Susan Rowland, Author Feb 231 minWhy 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 181 minComing 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 101 minArt and Creativity Online CourseJung & 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, 20203 minAphrodite 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, 20201 minPandemic is AlchemyThe pandemic is alchemy on a collective and individual scale. We can be part of curing ourselves and the world.
Susan Rowland, Author Mar 17, 20202 minPandemic: Our Choices, Our CreativitySelf-isolating is not Self Isolation
Susan Rowland, Author Mar 3, 20203 minThe 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, 20207 minThe Fictional Detective as ArtemisThe 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, 20192 minNew 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, 20192 minRave Review Last Christmas Movie for Mystery WritersThe 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, 20192 minBrexit and the Planet in MysteriesLast 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, 20192 min2.The Mystery of Novels; Words are SpellsSo 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, 20191 min1. 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....