I’m happy to announce that I have received the rights to my exciting time-travel adventure, ESCAPE FROM THE PAST, from my previous publisher. From now on, I’ll be doing publication and marketing in-house. The first step has been updating the three covers that were neither age- nor genre-appropriate. Back in 2015 when the first book […]
After the lull I mentioned in my last blog post, I have found my new story. Well, as much as a pantser can know at the beginning of a manuscript. Two Failed Tries I’d been thinking about a couple of narratives for a while. The first had to do with my grandfather, Willi, who also
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I look back on 2018 with utmost gratitude. A year ago, my husband and father suffered strokes within the span of three weeks. I spent months worrying about their recovery, watched tentative steps grow into wobbly walks. Neither man is fully recovered, yet they are moving, talking and exercising. My father just turned 90 and
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New Literary Agent I’m very excited to share that I’m now represented by literary agent, Dr. Dorothee Schmidt. As you know I recently translated my award-winning novel, Surviving the Fatherland, into German and I’m hoping this true story about my parents will be available in the German language market. New Prohibition Novel I’m putting the
Walking through my hometown, Solingen, in Germany, you’ll come across some old structures. I don’t mean historic districts like Gräfrath, after WWII the only preserved part of town. No, I’m talking about bunkers (bomb shelters). One could ask why there are still around? Too expensive to remove? Would we use them again? I doubt it.
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Reading/presentation of ‘Surviving the Fatherland‘ at VHS Solingen on April 19, 2018 at 19:00. The story is based on my parents growing up during WWII in Solingen. I’ll be sharing selected passages from the book that relate to certain occurrences in the war in general and in Solingen in particular. Please stay tuned for future
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***New Release This Week*** Get your copy of ‘Everything we Lose’ now! Visiting the German-German Border Museum The other weekend while visiting friends, we took a road trip to the former east-west boarder between Hessia (west) and Thuringia (east). Near Bad Sooden Allendorf, right on the original border, lies the first border museum of Germany,
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