Award-Winning LGBT Graphic Novel Miniseries Continues With New Release

What happens to a girl with a stolen destiny on her journey to Lesbos? The House of the Muses is a powerful miniseries that explores one possibility behind the 2,500-year-old poems of Sappho.

Pam Harrison is the creator, author, and illustrator of the ground-breaking LGBT miniseries that illuminates the latter days of Sappho of Lesbos for the first time ever in a Teen+ format. With House of the Muses #5: House of Many Kings, Harrison is welcoming the arrival of the fifth book in her nine-issue series. The latest book will launch on IndyPlanet.com for $6.50 on January 15, and will shortly be available for order to comic shops through ComicsMonkey.com.

In House of the Muses #5, an unexpected guest makes a visit to the House of the Muses. Gorgo of the House of Penthilos tells Sappho that she has opened a school for girls of her own in the city of Mytilene, with Andromeda, the daughter of Pittakos, as headmistress. Sappho tries not to appear upset by the news and it seems to anger Gorgo. The woman tells Sappho to remember that her reputation is fragile, and how interesting would it be if the people of Mytilene were reminded of her part in the assassination of the tyrant Myrsilos so many years ago. Sappho orders Gorgo to leave, but the damage has already been done. Dika later convinces Sappho to talk about the past, and readers learn things about the Poetess of Mytilene that they didn’t know.

Awarded the 2008 Prism Comics Queer Press Grant Award in March, 2009, The House of the Muses is a critically acclaimed series that examines universal themes deeply linked to the human condition. House of the Muses has gained an online following that crosses the barriers of sexual orientation and cuts to the quick of significant questions that mystify the human heart.

Pam Harrison is an award winning graphic novelist with more than twenty years experience in the industry. Pam was born in Hammond, Indiana and studied Fine Arts at Western Kentucky University. The idea for House of the Muses was conceived during her college career.

Learn more about the series at http://houseofthemuses.com/graphicnovel. (The third, fourth and fifth books in the series will soon be followed by their popular paperback version for $19.95 through Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com, both domestic and international.)