Susan L. Marshall






Contemporary Metaphysical
Literature
Author & Artist

History-making Theatre Practitioner
Amazon Best-selling Author
National Volunteer Award Recipient
Award for Special Civic Service Recipient
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COMING SOON

Princess Zyra’s
Lost Storm

“Starry sparks rest your shine,
light will travel through its times.
Love will clear the lost storm,
bringing the clear sky back home.”

History-making theatre practitioner and Amazon
best-selling author, Susan Marshall, celebrates Australian childhood and its uniqueness in this captivatingly epic, metaphysical myth in verse for children.

Princess Zyra’s Lost Storm: An Australian Childhood Myth, is a lyrical narrative and visual feast, enhanced by Susan’s distinctively unique illustrations. The moonlit cosmos of Sea Castle transcends the fierce beauty of Australian land and sea, empowering our hero, Princess Zyra as its original mystic, pioneer and adventurer. A tale of child heroism, adventure and the quest for being and existing as Australia faces drought.

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Immerse yourself in the breath-taking journeys of the Romantic Spirit in these publications by
Susan L. Marshall. Now available at all good bookstores around the globe.

Adult Readers

An evocative, soul-stirring poetry collection for adults that is a tribute to Susan L. Marshall’s refined, globally renown, metaphysical artistry.

“Harnessing winter’s energy, I drift,
my free, wild woman soul,
alight with day’s deep desires.”

An Amazon best-selling publication by Susan L. Marshall.

A #1 Hot New Release in Australian and Oceanian Poetry at Amazon.

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“Susan Marshall’s metaphysical poetry is absolutely breath-taking. Her refined verses emblaze winter with wild, artistic journeys that resonate deeply within, empowering us to face life’s challenges with courage and love.”

-Maggie Vasalla, Independent Reviewer

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History-making author and theatre practitioner, Susan L. Marshall, sets our spirits alight in this sensual and exclusive poetry collection for adults.

“Bare and glistening blooms do reach,
longing to connect with my being.
Setting my feminine spirit alight
in a tightly wound body of darkness.”

An Amazon best-selling Publication by Susan L. Marshall.
Susan’s sensual verse draws upon breathtaking imagery to distil
and transcend single moments, which arise the ‘bare spirit’ from within.

Review
“Susan Marshall is a brilliant metaphysical poet, who allows us to transcend life’s moments with love. Bare Spirit is a Romantic, visual splendour of life’s sensual and raw impressions on the spirit.”

– Hendrick Jorgensen, Independent Reviewer.

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New Adult Readers


Will Adria outwit the dark horse?

“In our hyper vigilant states our hearts did wrestle, determined to live and fight. We were willing to sacrifice contentment for that single, valuable breath.”

Meet 23 year old, Private Detective Adira Cazon as she attempts to outwit the dangerous dark horse in the first book of the new An Adira Cazon Literary Mystery series. A metaphysical mystery, the story transcends the feminine spirit through the courage of women facing the dangerous powers of the silk trade routes of past and present. An atmospheric and gripping page turner in search of the truth.

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“Susan Marshall is a Metaphysical Empress. In a dark world of resistance, she masterfully sets Private Detective Adira Cazon’s pure feminine spirit alight. Deeply intelligent, courageous, raw and sensual, Adira, the woman, is a tour de force.”

– Maggie Vasalla, Independent Reviewer.

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Young Adult Readers



The second play in the monumental Theatre Playscapes series.

“We must fight for our hopes, Samuel,
they are too precious to lose.
If we carry enough hope,
we can heal the world.”

A play that respects the war survivor, who faced with the traumas and turbulence of war, must find ways to carry themself and to survive. All the Hope You Carry will linger with you long after you have read it.

This publication also includes the inspirational article: Theatre Playscapes of Hope.

Review
“Susan Marshall’s writing resonates with a power and energy that moves you. Her worlds spark with life, heightening finite details which both absorb her characters and define their spirits within them. She gifts the war survivor with a strong presence that transcends well beyond the page. We trek each step with her characters, live and breathe their moments and are amazed by their highly creative journeys. Read All the Hope We Carry and allow yourself to be carried away.”

– Hendrick Jorgensen, Independent Reviewer.

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Award-winning Susan Marshall makes history with a new theatrical style: Theatre Playscapes. Fleur of Yesterday is the premiere Theatre Playscapes play.

“The carnation flower’s scent is fragrant in the breeze.
It wakes me so I escape the dark world of dreams.”

Drawing upon the beauty of both the English and French languages, Susan creates an evocative, energetic and mysterious play for young adults.

This publication also includes the monumental article that introduced Theatre Playscapes to the world: Theatre Playscapes: A New Theatrical Style.

Review
“Susan Marshall’s Theatre Playscapes style, is the theatre for young adults in our contemporary times. In this premiere play: Fleur of Yesterday, Susan expertly heightens the energy of young Fleur, cherishing her presence, her fragmentary memories and worlds.
We are allured by her undying devotion to love and life itself.”

