The gut is your colleague, parents and writers!
Mother’s instinct vs. writer’s instinct As a mother AND writer I am truly grateful for my gut agreeing to help me with both. Parenting AND writing. Because: A child is…
Viking jewellery (Giveaway closed)
Jewellery to express status The Vikings, men and women alike, loved their jewellery. Rich people of the era expressed their status with it, just like with clothing and weaponry. Today,…
The Bear made me do it … Releasing “The Current”
Celebrating Release Day with crap hats and Viking beer This week FINALLY marks the release of my collection of sensual short stories “Tales of Freya”, starting with “The Current –…
The iconic idiocy of horned helmets
Or: Why horns were real … weren’t they? As a writer of Viking historical fiction – sensual or not – I stumble regularly across the silly misconception of warriors wearing…
How writing buddies become fighting buddies
Or: Can wounds be sexy? – From being stuck to publication With the imminent release of the first short story in the Tales of Freya series came retrospective. How each…
Wine, music, and hullabaloo … Reading “Tilda & Leo” in Aachen
Or: What’s the horse doing there? I wondered where that horse would go in the old town of Aachen. When driving down for my reading I followed that horse box…
Novembers aren’t for the faint of heart
How the insanity of NaNoWriMo actually keeps me sane Let’s face it, the organisers of the annual writing challenge NaNoWriMo did a brilliant job in chosing Novembers for it. Especially…
NaNoWriMo 2016: Half time!
… or: Right on track – just about The NaNoWriMo statistics are delightfully cruel and insightful. They are my prime motivation to keep going, and most writers are pushed to…
November’s frenzy: NaNoWriMo 2016!
… and why every writer should use NaNoWriMo to kickoff their big projects Hi guys, on a whim and even without FIRST hitting the word count of 1700 daily, every…
No, I don’t have time for “a” coffee …
A chat about the difficulty to protect “office-hours” (includes NaNoWriMo and coffee) Being a writer surrounded and held by a network of friends who are or are not writers is…