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Invitation for Tour Starting Tuesday, August 25th.

Want to go on The Two Trilogy Tour? We are celebrating the completion of two trilogies: The Osgoode Trilogy and The Trilogy of Remembrance by Mary E. Martin.
What’s that?
It’s my blog tour which means a number of book blog hosts are featuring some aspect of my six novels starting tomorrow. All the details are right here. http://maryemartintrilogies.com/two-t.... You can find out about the two trilogies [one in the world of the law and the other in the art world.]
What else?
The tour kicks off with a radio show tomorrow CHARACTERS GONE MAD hosted by J D Holiday at 1 PM EST Tuesday, August 25h right here http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rrradio/...
And anything else?
Yes. A Contest! Someone will win a $200.00 Amazon Gift Card if he or she has given proof of purchase of just one of six novels in either The Osgoode Trilogy or The Trilogy of Remembrance. You can enter right here.
http://maryemartintrilogies.com/virtu...
Hope to see you at the party.

I’m Celia Smith, of Toronto. You may not have met me before, but you’ll find my story in The Drawing Lesson, the first in The Trilogy of Remembrance. You can even see me in a very short video arguing with Mother. There is much scandal in these stories but also much truth.

What kind of truth? Hopefully, a healing one. It’s about how a muse can affect not just your art, but every aspect of your entire life for better or for worse. It’s not just about finding inspiration for creating “things”.It’...

The Muse

Daphne Bersault is Alexander Wainwright’s muse and lover in the novel,The Drawing Lesson and Night Crossing, in The Trilogy of Remembrance. After meeting Alex by chance on the Orient Express to Venice and spending time with him in that city, she returned home to New York. For only one night, they had become lovers. Unable to answer the many questions rising up within her, she fought off a sense of disappointment. She didn’t know where she stood–something she disliked intensely.But, sh...

Are you like me? Lost at sea on the internet?
Since I’m always looking for advice, I make an appointment with my internet GURU high up in the mountains—of course.

A long climb!

After an arduous two day climb, I arrive—panting—at his door. We writers are notoriously rather out of shape. We prefer the comfort of a keyboard and a glass of wine!

My GURU

This GURU looks rather austere. No levity with him! But I have come a long way and am determined to ask my question.

ME: GURU,I have a hammer, saw, scr...

The next day, with some trepidation, I approached the Burgholzli Clinic where Dr. Carl Jung practised, taking care of patients we now classify as schizophrenic. See Jung on Great LIterature

The Burgholzli Clinic

I am in the waiting room of Dr. Jung’s clinic. I’m shown in to see the great man. Now I’m worried he will consider my question frivolous–to say the least–when he has such seriously ill patients to consider. But when I first meet him in the inner-sanctum, which is rather grand, I begin t...

A voyage into the unconscious.

A writer? A critic or reviewer? A reader?

Whom should we ask about the nature of great literature? How about a psychiatrist— ones as famous as Carl Jung or Sigmund Freud?

Dr. Carl Jung

What does Dr. Jung have to say on the topic? “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner play, necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Without this fantasy play, no creative work has ever yet come...

Some books give you answers about life—or at least they try.

The Trilogy of Remembrance asks questions—big ones—about the exciting, glorious mystery of life.

Alexander Wainwright, Britain’s finest landscape painter

Join Alexander Wainwright, Britain’s finest landscape artist and visionary, in his unending search for his muse and inspiration. Travel with him from London to Paris, the south of France, Venice, St. Petersburg and New York.

Along the way, he meets many people who provoke and challenge...

Does this look like heaven to you?

THE TRILOGY REMEMBRANCE by Mary E. Martin

is set in the glitter and shadows of the art world.

The Drawing Lesson

The Fate of Pryde

Night Crossing

Tired of recycled themes,static characters and predictable plots?

Ready for characters who make you think, feel and see as if you were right beside them?

Ready to explore the suspense-filled uncharted waters of love, life and the creative spirit?

Then you are ready for a Mary E. Martin Trilogy. [Yes. There are two trilogi...

Perhaps you’re wondering just who is speaking to you? You’ll recall, I’m James Helmsworth, Alexander Wainwright’s art dealer.

The Son of Man, by Magritte. I am everyman. Tonight I am James Helmsworth

If you’ve read The Trilogy of Remembrance, you’ll undoubtedly have questions about artists and their muses. Is it love? More than love? Or something all together different?

I am Daphne Bersault of New York

Alexander Wainwright, Britain’s finest landscape painter

I know that Daphne Bersault, whom I thi...

Still thinking about what makes great literature? [#2]

I have— and here’s what I’ve come up with.

Joseph Campbell, mythologist, lecturer and thinker is one of my favourite writers. He dedicated his career to the study of myth—story which comes from deep within human beings. Frequently I’ve turned to his work in studying what makes for great writing and more importantly–great story-telling. And his work really exploreswhywe tell such tales.

Mythic Worlds, Modern Words by Joseph Campbell

Joseph Cam...