J.M. Lane is an Amazon #1 bestselling and award-winning Irish author, best known for The Things We Kept and Setanta and the Lady by the Water: The Raven Chronicles Book 1.
Originally from Ennis, Co. Clare on Ireland’s west coast, Lane moved to Sligo at nineteen to work as an artist. Before turning to writing full time, he worked in many fields including art, social care, digital design, policing, and even chimney sweeping.
In 2024, after a cancer diagnosis, he decided his dream of writing could wait no longer. That leap of faith led to the creation of The Raven Chronicles and to Setanta and the Lady by the Water receiving the Five Star Award from the Open Book Awards.
J.M. Lane has since become a bestselling author in both Ireland and the United States, writing stories that blend Irish myth, family, and the quiet magic of ordinary life. He continues to write from the northwest of Ireland, where Atlantic winds and old legends guide his words each day.
J.M. Lane is an Amazon #1 bestselling and award-winning Irish author, best known for The Things We Kept and Setanta and the Lady by the Water: The Raven Chronicles Book 1.
Originally from Ennis, Co. Clare on Ireland’s west coast, Lane moved to Sligo at nineteen to work as an artist. Before turning to writing full time, he worked in many fields including art, social care, digital design, policing, and even chimney sweeping.
A boy of two worlds. A famine that walks. A demon that never died.
Setanta never asked to be the son of legends. His mother is the Morrígan, goddess of battle and fate. His father is Cú Chulainn, the Hound of Ulster. But when famine spreads across Ireland and the dead rise as hollow, briar-filled husks, destiny will no longer wait.
Setanta and the Lady by the Water A mythic coming-of-age novella rooted in Irish folklore and shadowed grief.
Setanta knows only this: his mother vanished, his father is a ghost of a man, and something ancient is following them. From haunted towns to forgotten hills, they chase the Lady by the Water, a banshee whose song marks the doomed. But when...
Margaret Greene is thirty-eight, exhausted, and tired of scrubbing other people’s messes especially the ones her husband leaves behind. Her marriage has turned into a quiet war fought over dinners, dishes, and half-finished sentences. Faith used to comfort her, but now even her prayers sound like complaints. Then one evening, while cleaning,...
