rebecca lochlann

Rebecca Lochlann fell in love with the stories and myths of the ancient Greeks and wrote her first story at a very early age, due in part to the children’s book, D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths. She has continued to polish and hone her craft ever since, alongside education, work, marriage, and child rearing. She has owned and operated a successful writing/editing company, helping authors prepare their work for publication, and has earned a living in various occupations–as a freelance writer, providing hundreds of articles on demand for marketing use and teaching seminars, and, for ten years, as a bookseller. Now, she has joined with Erinyes Press to publish and distribute The Child of the Erinyes series, mythic fiction that begins in the Bronze Age and winds up in the near future.

Writing Influences? Patricia A. McKillip, Margaret Atwood, Anita Diamant, Peter S. Beagle, Anne Rice, and Yevgeny Zamyatin, to name a few.

The seeds of The Child of the Erinyes series were planted in the seventies, after reading Moon, Moon, by Anne Kent Rush, and Dawn of the Gods, by Jacquetta Hawkes. Rebecca spent two months in Scotland in the early eighties, researching the history and setting of what would become the fourth book. About fifteen years altogether were spent researching just the Bronze Age segments of the series, and encompassed rare historical documents, mythology, archaeology, ancient writing, ancient religions, and vulcanology. For Rebecca, a rather obsessed historian,  the research, the struggle for perfection, never ends.

The Year-god’s Daughter is her first novel, and Book One of The Child of the Erinyes Series.

The series continues to burgeon as she splits her large books into manageable installments. Currently, The Year-god’s Daughter precedes The Thinara King, which is followed by In the Moon of Asterion. This completes the Bronze Age segment. Then comes The Sixth Labyrinth, the Scots segment, which may well grow into its own trilogy. When the Moon Whispers and Swimming in the Rainbow finalize the series, which spans nearly 4000 years and mirrors the Maiden, Mother, Crone trinity of the ancient world.

The Year-god’s Daughter made its worldwide debut in November, 2011. In May, 2012, The Thinara King followed, and is available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. All of Rebecca’s books will be published in paperback and digital forms.

Though she cannot remember actually living in the Bronze Age, the Middle Ages, the Victorian era, and so on, she believes in the ability to find a way through the labyrinth of time, and that deities will sometimes speak to us in dreams and visions, gently prompting us to tell their forgotten stories.

Who knows? It could make a difference.

For my Goodreads profile, click here.

Rebecca has another website at Wix, but the site is flash-based, which means some people can’t access it. If you would like to visit the Wix website, click here.

Book Trailer for The Year-god’s Daughter  (1:49) at YouTube: click here.

Rebecca’s Facebook Book Page: click here.

Blogger pages that offer reading excerpts: click here.

The main purpose of this website is to share some of the interesting source material that appears in these stories, and specifically a few of the historical nuggets of gold unearthed during Rebecca’s twenty year research journey. Hopefully, it will provide answers to possible questions that might arise.

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Both The Year-god’s Daughter, Book One of The Child of the Erinyes Series, and The Thinara King, Book Two, are now available, in both digital and paperback forms. Click on the page ‘Links to Purchase” for ordering info.