– Maggie Vasalla, Independent Reviewer

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follow Romantic Wanderer, Susan L. Marshall’s writing and publishing journeys through her highly regarded My Story Meadow Project. This program is a globally renown favourite for readers and writers who have a passion for writing and its fruition as it evolves into a completed, professional publication.

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Susan L. Marshall’s unique voice invites us to enter into the enchanting realms of metaphysics, mysticism and Romanticism. Her diverse literary journeys, projects and publications are
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Spring Journal Entry: Hour’s Desire

Merging into the heat and depths of “Hour’s Desire”, holding onto the wills and actions of cosmos and character. A consuming writing experience.

Imagine that your existence in the world was fleeing and impermanent, along with your own experiences and memories of it. That you had to adapt to a single hour of time, with its own desire and are forbidden to express your own. What would you do? How could you hold onto and nurture a great love? Or yearn to exist in your own unique way with your own free will?

A Special Share: The Mystic in Me


Stepping outside, nature calls to me, the wind luring me forward, caressing my skin, awakening my soul. The teasing warmth of the sun adorns my being, hiding in and out of fast moving clouds, coaxing me to chase its light.

I don’t need to chase, yet absorb the wonder and awe of life that surrounds me. The pop of colours that bloom as spring unfolds, the call of bird life or the flutter of wings passing by. I do not know life without acknowledging that I am not only being and existing (metaphysical), yet also evoking feelings of wonder, awe and transcendence as I connect myself and / or you, my wonderful readers to a deeper, more spiritual or transcendent reality (mystical).

It is unexplainable the journey I have undertaken. I can say that the illustrations I completed for “Princess Zyra’s Lost Storm” flowed through my veins and came from a deep, soulful place. It was through this journey, as a debut illustrator, that the next stage of my spiritual growth unravelled. I realised that the person who I had always really struggled to completely understand inside, who could communicate so uniquely with energetic motions around her, had a further skill. I am not only metaphysical, yet also mystical, something I realise many of you may have already connected with or witnessed in my work.

Princess Zyra’s Lost Storm:
Shaping the Hero


It is wonderful how the concept of the ‘hero’ has originated through mythology. I have enjoyed creating the ‘hero’ in Princess Zyra for children. She is a unique hero that will, as time ticks, take on a very special mission and journey.
My take on the hero has been to involve her in a mystical cosmos. In many historical myths, the cosmos is explained as structured system, interconnected, with the use of symbolic narrative to explain how it originated and works. Characters in such myths, not only include people, yet also creatures and celestial bodies – their roles are personified, as beings with specific roles.

It is common in these myths, to work with states of chaos and order. I won’t give away the story, yet will say that our hero, Princess Zyra, must also seek to unravel the mystery of being, which is central to her own cosmos and to many myths.

I cannot tell you how much I have really enjoyed these aspects, (along with many others) and how great it has been to see that my original myth, through lyrical/narrative poetry and illustration, are working together to unravel a wondrous, awe-inspiring and truly mysterious world.

Official Announcement:
Title of Theatre Playcapes #3

I am listening to Rodriguez Jnr’s song: “An Evidence of Time” – a song that I really enjoy with its epic and evocative style as I write this post. It takes me to spaces of existential noise, time span and cosmic realities, among other things, the never-ending stretch of time …

Today, I officially announce that the third book of the Theatre Playscapes series is titled: “Planet Zero.” It is a title that many of our readers are familiar with and one that I am really enjoying workshopping, devising and writing. Such work involves a tonne of inspiration and creativity, along with aptitude in carefully curating and applying the original Theatre Playscapes style to the piece.

Romantic Aesthetics …


Thank you to all Readers for their interest in my new writing project: “Everly in Evenfall.” It is a project that I am enjoying developing immensely. I’ve even added some new inspirational images on its Pinterest board today.

The story at the moment, has wonderful romantic and fantasy aesthetics. If you are into cottage core aesthetics, it shares that feel too. These aesthetics allow me to appreciate how to capture language, mood, character, setting and stylistic choices. I can also start to consider symbolic colours and how they relate to story and themes. I have learned to select just the right aesthetics, helping me to cultivate the beginnings of genre focus and emergence. It’s how I like to work, including my time with energies outside (my playscapes) and music as inspiration, among other techniques. Every writer works differently.

If you wish to view “Everly in Evenfall’s” or any other of my stories’ Pinterest boards, you can do so at my general author page at this Pinterest link.

The Magic of Nature


I love finding those times in nature, that make me slow down, focus and just observe. There is magic to be found in the rustling of leaves; the dusty light that falls and sparks; the cacophony of sounds that may suddenly erupt; the beauty of a flock of birds soaring high … so many wondrous things to admire. In these moments, I can feel energies that stir within, that enable me to connect with and find meaning in my environments.

Some of the images in “Princess Zyra’s Lost Storm” take their inspiration from natural and physical environments that I have visited in Australia. It has been quite the wonderful experience to enhance the metaphysical life of these environments, enabling them to contribute to the mythical world of the story through illustration and digital art (including photography). Yes, “Princess Zyra’s Lost Storm” is set in the fictional world of Sea Castle. Readers do know, that I get a lot of inspiration from the natural and physical worlds I am absorbed in and so I can’t wait to share my journey with you in this upcoming publication.

