The Matriarch Messiah | Ellwyn Autumn

About the Author

Maxime has been scribbling stories since grade school, from adventure epics to morality plays.

Blessed with living in multicultural pluralistic settings and having earned degrees in science and marketing, Maxime has worked in business and sports, traveling to countries across five continents and learning about cultures, traditions, and the importance of tolerance and understanding.

Maxime’s second novel, The Matriarch Messiah, was conceived, outlined, written, and edited in different locations in Belgium, including the Turkish and Kurdish neighborhoods of Brussels, in various islands of the Caribbean, in Colombia, in Madrid, Malaga, Mallorca, Spain, London, UK, and on the two coasts of the United States.

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How did you come up with the concept and characters for the book?

When conjuring up the legend of how monotheism might have been created at the world’s oldest temple, Göbekli Tepe, I originally planned a typical patriarchal lineage which passed down the faith created by these pre-Neolithic people in 10,000 BCE.

The book had the operating title “The Object”. My novel folders are still labeled “The Object I”, “The Object II”, and so forth.

But a trusted associate challenged me on the overused notion of patriarchy. The presumption of men creating religion discredited half the world’s population as usual.

Why not a matriarchy she asked me. And “The Matriarch” title and premise was born.

One will note that The Matriarch Matrix starts with Peter Gollinger’s story and how his grandfather passes down the legend of the black object he received from his grandfather and so forth.

That was a left over of the patriarchy storyline. The matriarchy story starts chapters later when the pre-Neolithic man, Orzu, saves Nanshe from the terrors of a malicious race of giants of the north.

Nanshe becomes the founding matriarch, for which Zara, who is introduced two chapters earlier, is a descendant.

In the patriarchy outline, Zara was supposed to be a minor character shuttling around Peter and Father Jean-Paul Sobiros to the ruins of Göbekli Tepe.

Once the storyline turned into a matriarchal one, Zara became a major character.

After my first copy edit draft, my beta readers named Zara as the strongest most compelling character in the book. Voila, Zara then took center stage. The last seventy percent of the book is very Zara centric.

Every story has to have a nemesis. Well, I just listened to an old RWA conference presentation which refuted this notion, but most readers are looking for a clear nemesis.

So, an evil incarnate all powerful, all invasive Russian oligarch was created. Alexander Murometz, the head of the MoxWorld empire. He is kind of a Darth Vader who actually has clever dialogue. You’ll find out why in The Matriarch Messiah.

In The Matriarch Messiah, a new secondary character had been scripted in the first draft. Rachel, an Israeli Torah historian and archeologist.

Think a feminine Jewish Indiana Jones. She was only supposed to be a minor nuisance in the way of Zara’s reluctantly proclaimed prophetess status promoted by Alexander Murometz, of course.

But the developmental editor hammered away in her comments how more needed about this new character.

And voila, Rachel shares center stage with Zara in The Matriarch Messiah as the legend of the blue cavern says: “Two women will fight for the light. One must die. For only in the death of life can one be in the chamber of the blue light.” Who will die? Who will save us all?

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