1) I suppose what inspired me most was my first visit to a library. I was only two years old, and I was hugely impressed by all those bookcases! Also, my grandfather had a vast amount of books, and both he and my grandmother read to me from them. When I got older, I began to read those books - my favorite author being Alexander Dumas - and soon I felt I could write the same sort of story.
2) Mostly I write historical fiction. But one day - it was a cold and misty day in November - I thought I could perhaps do something different. The time of year inspired me to write a short story which was a bit gloomy. Because I thought it worked rather well, I wrote more stories in the course of the following weeks.
3) Expertise? I just love to write. And of course I have a master's in English Literature and Linguistics.
4) I love to communicate with people. I travel a lot, and very often to the USA. I practise sports (skiing, horseback riding) and I even can knit my own pullovers;
5) My future plans include rewriting a book and then to continue with the follow-up parts. For years, I could not find the inspiration to make part two as good as the first book, but now I think I've found a solution for that.
6) I would love to be Marguerite (in fact, she has lots of me already). Although she tries to be strong, she often feels insecure and afraid. But she finds love - a love that few of us ever experience.
9) The idea of getting published dawned on me somewhere in the eighties. But then there was no internet, so I depended on a friend to find addresses of publishers and agents for me. I wrote lots of letters, but had no success in getting my story of the Medici Diamonds published.
10) The most awful thing that ever happened to me was when I tried again to get my book published - twenty years later. An editor of a reputed publishing house emailed me that she loved the book - but that it came twenty years too late! She literally said: it could have been a bestseller when you had submitted this some twenty years ago... Still, I don't give up. This book IS good, I know that.
11) I never put an outline on paper, but I have a vague idea in my mind how the story should go. When writing, however, this can change.
2) Mostly I write historical fiction. But one day - it was a cold and misty day in November - I thought I could perhaps do something different. The time of year inspired me to write a short story which was a bit gloomy. Because I thought it worked rather well, I wrote more stories in the course of the following weeks.
3) Expertise? I just love to write. And of course I have a master's in English Literature and Linguistics.
4) I love to communicate with people. I travel a lot, and very often to the USA. I practise sports (skiing, horseback riding) and I even can knit my own pullovers;
5) My future plans include rewriting a book and then to continue with the follow-up parts. For years, I could not find the inspiration to make part two as good as the first book, but now I think I've found a solution for that.
6) I would love to be Marguerite (in fact, she has lots of me already). Although she tries to be strong, she often feels insecure and afraid. But she finds love - a love that few of us ever experience.
9) The idea of getting published dawned on me somewhere in the eighties. But then there was no internet, so I depended on a friend to find addresses of publishers and agents for me. I wrote lots of letters, but had no success in getting my story of the Medici Diamonds published.
10) The most awful thing that ever happened to me was when I tried again to get my book published - twenty years later. An editor of a reputed publishing house emailed me that she loved the book - but that it came twenty years too late! She literally said: it could have been a bestseller when you had submitted this some twenty years ago... Still, I don't give up. This book IS good, I know that.
11) I never put an outline on paper, but I have a vague idea in my mind how the story should go. When writing, however, this can change.
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