I need your help brainstorming books, movies, and songs with overt elements of Greek Mythology in them! I’ll be giving away the winner’s choice of either a $10 Amazon.com gift certificate or SHADOWHEART, Laura Kinsale’s fabulous fantasy with romantic elements.

To win the contest, you just have to post here on my blog with one unique book, movie, or song featuring Greek Mythology. For example, you might post: The Percy Jackson & The Olympians Movie or maybe Suzanne Vega’s Calypso song. (Except you can’t use either of those because I said them first.)

As long as nobody has posted your book, movie, or film before you did, I’ll enter you in a drawing to win. In fact, I’ll give you one raffle ticket per book, film, or song that you post. And because I need lots and lots of ideas, I’m going to be running this contest for two months with two separate drawings. So you have double the chance to win.

(Note: By entering the contest, you agree to let Stephanie Draven use your name on this website and her blog if you win. Your email address will never be sold or transferred to any third party. Stephanie might, however, contact you with the very occasional update on her writing and career. At your request, however, you’ll be promptly deleted from her mailing list.)

Oh swoon! You know that HBO’s Rome was my very favorite series evah! And I never doubted for a minute that a guy like Kevin McKidd was a minor sex god of some sort, but as it turns out, he’s switching from the Latin team to the Hellenes.

He’s signed on to play Poseidon in the forthcoming Percy Jackson and the Olympians movie, and this gives me even bigger incentive to be excited about this movie. It’s a kid’s film, but I assure you, some part of me will only be going to see Kevin McKidd’s big shiny trident…

KATHY KOZAKEWICH of Books, books, books… and, from time to time, a little RL wrote:

What a fantastic story! There are definitely boundaries never before crossed in a Harlequin based romance, but Stephanie Draven’s myth-creation demands it. Very well done and a story that thrilled at the same time broke my heart.
I love the way that Stephanie combines ancient mythology with contemporary elements and creates an entire new universe. Her characters are strong, but hurting. In fact Nick Leandros hurts so much he’s no longer whole.
I was fortunate enough to win her contest and receive a free copy of this story; of course having liked it so much I’ve already purchased another of her Nocturne Bites ~ Midnight Medusa.
This story rated 4.5 hearts.

I like to think that this is going to be a good year for Greek Myth inspired fiction. In addition to my two Nocturne Bites, MIDNIGHT MEDUSA (a retelling of the gorgon myth) and WILD, TETHERED, BOUND (a new way to look at ancient dryads and chimeras), I have two forthcoming Myth-inspired novels and to top it off, they’re re-making Clash of the Titans!

Perseus was never really my favorite Greek hero. He seemed to get a lot more divine help than he really deserved and I always had a soft-spot for Medusa. But how can I pass up rooting for an update of this classic? According to an early script review, the creatures that appear in the film include “Sylphs, Lotophagi, Strix, Minotaurs, Centaurs, Nephilim, Giant Scorpions, Anubite Jackals, Hyena Men, and Pegassi.”

I know what you’re thinking. This has the potential to be a giant box-office disaster. But apparently Liam Neeson has signed onto the project and despite the Star Wars debacle that was Episode One, he rarely picks a bad script. I, for one, am totally looking forward to seeing what kind of travesty they make of ancient legend.