Find the hidden pomegranates

For no good reason am ridiculously pleased with my website.

For quite a while, I knew Esther Knight needed a proper home online. Somewhere for my books, Rebecca and John, and for all the research rabbit holes I disappear down (more posts in the blog are in the works).

So I contacted a few website designers. Then I saw what they charged, and decided I could learn to build a website. 😂

First, my trusty team at GetCovers.Com helped me design my branding and my logo. Once those were in place, building the site felt much less daunting. Author websites, after all, are not that complicated (she says after dragging her feet for months!)

Anyway, I did it, and I'm rather proud of the result.

I've hidden a pomegranate somewhere on it. A tiny, medieval-style pomegranate is tucked away on one of the pages in this website.

Why a pomegranate?

Apart from being a fruit you’ll find all over Spain, pomegranates have a special meaning in Jewish tradition.

Their abundance of seeds has long been associated with mitzvot—commandments and good deeds. There’s a popular tradition that a pomegranate has 613 seeds, one for each of the Torah’s commandments (It doesn’t).

In Blood in the Parchment, Leah is illustrating a Haggadah for Rebecca when she suggests a little artistic improvement:

“See how the letters float? They need grounding. Maybe a border of pomegranates?”

Leah’s dark eyes sparkled with artistic fervor.

Rebecca nodded without really looking. She, too, felt ungrounded, her thoughts circling back to yesterday’s meeting with Yaacov—his tears, her cold refusal.

“Whatever you decide,” she told Leah, who was waiting for a reply.

So now there's a pomegranate hiding in my online world, too.

Can you find it?

Have a wander around, and when you spot it, reply to this email and tell me which page it's hiding on.

And while you're there, I'd genuinely love to know what you think of the website. I built this one myself, but ultimately it's meant for readers like you. If something particularly catches your eye—or if there's something you'd like to see there—tell me.

Happy hunting!