Megaera Lorenz

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Egyptologist and author. She/they. Authors Against Book Bans Illinois Chapter Leader. Debut novel THE SHABTI (2024) available now wherever books are sold.

Photo of me holding This Mortal Coil by Jasmine Walls and Marie Enger
Photo of me with my Belgian Tervuren, Max.
Famous vintage Michelin tire ad with a horrifying Michelin man raising a cup of broken glass with the toast “Nunc est bibendum.” Two other deflated tire men look on with expressions of quiet defeat.
Poster for the film Local Area Network featuring actors Michael Farca and Jeff A. Smith
Graphic advertising a book signing of The Shabti by Megaera C. Lorenz at the ALA expo in Chicago with Marble Books. Shows the cover of The Shabti, my headshot, and a couple of blurbs. The event is June 27th at 3:30 pm in booth #2136
Relief from Dendera depicting Isis as a kite having sex with the body of Osiris.
Detail of the Third Intermediate Period papyrus of Tameni (now in the British Museum) showing the earth god Geb with an impressively large erection trying fruitlessly to connect with the sky goddess Nut, who arches over him.
Relief of the god Min in his ithyphallic form from Karnak temple. He's standing in front of an offering table with one arm raised. He has a prominent erection and is wearing a feathered headdress and false beard. He balances a flail on his upraised hand. His other arm is not visible, but 3D representations show that in this pose it is actually tucked in at his side, with his left hand holding the peen.
Screenshot of the two common phallus signs in Gardiner's sign list, with examples of words in which they appear.
Photo of a statuette from the Brooklyn Museum of a guy with a dick longer than his own body. A woman is seated on one end of it playing a harp.
Screenshot of a WIP of Hermann and Dashiel digitally painted in pulp cover style. Hermann looks off and I feel like my brain cells are actively dying every time I try to fix it. My reach exceeds my grasp, I have Procreated too close to the sun.
Detail from a WIP digital painting of Dashiel and Hermann from The Shabti. Hermann has a horrifying CalArts smile and anime blush lines because I cannot draw this man’s goddamn mouth if my life depended on it.
Very unfinished detail of a digital painting of Dashiel from The Shabti in a pulp cover style. He’s looking terrified and reaching out for something, bathed from slightly below in yellowish light.
Cover design by Daniel Cantada for The Shabti, featuring an Egyptian shabti figurine casting the shadow of a man with a cane and top hat. The figures are black against a bright yellow background. The title is written diagonally in white letters, in a font reminiscent of old horror movie posters.
Photo of me holding a copy of The Shabti against a convention hall backdrop. The text says “Come meet me at the ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago! I’ll be there Saturday, June 27th, at Booth #2136 with my publisher, Marble Press (exact time TBA). Stop by to say hello and get a signed copy of The Shabti!”
Digital painting of a young black cat in an abstractly rendered fabric tunnel. The background is in shades of blue, purple, and magenta.
Color drawing of a calico and a Siamese
A colorful Louis Wain illustration of several cats in fashionable Edwardian attire, entitled “My Friend the Prince.”
Another Procreate time-lapse video showing me adding color to a drawing of two cats
Procreate time lapse video showing my process of drawing a greyscale scrungly cat portrait of two cats.
A digital drawing, in color, of two cats snuggling on a blanket. One is a dilute calico, and the other is a dark brown Siamese.
Greyscale drawing of two cats, a dilute calico and a dark Siamese, snuggling on a blanket.
Graphic with three drawings. Two are quick black and white sketches of cats, and the other is a more carefully done color drawing of a dog. The text says “Quick ‘n scrungly pet portrait - $25. Less scrungly - $50. DM me to enquire!”
Ballpoint pen drawing of a young woman with short, wavy hair wearing a newsboy cap. The drawing is on a piece of junk mail. Part of a handwritten grocery list is visible to the right.
Some kind of bony creepypasta nightmare creature with a star-shaped head stands with his back to the viewer and looms over a little cartoony goober in a suit and top hat, casting an ominous shadow.
Photo of me in a white button-up shirt wearing a red paisley bow tie and matching suspenders.
Slide 1: a blue graphic with an outline of the United States. Red and white text reads: Call. National Book Banning Bill Proposed in US House of Reps. Tell your rep: Vote no on H.R. 7661.
Another cartoon panel showing the bus driver standing in the doorway of the bus, conversing with the child’s mother, who is covering her face with her hands. “…So I figure it musta been a pretty rough day at school,” the driver is saying. The mother replies, “I’ll talk to him.”
Cartoon panel of a small child in a winter cap and coat kicking the seat in front of him on a school bus. He looks angry. A child across the aisle watches with concern.
Photo of me showing off dyed, dark copper hair.
Photo of me showing off dyed coppery reddish hair.
