Susan Rowland, Author
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Susan Rowland, Author
- Jul 10
- 1 min
Feminine Heroism and Jungian Arts-Based Research
To know more about Jungian Arts-Based Research, my project on feminine heroism and mystery novels, and discuss your own projects, come...
Susan Rowland, Author
- Feb 22
- 1 min
Why Cozy Mysteries Find the Holy Grail!
Why do I write murder mysteries and why choose 'cozy' murder mysteries? The answer has to do with the quest for the holy grail and my...
Susan Rowland, Author
- Jan 18
- 1 min
Coming in February 2022: ancient Celts & twentyfirst century problems!
The Sacred Well Murders by Susan Rowland Mary Wandwalker, a novice detective, is hired to chaperone a young American, Rhiannon, to the...
Susan Rowland, Author
- Jan 10
- 1 min
Art and Creativity Online Course
Jung & Art: New Course wholly online at a time of your own choosing! Jung identified the common predicament of the artist (here standing...
Susan Rowland, Author
- Apr 14, 2020
- 3 min
Aphrodite in Detective Fiction!
While the erotic body can be an organ of knowing for the detective as we will see, the body is also the primal site of the mystery. In...
Susan Rowland, Author
- Mar 19, 2020
- 1 min
Pandemic is Alchemy
The pandemic is alchemy on a collective and individual scale. We can be part of curing ourselves and the world.
Susan Rowland, Author
- Mar 17, 2020
- 2 min
Pandemic: Our Choices, Our Creativity
Self-isolating is not Self Isolation
Susan Rowland, Author
- Mar 3, 2020
- 3 min
The Detective as Home-maker!
Hestia, goddess of hearth and home, might appear an unlikely divinity for the mystery’s quest for truth. In the Greek pantheon, Hestia is...
Susan Rowland, Author
- Jan 31, 2020
- 7 min
The Fictional Detective as Artemis
The stories and images clustering around the goddess Artemis or Diana, avatar of the moon, re-appear in the imaginative world of the...
Susan Rowland, Author
- Dec 31, 2019
- 2 min
New Year, Old Patterns, New Life!
Something feels stale about the New Year’s resolutions in this new decade: 2020. It think it is my history of failing to keep them! In...
Susan Rowland, Author
- Nov 22, 2019
- 2 min
Rave Review Last Christmas Movie for Mystery Writers
The Last Christmas (2019) movie has had poor reviews. So have many artistic works that become beloved. I loved this movie and think it...
Susan Rowland, Author
- Nov 18, 2019
- 2 min
Brexit and the Planet in Mysteries
Last week I found my first mention of Brexit in Alice Boatright’s What Child is This? An Ellie Kent mystery set at Christmas complete...
Susan Rowland, Author
- Oct 23, 2019
- 2 min
2.The Mystery of Novels; Words are Spells
So I am the apprentice, but there is still “Mystery Writer” and “spellbook” to pars. Where I am from (UK), “mystery” is less used to...
Susan Rowland, Author
- Sep 14, 2019
- 1 min
1. Can tongue-in-cheek work on the internet?
This is one of the experiments in my blog with the tongue firmly in the side of the mouth title. I am the Mystery Writer’s apprentice....