06 Apr
Bad Friday

In Ireland, the Friday before Easter (interestingly named Good Friday), sees the country getting close to a state of national mourning. That is when the Irish, in an attempt to inflict a bit of the suffering that Jesus went through for them sinners, the Irish government flogs their herd with an almost biblical punishment – [...]
29 Mar
Cruel Irish Summer

Spray-tan-orange heels in flip-flops, packs of topless men on Dublin streets, kids in swim-suites who throw themselves into the balmy 10 degrees of the Irish Sea? Can only mean one thing: March has arrived in Ireland. Early spring usually is the “time of hope”, as hubby likes to call it – those blessed couple of [...]
11 Mar
Proud to Buy Irish

If you are not into the whining self-pity of a writer, feel free to skip this paragraph. After me  banging that drum of Ireland being an endless well of quirky stories and weird anecdotes, I would not blame you, dear readers, if you felt let down by now. So far, exactly ZERO stories about Leprechauns [...]
19 Jan
10 Weeks Published. And so?

Greetings, readers! Don’t worry, in spite of the circling rumors I have not yet left for the Caymans, managing my overwhelming stream of income from my bestselling book WIE DU MIR, which was published last November. Although I came quite close to that scenario, in some regards. My publisher and I have actually managed to [...]
11 Dec
Love, Hate and other Shenanigans

Most times I love my characters. Even if they are hard to like, even if they do horrible things, even if they hurt others like hell, I could keep looking, smiling and cooing at them, and genuinely feel wretched when something bad happens to them (and that happens a lot). But you know what? Sometimes [...]
27 Nov
238 Days of Munich

Sorry, dear Munich! It’s not you … it’s me. I have tried you and failed quite miserably. You welcomed me with open arms, I had a nice summer and now I don’t feel any regret leaving you. Then again, it has always been quite an unfair fight between your laid back alpine charm and the [...]
09 Nov
Publication and Everything After

And just like that … I got published. At least this is how it looks now, after all those years of agonizing over writing, finding an agent, not finding a publisher, editing and then finding a micro-publisher after all. Now my baby is born, sitting on my lap, all fresh-faced and smelling sweetly. I have [...]