My name is Mary Trepanier, and I wrote The Queen of Heaven’s Daughter. It’s the first of a septet—seven books, in a series called Tales of the End Times.
Queen is the story of two crazy college kids who fall in love. One of them is a prostitute pursued by the goddess Inanna to become a sacred whore, and the other is an engineering student in way over his head. Joanie, my sacred whore–girl, also falls for Cleo, an initiate of Inanna. Behind the scenes is a genderfluid incubus-succubus, Puabi-Ekur, who loved Joanie in a past life and wants to help her. The djinn come in with their own agenda.
Now I’m at work on the second book, about halfway through the first draft. Joanie shows up in it again. Puabi-Ekur remains behind the scenes, a little too behind the scenes right now; they need to step up! I’ll pull them out of the woodwork pretty soon.
I’m writing in the present time for a change, or roughly. Before Queen, I wrote mostly high fantasy and historical fantasy, and vampire erotica set in its own world. Now I’m dealing with our particular dark timeline, in the here and now.
I am a witch, and this writing is in part a conjuring. I’m writing to follow one of the last dicta of Ursula K. LeGuin, who is a hero of mine. She wanted fantasy and science fiction writers to imagine a positive future. In Tales, I want to call positive change into the world.