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Because Families can be murder!
Susan Rowland’s fictional detective Mary Wandwalker is back. Murder on Family Grounds: A Mary Wandwalker Mystery, goes back to the origin...
Susan Rowland, Author
Mar 9, 20242 min read
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New Release Alert: Mary Wandwalker 3 - Murder on Family Grounds Available March 1st, 2024
Who is killing off members of the Falconer family and why? Such is the challenge confronting highly skilled, extraordinarily intuitive...
Susan Rowland, Author
Jan 10, 20241 min read
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Best Reads of 2023!
https://shepherd.com/bboy/2023/f/susan-rowland When Covid came for Christmas 2022, there is no better comfort and joy than Georgette...
Susan Rowland, Author
Nov 1, 20232 min read
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Best ever talk on deep creativity and releasing the spontaneity of the psyche!
Don't be put off by title or not having read the book. This is for everyone interested in the psychological, spiritual, cosmological...
Susan Rowland, Author
Jun 9, 20231 min read
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The Firey Feminine: writing to inspire, in-spirit!
Join us for this Pacifica Online Author Spotlight with Dr. Susan Rowland as we talk about her newest JABR detective novel, The Alchemy...
Susan Rowland, Author
May 23, 20231 min read
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Alchemy, America, Climate Emergency... through Jungian Arts-Based Research
See how JABR becomes alchemy for the 21st century climate emergency and revisioning America through the cozy mystery, The Alchemy Fire...
Susan Rowland, Author
Mar 26, 20231 min read
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Pre-Order Today: The Alchemy Fire Murder
Pre-order Today! The Alchemy Fire Murder: A Mary Wandwalker Mystery The second book in Susan Rowland’s Mary Wandwalker Mystery Series!...
Susan Rowland, Author
Feb 1, 20233 min read
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Create! Via Jungian Arts-Based Research!
Susan and Joel will present on their book Jungian Arts-Based Research and the Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico (2021), which offers...
Susan Rowland, Author
Jan 12, 20231 min read
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Great Reading for the Holidays and 2023!
https://shepherd.com/best-books/female-centered-humorous-plots WISE CHILDREN by Angela Carter LAST DITCH by Catriona McPherson FEARLESS...
Susan Rowland, Author
Dec 14, 20221 min read
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Coming Soon! The Alchemy Fire Murder: A Mary Wandwalker Mystery
New in 2023: another story from the inexperienced detective trio: Mary, Caroline and Anna. Mary Wandwalker hates bringing bad news....
Susan Rowland, Author
Oct 28, 20221 min read
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One helluva review!
CLAIRE DYSON REVIEWS THE SACRED WELL MURDERS (Chiron, 2022) *****Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2022 Verified Purchase Loved...
Susan Rowland, Author
Aug 3, 20221 min read
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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
Jul 10, 20221 min read
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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
Feb 22, 20221 min read
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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 18, 20221 min read
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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
Jan 10, 20221 min read
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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
Apr 14, 20203 min read
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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 19, 20201 min read
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Pandemic: Our Choices, Our Creativity
Self-isolating is not Self Isolation
Susan Rowland, Author
Mar 17, 20202 min read
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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
Mar 3, 20203 min read
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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
Jan 31, 20207 min read
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