Sun 5 Jun 2011
Maria Dahvana Headley reads and signs “Queen of Kings”
Posted by Marlow Harris under Books , ReadingsNo Comments
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Seattle author Maria Dahvana Headley will be reading and signing Queen of Kings at Seattle’s University bookstore on Tuesday, June 7th, from 7-10pm. She promises a party and says there’ll be Egyptian snacks from Golden Beetle and mummified milk and honey from the tombs of pharaohs and kings (well, maybe.)
Here’s the UW Bookstore listing:
Of this debut novel by the Seattle author of The Year of Yes, no less than fantasy superstar Neal Gaiman says: “It’s rare that a first novel is so magical, so dark, so well-researched, so smart or so compelling. Queen of Kings is a powerful work of the imagination, stalking the murky, dangerous territory between Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned and Robert Graves’ I, Claudius and should appeal to those who like their historical fiction and those who crave dark magics and sharp teeth in the night.” It’s the epic story of a Cleopatra who, distraught over the loss of her beloved Antony, makes a dark pact with a goddess to bring back her love.
