By s. B. HORGAN
Gods We Are
A novel in production…
Gods We Are tells the myth of the Minotaur, monster of labyrinth fame, and his encounter with Theseus, son of a god. But Gods We Are is really the story of a boy no one has ever heard of, a minor character in the Cretan drama, who risks becoming a victim to the bloodthirsty Minotaur. Glaukos is a prince and the heir to the Cretan throne, but the aloof and naive boy misses the hints that should signal the dreadful future he faces: his mother’s sexual morays, his father’s masked indifference, and a cultural movement towards the patron god of the island, who demands human flesh. Gods We Are is the story of a child in a world of gods, heroes, and monsters, wondering which the Fates will make him.
By s. b. HORGAN
A Medieval Tale…Title TBD
A (second!) novel in production…
In my file I call this book “Vikings,” which is the catchy element, but the book is about so much more than that. It began with a desire to retell the Wife of Bath’s story from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Her version of the “loathly lady” folk story has a blatant feminist, but also a confusingly not-so-feminist, spin. I wanted to write the story of the masochistic warrior and the ugly-turned-beautiful woman in a medieval setting, as if it were the original story, a story that could have been passed down over generations and warped by word of mouth until it finally came to the Wife of Bath. I am also attempting to give it a theme that’s clearer and more charitable to the dignity of both sexes, outlining the sins and failures of both main characters, as well as the possibilities for redemption. It’s a medieval story about Vikings, monasteries, love, self-worth, and identity-formation in times of adversity.
