Welcome 2014!

So, yet another year is gone down the road and we have now 2014. 2013 was good and busy. I wrote the first drafts of three novels, I went to Europe twice, I took paper-driver lessons and “graduated” and bought my first car ever. Also busy working life with loads of domestic business trips but only once to Shanghai.

The outlook for 2014 – maybe twice Shanghai work-wise, we’ll see, and I expect the same amount of domestic running about.

Lots of car adventures are planned, of course, to come into and stay in practice. So hopefully, by the end of 2014 riding my little car will become the most natural thing ever, as opposed to the pangs of fright I am still suffering frequently and the constantly wet hands that get wiped at every traffic light!

Book-wise I am planning to write part two of a space opera whose 1st part is still in the process of being shopped around, and part two of a high fantasy trilogy, whose first part is supposed to come out via Dark Quest at the end of the year, but since That One Minute novella is not out yet either, I rather suspect it will become 2015 before the first part of the high fantasy trilogy sees the light of day.

There is the never-ending hope to land an agent and subsequently a bigger book deal of course – we’ll see what happens.

Right now I am busy with another Odyssey Online course – powerful dialogue – for which I must do a bunch of homework now and which is my excuse for this blog entry being rather short

The first course happened for me on the morning of the 3rd of January and it was great and the course will keep me busy throughout January.

Oh… and yes, Hagen 3 will come out in the middle of the year or so

I wish everyone who reads this all the best for 2014!