Copy editor manuscript vetted. 100% score after Prowritingaid audit. Ready for the proofreader tonight. Book cover designed almost done. Formatters who did The Matriarch Matrix and The Matriarch Messiah on standby. Yay!
Target launch date: Early July.
Here’s the Preface for this next edition in The Mystery of the Matriarchs series:
What is love? The eternal question posed by the most ancient of mythic divinities upon The Matriarch Mission’s intrepid heroine, Oksana Mangupli.
I created The Matriarch Mission as the entrée point into The Mystery of Matriarchs series, which is enveloped in complex world-building straddling actual history with speculative fiction. In the European literary fiction tradition I have been schooled in, the multiple award-winning books in this series involve multiple plot lines, multiple timelines, nonlinear chapters. Thus, a new reader into the series could use an easier-to-assimilate primer into this world reflecting complex patterns often found in mythic European literary fiction.
In contrast, this book is one linear plotline. The narrator is Oksana, who at the very first sentence is a thirteen-year-old Krymchak girl thrown into a mystical, divine world she had never been prepared for. You will learn the mysteries of the matriarchs in real time with her as she works her brain, her heart, her soul to solve what she has been seemingly impossibly tasked by ancient mythic figures to achieve.
In this opening book of the series, you will find meticulously researched history. The gulags, the famines, the Krymchak communities which were nearly erased from existence, the Romanovs in exile, Barchenko’s polar and Crimean expeditions, Bokii’s occult mission within Soviet intelligence, all are documented events. The search for the divine feminine that transcends all the books in this series is an equally meticulous mythology created to drive the reader’s search for the truth of gender, power, faith, and love.
The mythologies, the ancient histories, the origin stories of The Mystery of Matriarchs series will all be revealed through the eyes of this young girl who will grow up in front of your eyes. Her maturation will ultimately lead her to answer the mystical question posed from early in this book. What is love?
And how she answers that question will surprise us all.
