And we have a drawing winner! Ashoka has won a newly released paperback of Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris. Thanks to everyone who weighed in with their favorite cover choices. The French version was the hands down winner. Ashoka I will be emailing you for your address so I can send you the prize.

And speaking of staffs, I get asked a lot about how much of the Egyptian lore and magic in the books is real and how much is made up. While the idea of an actual staff that belonged to Osiris was a construct of mine, the idea that Osiris once lived and walked the earth was not, nor was the idea of magical staffs. The staff was a symbol of authority used by both the pharaohs and Egyptian priests. I thought you might enjoy seeing a picture of the real Egyptian staff that was the creative spark around which the Staff of Osiris was built. Here is a picture of an actual staff taken from a tomb under the Ramesseum in Thebes.

It was found tangled with a mass of hair! Isn’t that especially creepy!

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