her reason for visiting, and when Sappho recognizes Andromeda’s name, she gets the sinking feeling that the events of her wayward past have come full circle to catch up to her.
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