Category: A-Z Blogging Challenge

Here’s the last post for the A-Z Blogging Challenge. It was a lot of fun but also very tiring, especially since I’m going to start my Kickstarter campaign in a few days. Here is a little poem called “Zebrastreifen” (zebra stripes), first published in 2007 in the book Wortbeben. To understand this poem, you need…

Young Adults drive me nuts, but they’re also the age group I love to write for. I guess it comes from being semi-stuck in my teens mentally. I remember how hard it was when you weren’t a child any more but not a woman yet. Also, I see my teen daughters struggle. Puberty is probably…

This is all I’ll say about X-Men: Swoon… he’s as sexy as my husband and that says something because my husband is the best and sexiest man alive!

A friend of mine is dying with no chance of a cure. This caught me cold since he barely escaped death after a severe accident a few years back. Instead of being devastated (I’m sure he ranted at some point but he didn’t share that), he decided to enjoy what little time he’s got left.…

I’m always extremely excited when a reader takes the time to write a review for one of my books. However, they don’t always turn out the way I want them. Although I know that I will never be able to please every single reader out there, I always despair when someone doesn’t like what I…

In writing, I face unexpected challenges often. Mostly when my characters start doing things on their own without consideration to what I had plotted or planned for them. Usually, that requires either a change of plan (which is what I do most of the time) or a change of the character (which I do when…

First things first: today is “Blogger Schenken Lesefreude” (bloggers give reading pleasure) day and I’m participating. You’ll find the giveaway below my blogpost. But first a few words about people I admire: I thought I’d tell you something about translators today. Their names are always in the small print, implying they’re unimportant. On the surface,…

Although I’d love to, I’m not going to hold a biology lecture on the subject, promised. This post focuses on another aspect of creating stories. Humans have two sides to their brain that handle different things. The right brain is considered the creative side and the left brain is thought to handle logical aspects. I,…

Here is a little film I made for my kickstarter campaign which will start early May. It’s a trailer for reMIND. Enjoy and let me know if you like it. By the way, I’m still looking for helpers. If you want to help me spread the word about the campaign, please sign up below. I…