01/30/2025
I'm excited that my independently published poetic prose prelude/first chapter of my historical novel, "The Oracle of Delphi: That Which is Hidden" (by Elyse DeBarre, my penname), has been admitted to the online shelves of the Vancouver Public Library in Canada, and I hope the full novel will soon be found there as well. This is book 1 of a historical espionage mystery series. I first wrote the independent poetic prose short story when I was 17 in first year university for a class in which we were to write a narrative with a twist, and my professor praised it saying he'd been unable to guess the truth until the last line.
When I was going over the story last year to publish it, the idea came to my mind to write a novel continuing the events of the narrative. This soon transformed into my quadrilogy, Priests and Magi. I'm a classical archaeologist, and at that time I was beginning the first year of my first degree in classical archaeology, and had just been living in Greece and had explored ancient Delphi including the area under the Temple of Apollo seldom discovered by visitors: one area where the oracle received her politically influential visions. https://libbyapp.com/search/vpl/search/query-Elizabeth%20Legge/page-1/10442486
