I began writing the Goddess Chronicles in response to the question, "What did people believe BEFORE the concept of God?". To find the answer I set out on a journey into mythology and earth based traditions, tracing the history of God. In most cultures around the world I found that before we had the notion of God as the supreme being, we worshiped a feminine form, a Mother Goddess. But as times changed and patriarchal societies grew, the feminine face was simply replaced by a masculine one. That part was easy to discover and made sense to me. The question that continued to challenge me was, "Why did we give the Divine a gender in the first place?" More digging and research brought me back to the mystical tradition and to a root philosophy of divinity as an eternal, universal experience that is both form (the body, the universe) and formlessness (invisible reality). And this form and formlessness appeared with two distinctive qualities that were then assigned to gender, male and female, which became our Gods and Goddesses. So, although the Goddess Chronicles are fantasy novels, love stories and re-invented myths, they are also a journey into what existed BEFORE. They are adventures into the mystic river that runs through all of the world's religions, the waters that existed BEFORE we put a face on eternity.