Tag: Prison of Loneliness
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Death > Life: How I Wrote my Most Unusual Book Recommendation List
A post about how it came to my unusual book recommendation list for shepherd.com on the topic “Best Psychological Books – When Death Seems Better Than Life”
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From Bestseller to Burnout: My Phoenix Tale
September was a month of rebirth—when a crippling depression forced me to step back, assess, and reset my writing career. Burned to Ash: From Bestseller to Burnout My brain hit the brakes after the successful launch of my debut novel “Prison of Loneliness” in August, which hit best-seller in the US, UK and Germany. I…
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Becoming an Author: A Serious Business
Becoming an author is getting more serious. I came back from my stay in the US last week and big questions greeted me welcome: What’s the burocratic status of my self-employment? When can I count with income? Will I pursue a day-job again next year? On which contintent will I live? Will my manuscript for…
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Learning From Failure
Today, I admit a failed project and how it made me grow. I quit my job to take a year off to fulfill a dream together with my best friend: to write the first book of a series of 6 that we called “Time & Memories”. In the prequel we had worked out a detailed…
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Surviving NYC with Resolution
A long journey. I had planned my trip to New York City to do research about early Irish settlements for “Time & Memories”, a series of 6 books for which I had decided to take a year off to write the first one, which has then evolved into the idea of becoming a full-fledged author…