It has been two years. I am going to be honest, I have been in a writing slumb ever since I published my first book Feuer, Wasser, Erde, Luft. In two years many things have happened. I have finished my bachelor degree in History and decided in the future I wanted to work for some international organisation. I, therefore, started my Master in Global History and Global Studies and now I am already half way through and about to write my Masterthesis.

At the same time I learned quite a lot about myself. I have been in my first relation ship that lasted about two months, which made me realise how important my own freedom is to myself. I also picked up reading classical literature. I started with Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. This book made me realise I miss writing. This was also the time the movie Pride and Prejudice (2005) became my favourite movie. Now it became a ritual to watch it once every month. The book of Charlotte Bronte, the Pride and Prejudice movie, as well as many Taylor Swift songs were necessary to start a new writing project. I wrote my first novel. I started around March of this year and finished the writing process in August. My brother was so kind to design the book cover and my mother provided me with poems, because the main character’s hobby is writing poetry.

I kept reading books from Emily and Anne Bronte, and also from Jane Austen. I prefer the Bronte Sisters over Jane Austen to be honest, yet all of these books have greatly inspired me, and suddenly I had ideas for even more stories and I decided I wanted to write books as important as those of these authors. It was especially the book the tenant of wildfell hall from Anne Bronte that influenced this decision the most.

In short I guess I just want to say, I do not know whether this inspiration and motivation I derived from all these books, movies, and events in my own life are ever lasting, and whether I can truly make it in a world of books with so many to compete, but this summer I decided I would try for real this time. If I could sometime sustain myself with writing books and maybe giving lessons in yoga and pilates, two hobbies that somehow became a very important part of my personality, I think I could be truly satisfied and fulfilled.