Ask the Author: Susan Rowland
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Susan Rowland
W. B. Yeats from way way back. Especially the last poems. However I am privileged to be married to a great poet of our time whose work is open access from his University of New Mexico archive:
Joel Weishaus is working on how we get to the depths of being at home on this planet in the age of Anthropocene and climate crisis.
Joel Weishaus is working on how we get to the depths of being at home on this planet in the age of Anthropocene and climate crisis.
Susan Rowland
I did buy the book earlier and have started reading. Have changed rating to reflect where it is going for me.
Susan Rowland
Toula, I am so sorry. I have not consciously rated anything with one star. Plus, I have not read your book. If you have a rating from me, this must be some glitch. I want to right the wrong. Tell me the name of your novel and I will do something about this rating.
Susan Rowland
I wanted to take one of the most traditional of mystery tropes: the country house murder and make it a wholly 21st century story.
After all, it is a tough century to live in!
After all, it is a tough century to live in!
Susan Rowland
Basically, I have wanted to write novels since I was five.
I did not start properly until I was 54. Go figure!
I did not start properly until I was 54. Go figure!
Susan Rowland
A story in my Mary Wandwalker mystery series. This one is called MURDER ON FAMILY GROUNDS and it shows how she got together with Caroline Jones and Anna Vronsky.
Susan Rowland
The best advice I heard.
"When you start, you are not very good. Keep going and you will get better."
Definitely true for me.
"When you start, you are not very good. Keep going and you will get better."
Definitely true for me.
Susan Rowland
That feeling when it works.
Especially when you know that the months, weeks, days and hours of work have been worth it for that one glorious sentence!
Especially when you know that the months, weeks, days and hours of work have been worth it for that one glorious sentence!
Susan Rowland
I do not believe there is a simple answer. However, I do believe that there is a way through.
The Jungians say, find an image for the block and work with it. Good advice.
The Jungians say, find an image for the block and work with it. Good advice.
Susan Rowland
She wrote. No one read it.
Susan Rowland
Apart from Hogwarts, I would like to visit the Provence of M. L. Longworth.
Susan Rowland
Anything new by Donna Leon, Catrional McPherson, Candace Robb and G. M. Malliet.
Susan Rowland
Don't we all have secrets that we keep close?
One of the best things about mysteries is the opportunity to take failures in life and rethink them as plots. As a woman who never had a child, this not altogether comfortable fact feeds into The Sacred Well Murders when Mary Wandwalker is faced with meeting as an adult the son she gave up for adoption as a baby.
One of the best things about mysteries is the opportunity to take failures in life and rethink them as plots. As a woman who never had a child, this not altogether comfortable fact feeds into The Sacred Well Murders when Mary Wandwalker is faced with meeting as an adult the son she gave up for adoption as a baby.
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