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“Women of the Plains” is now released!

Today, my second full-length novel Women of the Plains has been published and is available in paperback and e-book format!

Set in eastern Africa 100,000 years ago, Women of the Plains tells the story of a confrontation between two cultures of early Homo sapiens, the ancestors of all modern human beings. When the young huntress Oja gets separated from her nomadic band after a hunting accident, she finds herself in a strange place where the people have settled into permanent villages. As she struggles to find her place in this new world, her old friends Uru and Namak go looking for her. Oja must eventually choose between the way of life she has always known and that of the people who have embraced her as one of their own.

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I got cited in an academic paper once

There are few experiences more heartwarming to an artist like me than finding out that your work has made an impact on people. One of them, a scholar by the name of Marta Garcia Morcillo, even cited my work in an academic paper published in the book Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women in the Ancient World.

“The graphic artist Brandon S. Pilcher…has created a series of illustrations of famous ancient African women that address post-colonial deconstructions of Western classicism. These colorful black-African characters include Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, Cleopatra VII, Hypathia and Sophonisba.”

— Garcia Morcillo, M. (2020). “Exotic, Erotic, Heroic? Women of Carthage in Western Imagination”. In F. Carlà-Uhink, & A. Wieber (Eds.), Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World (pp. 134-158). Bloomsbury.

You can read the full text of the paper here. It’s only a brief mention toward the end, but I love how she characterized my work as “addressing post-colonial deconstructions of Western classicism” nonetheless.