Books - Manuscripts - Novels
Do a good novel writer need a special education to send the reading people into the fictional world?
Is it important if he/she has ever learnt to write instead of having the talent to thrill the readers?
For me it is more important to give the readers of my books a good time, a new a experience when they wander through the world and time of my novels. After my first novel was written I gave it to my friends and family before I got a chance to publish it for myself (and later by a small and private publisher). The response was great and overwhelming - the comments, also from unknown people, wonderful and spurring. A local newspaper visited and interviewed me and the German book distributor took my book into it´s range. But despite all this the big German publishers are still too ignorant to give me a real change on the book market. Not a well-known name - no book!
My book about the Northern Ireland Conflict and the IRA (a true background embedded in a fiction novel) was translated and later proof-read by an english speaking person*. I published the english book for myself and hoped to reach more readers - readers who are able to read the english language.
If you like to buy it, you can email me. Just take a moment and learn about it. Click here to read a few pages of "Tomorrow there will be peace", to read the comments and what the german readers said.
If you want to read parts of my other novels which are still unpublished in english, then click below: (Please note that the mentioned below novels are only translated by me - grammar mistakes are unavoidable but I hope I´ve done my best)
"Scrubbashing" - a novel of today in the Outback of Australia (could be read completely here)
"Stony Way" - a novel of the 19th century about a female convict and the gold-rush
"Like a leaf in an Irish storm" - a novel around the Irish famine in the 19th century
"Dark clouds at the horizon" - a novel of love and hate in the bush of the 19th century in Australia
- You will also find useful and interesting links about the historical background when clicking on the title -
My dream is to see people reading my books, my novels which are mostly embedded in the real background of the history and the land - and maybe, one day, there will be someone who wants to publish them in english. Try them, read a few lines.......
Note for german readers: "Tomorrow there will be peace" is also available in german via German book-stores :"...und morgen ist Frieden", Fouque-Verlag. EUR 18,40
* My thanks goes to Mrs. M. Paris in Perth/Australia who has proof-read my novel !
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