NaNoWriMo across the World
Read how writers in other countries are doing NaNoWriMo – NaNo Road Trip Read more…
It’s raining men and Urban Fantasy, halleluja
So much going on: Book 2 of Rule of Thorns almost done and book 1 rewritten. With some mom-yoga-moments thrown in. Read more…
You feel calm and enlightened? Move back in with your family for a while
Elizabeth Gilbert made a short video through Oprah about life lessons. Very funny and good to watch if you have some family-gathering ahead of you ;-) Read more…
Fantasy Warrior Workout for beginners
I like kettlebell training and certain yoga poses because they combine into what feels like a Warrior Training. I can just imagine the heroes of my favorite books, all gorgeous hunks of course, doing just this training to look the way they do. Yum. Read more…
Breathe, life is good!
“Nearly all the women I know are stressing themselves sick over the pathological fear that they simply aren’t doing enough with their lives.” So Elizabeth Gilbert begins a recent article and it echoed in my head long after I read it. Read more…
Puddle splashing
It must be my kids’ favorite activity in Doha: puddle splashing. Since this is Doha in the desert state of Qatar we’re talking about and not your daily stroll through a forest back home in rainy Europe, “puddle splashing” doesn’t involve rubber boots and mud. (More’s the pity.) It calls for a SUV and a mom with nerves of steel. ;-) This is the sight that makes my kids shriek with glee when we drive through the compound gates on our morning school run. The puddles are much deeper than they look. Even with an SUV, you get the feeling you’re Read more…
Reading live from Staub und Aether in Secondlife
The lovely Kueperpunk made it possible: Anja Bagus and I are reading LIVE from our stories on Valentine’s Day. You can tune in from wherever you are, because the reading will be held inside Secondlife, at Kueper’s author hub Brennende Buchstaben. :-) I’m sooo excited! squeee :-) I’ve been to past readings at Brennende Buchstaben and was always blown away by the attention to detail these guys invest, be it creating a unique set for every reading, fitting to the book’s theme. Some very creative stuff! Or Kueper helping out the author reading parts of the book — and he has Read more…
After NaNoWriMo is before NaNoWriMo … or is that Christmas?
Writing more than 60k words in under 4 weeks? I thought it was impossible. Along came Reverse NaNoWriMo. Read more…
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