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If you’ve never seen the book trailer for MARK OF THE THIEF, check it out on YouTube HERE.Īnd if you’ve never read it, look for it at your school or city library, or you can ask for the book as a gift this holiday season. I used to try to explain what it was, but that got too complicated so now I simply say, “It’s an ancient Roman artifact.” That usually gets a big response, and it’s much more fun than the longer explanation. The replication was so exact that one of the book’s cover artists became confused about which came first, the metal bulla that I owned, or the cover that he had created!įun fact #2: When I travel with the bulla, it sometimes gets flagged by security officers at the airport, so they have to do a visual inspection of it. And what if that bulla became lost after his death and remained lost for nearly three hundred years until it was discovered deep within the mines of Rome by a mining slave named Nicolas Calva?įun fact #1: After the cover was designed, my super amazing husband created a digital model of the bulla then had it 3D printed in metal.

All I did was to combine these two facts to ask, What if Caesar was telling the truth? If so, then perhaps he would have held the magic of the Gods, keeping it safe within his bulla.

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