Hello and Welcome!

Opening lines are supposed to be interesting and eye-catching.

Ours wasn’t particularly impressive, but apparently you were willing to look past it, since you’re already reading the second sentence, so thanks for that.

On that note, hello there! We’re delighted to meet you!

Since you’re here, we are going to assume that you either found the link on our profiles on deviantart (here and here) or that you’ve searched ‘Eros and Psyche’ on the internet. Unless someone told you about it, which is even more amazing! The point is, anyway you’ve found us, we’re glad you did.

Now, allow us to introduce ourselves and explain what it is we are doing.

We are Myrto and Eirini, Eirini and Myrto, and we are writing/illustrating a book –a comic-ish one, both in Greek and English. It’s going to be an adaptation of the myth of Eros and Psyche, with a bit of a twist thrown in for good measure, and in this blog we’ll be attempting to give you an insight to the whole process until we finally reach the point of calling it finished.

Good manners require that I introduce myself last, so let me introduce you to Eirini first, the girl responsible for the visual part of the entire project. She’s 26, an archaeologist and a history freak (her words, not mine). She’s an amazing artist as it is, but she’s currently taking some courses too, because she wants to take those insane skills of hers to a whole new level (and because she’s a bit shy and modest about said skills, please let me tell you that she almost threw a fit when she first read the draft –and yes, I am teasing).

As for me, I am Myrto, I am 30 years old, I am a librarian and I love researching and learning new things (call it professional perversion). I am also an amateur photographer and aspiring author, so, as you might have guessed, I am doing the writing part of the deal. I will also be doing most of the writing on this blog, unless of course we can convince Eirini to contribute too.

We've met through deviantart a little over two years ago (although it definitely feels like we’ve known each other longer than that). I loved Eirini’s stuff, so at some point I commented on one piece of hers, we started talking and, to make a long story short, we slipped into friendship and collaboration.

Our way of perceiving things is quite similar, and that’s probably what makes working with each other so easy and fun. It’s very comforting knowing you’re working with someone who knows exactly what you are talking about, gets your quirks and is excited to listen to each and every one of your crazy ideas.

So, one could say this entire project is the end result of a crazy idea taken too far. :p

Stick around, because that’s what we are talking next; how we got started.