Cartoon of Frog and Toad from the Frog and Toad books. Frog is dancing with a cane and straw boater hat while Toad sits in the background looking smitten. Frog sings a line from A Year with Frog and Toad: “I’d like to sing an ode about my good friend Toad, Toad, with whom I frequently take tea…”
Photo of me sitting on a couch in the Charlie Chaplin room at Club Arcada, wearing red lipstick, a red velvet dress and black boots, cheesing at the camera. There’s a fancy cocktail on the fancy table in front of me.
Graphic showing Hermann and Dashiel from The Shabti embracing, surrounded by tendrils of smoke in the shape of a heart emerging from a tiny shabti figure. The cover of The Shabti is at bottom left. There are pressed flowers around the outside of the drawing. At the top of the image it says "Have an unsettling happy Valentine's Day" with "unsettling" crossed out.
Graphic of The Shabti book cover in front of an image of a man's hand pouring brandy from a decanter. Scraps of paper arranged around the image have the words "Kobo," "Bookshop.org," and "Libro.fm" printed on them.
Drawing of a black boot stepping on the arm of Liberty, who holds her extinguished torch. The words “I lift my lamp beside the golden door” are crossed out in red paint.
Vividly colored pseudo-‘70s style illustration of a cartoony man in a blue suit, straw hat, and yellow gloves and bow tie walking down a set of rainbow stairs, holding a cane. He’s surrounded by clouds, rainbows, and sunshine. He looks cheerful and pleased with himself. “Mr. Blue Sky” is written in the bottom right corner in big, blue, hand lettered text.
A character with brown hair holds a first aid kit and puts a bandaid on the bruised and battered bow tie guy’s face
A cartoon of a little guy in a red bow tie sitting atop an Ionic column, looking worried
Drawing of a plump little tabby cat dressed like an Edwardian lady, holding a fancy teacup in one paw and a switchblade in the other.
Photo of a jug of Cranberry Strawberry juice cocktail. The label says it contains “another juice from concentrate”
A 6-panel comic. Panel 1: A woman stands at the stove cooking. There’s a glass on the counter labeled “eggnog + brandy.” A child peeks in from the side of the frame. Panel 2: The child reaches for the glass with a mischievous expression, saying, “Hey Mom, is this yours?” Panel 3: Child hovers menacingly over the drink. Mom, with a hand on her hip, says, “Yes it is, and you shouldn’t drink it bec—“ Panel 4: Child has picked up the drink and is staring at it in disgust, saying “Gack!” Mom looks puzzled. Panel 5: Child violently hurls the contents of the glass into the sink with an expression of furious determination. Mom looks on in horror and surprise. Panel 6: Mom, looking utterly devastated, says “Bruh my eggnog WTF” Child shrugs apologetically and says, “It looked like spoiled milk! I’m sorry?”
Drawing of Mr. Tenna from Deltarune looking concerned and mildly disgusted as he holds up Spamton by the back of his jacket.
Digital drawing of Rouxls Kaard from Deltarune, from the chest up.
My hand holding a pair of air dry clay sculptures of Spamton G Spamton from Deltarune, along with a pipis.
Quick pencil sketch of the incredibly floofy cat on the right. It is basically a hairy rectangle with a head, paws, and tail.
Overexposed, terrifying, close-up shot of my tortoiseshell staring down at me.
Digital drawing by my daughter of a furry little dark grey creature in yellow shoes and a red bow tie, bowing and tipping his top hat. He is winking, and his open eye is blue.
A fuzzy, Dr. Seuss-esque creature in yellow shoes and a red bow tie taking a bow, doffing a top hat.
Colorful digital drawing of a character with a yellow puzzle piece for a head, named Mr. Jigsaw. He’s wearing a red bow tie, a loud puzzle-patterned shirt, and brown pants with a subtle puzzle print.
Screencap of a Google AI overview for the search “trout personality”: ”Trout have distinct personalities, often described as shy or bold, and also fall along a spectrum of being "stayers" or "movers," though their behavior can adapt to environmental changes. These individual traits, such as aggression, reaction to new objects, and exploration, vary between Show more”
Closeup of a very wall-eyed water buffalo sculpture. His mouth is open, displaying far too many teeth)
Garden of the Moulin Rouge with a giant elephant looming in the background.
Photo from the late 1800s showing a gigantic elephant statue in the garden of the Moulin Rouge
Photo of the Elephantine Colossus, a massive elephant-shaped building, on Coney Island. It’s surrounded by a roller coaster.
Black and white photo of me in an over the top Norma Desmond getup.
Photo of a tabby cat with a white chest cheerfully biting my hand. All his big dumb whiskers are fully angled forward and there is an expression of unhinged glee in his eyes.
Unfinished black and white digital drawing of a 1930s-style witch on a broom with an enthusiastic skeleton riding behind her. An annoyed cat clings to the front end of the broom for dear life.
Cartoon of a fluffy black cat with big, dilated yellow eyes and a vacant stare, wearing a red collar and doing a small blep.