We cannot underestimate our connections with our worlds and that in itself, is a wondrous journey for children to take. Each child’s connections with their worlds are unique and to be celebrated; all the while helping them to flourish, self discover and grow.

If you want to have a moment to heal or relax, spend it in nature – it will surprise you with its gifts …
Self love matters greatly … a main theme of this metaphysical myth, to last for generations to come

Journal Entry: Adira Cazon Book 2

“Sans identité claire, j’ai envie de respirer avec la vie.”
– Copyright, Susan L. Marshall “Adira Cazon Literary Mystery Book 2,” 2025.

Sometimes, when I am playing my music, notes fall like a cascade from the touch of my fingers and reveal the inner tunes of my soul.

The rhythm builds and swells to a crescendo that pulses deeply within, attuning me to my deeper, more primal emotions. The room around me is adorned with a tune that has somehow birthed itself amidst the comforts of my surroundings. It is a lyrical footprint in the never-ending continuum of time.

A tune that I carry with me, beating its way subconsciously in my mind, while I work away at writing. This particular tune’s notes have taken their journeys in particular directions, allowing the re-emergence and growth of the beloved Adira Cazon. There is a new rawness to her feminine presence, at beat against the fiery atmosphere of Mira, her place of origin, that she has returned to, a dangerous place, in her Book 1.
Yet, this Adira and her unravelling beats of life are bubbling within me, bursting to be translated onto the page. They have saturated my mind with a blend of French and English languages, which bring an evocative, feminine spiritual rawness to my work on “Adira Cazon Literary Mystery Book 2,” her new story.

Adira is here, with a definite je ne sais crois. She has returned with a determination (a tour de force yet to be seen). She is pulsing with a life that burns within me and will find its beats within her pages.

The sweeping narrative of this book has already struck Adira against her landscape, through fire and saucy romance … also a murder mystery too, that is unravelling its clues …
I’d better get back to work on this book …

Children’s Fiction Journal: Princess Zyra’s Lost Storm


Writing metaphysical fiction in any genre, is quite the consuming process. Particularly because the setting and its symbolic meaning is just as important as the characters who thrive in its existence.

As I re-read the story in verse: “Princess Zyra’s Lost Storm,” I am fine tuning the deeper metaphysical connections for characters and ensuring that the plot line and specific character archs run smoothly. This takes a lot of tweaking, a little like a ‘world machine.’ In a combination of metaphysical myth and fantasy, you try to aim for a world balance too, as the story unfolds – part of the joy is to show how the balance may not be okay and how we work to regain it by the end.

Writing fantasy itself is very in depth, if you consider that you are creating an entire world from scratch, with its own ways of existence, world, creatures, people, etc. That world in itself, combined with metaphysics, has been quite entertaining to write for children. I realise that this requires a patient mindset, to have all parts of the ‘world machine’ clear and working smoothly in order for the story to flow. To also have enough wonder, as well as conflict /tension to have an obstacle or more to solve too.

The story is told in the active past tense, so it feels somewhat timeless. The story also has a sense of cosmogonic mythology, as it shows how the world of Sea Castle (and its deeper symbolic connections to characters) came to be through the journeys of its characters.

On Creating Suspense in Metaphysical Mystery: An Author’s Insight


“As a metaphysical mystery author, I like to gift settings and characters with voices of their own and work to build their metaphysical ontology (meanings) and states of existence. This fragmentation is essential for me to test the strength of world and character and to see how far I can stretch it. There are marvellous times where a wonderful metaphysical connection will occur between character and setting and such times are often surprising and intriguing! These golden times I pay close attention to, letting the mystery take the flow and journey it needs, developing even richer settings and characters by doing so.

“I favour suspense as a metaphysical mystery author. Often I will choose the ‘attention’ level I wish to give a character, setting or both. For example, I might slow the pace of the setting down, bringing focus to a single aspect, to build intrigue. Further still, I might eliminate character information, holding it back, to create suspense.

“Suspense in metaphysical mystery should not be forced, as it would destroy the very essence of the social dynamic and states of existence that the world depends upon. It can also weaken character connection and plot line. Great suspense sits fluidly within the story and is part of the revelation of the world’s existence and impact on the human experience of the character concerned.”
-Susan L. Marshall

The Metaphysical Plot:
A Writer’s Insight


“A metaphysical plot line is like a best friend. It accompanies you through a life journey as you decipher the deeper, more profound meanings (ontologies) of specific worlds and curate their existences. Together, through cause and effect, amongst the energies of life, a deep, resonating story and characters, slowly unravel their new buds and take their form. Attuning oneself to the direction that this journey takes and nurturing it, is vital for it to have its own liveable essence, atmosphere and function … to exist.

“I am always very excited by the surprising ideas that this process generates and love the thrill of engaging in the ebb and flow of developing an immersive and intriguing plot line. Such tremendous joy!”
-Susan L. Marshall

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