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Mysteries
have been a passion for Mary Devlin
since she discovered Nancy Drew at the
age of eight, and were expanded to
romantic suspense when, in high
school, she became an avid fan of
Victoria Holt and Mary Stewart. A BA
in English, she specialized in
the heroic and medieval ages,
including study of Chaucer and other
medieval poets. Her love of medieval
studies and her enthusiasm for
mysteries eventually led her to Ellis
Peters, Edward Marston, Candace Robb,
Sharan Newman, and Peter Tremayne. A
dream caused her to make a detective
out of noted poet/astrologer Geoffrey
Chaucer, and the result includes two
novels featuring Chaucer, MURDER ON
THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMAGE and THE
LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN. Another of
Mary's mysteries is PORTRAIT OF
VICTORINE, a novel of romantic
suspense set in the contemporary Paris
art world. DEVON WAKEFIELD, a
historical romance set in 18th-century
Australia, was released at Christmas
of 2001.
Ms. Devlin
is also quite well known in the fields
of astrology and New Age thought. She
is a certified Professional Member of
the American Federation of
Astrologers, and was trained by Marcia
Moore in karmic astrology and
past-life regression. Mary's many
published works include books such as
I AM MARY SHELLEY, ASTROLOGY AND PAST
LIVES and ASTROLOGY AND RELATIONSHIPS,
and YOUR FUTURE LIVES, THE PSYCHOLOGY
OF SPIRIT, and the recently-released
MEDIEVAL MUSIC, MAGICAL MINDS, as well
as a significant number of magazine
articles. Her current works in
progress include LOVE, SEX AND THE
SPIRITUAL LIFE, THE LOST MUSIC OF
IRELAND, and TAROT OF THE RISHIS, a
combination book and Tarot card deck
based on Hindu mythology, in
conjunction with noted San Francisco
artist Steven Johnson Leyba. She has
lectured on these subjects all over
the United States and in England and
Holland.
A trained
actress and screenwriter, Ms. Devlin
studied acting at Estelle Harman’s
Academy, and screenwriting under
Travis Pike and Steven Wolfson in Los
Angeles, and Ken Valentine at San
Francisco’s Film Arts Foundation. In
her early days in Los Angeles, she
appeared on stage in Moonchildren
and in several films, including And
Now for the Murder written,
produced and directed by Carl Binder.
She also wrote and produced William
the Conqueror, a historical
docudrama, as well as a documentary on
firewalking and a number of music
videos.
Ms.
Devlin is also an accomplished
vocalist. Classically trained in both
opera and bel canto, she was a folk
singer for a number of years before
discovering medieval and Renaissance
music. An Anglophile who divides her
time between London and Los Angeles,
she performed for several years with a
London-based medieval ensemble called
The Lion Tree, and at the same time
maintained a solo career concentrating
on songs of the Elizabethan period.
She was highly praised for her
performances for the London Film
Festival, and her work has been
featured on both radio and television.
In 1998 she produced and performed in
a revival of the medieval comic opera,
Le Gieus de Robin et Marion,
for the Berkeley Early Music Festival
Fringe. Presently she directs the
Sherwood Consort, a mixed vocal
ensemble specializing in medieval,
Renaissance and traditional music. In
addition to singing, she plays lute,
gittern, crwth, and harp. The Sherwood
Consort has released three CDs,
Between March and April: Music of
Medieval England; Robin Loves Me: The
Legend of Robin and Marion; and
One Day as I Went Riding.
Ms. Devlin
is also an amateur painter, primarily
influenced by and interested in the
Impressionists. She has traveled all
over the world, from Mexico to
Australia to Kenya to all parts of
Europe, and has spent a considerable
amount of time in Paris, France. She
is the mother of two sons, Thomas and
Allan Dye, both accomplished musicians
and award-winning cartoonists, and a
daughter, Laura Meador, a real estate
management specialist. Ms. Devlin
currently lives in
Los Angeles,
California, with three cats, Cricket,
Erin, and Draupadi.
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