Bigger is better - Piratenkapitän and Piratenjunge available in bigger print

My youngest son complained that Piratenjunge, my German young adult novel, is too hard to read due to the small font size in the paperback version. As I wrote the book and its sequel Piratenkapitän for my kids, I ran a little side publishing project over the Christmas break period and added a new edition of both books as large print. It was a compromise between number of pages and readability, hopefully he will continue to read past chapter five when the new print version arrives on Thursday.

Mostly it was an exercise in Word formatting and Scrivener rediscovery of lost know-how. But maybe that is another worthy post for a later day...

Both books are now available on all the major platforms. 

Update: Ein Schritt nach dem anderen... Piratenjunge und Piratenkapitän nun auf Smashword.com und Amazon

Um die Piratenbücher auf Deutsch in weiteren Formaten bereit zu stellen, habe ich diese ab sofort neben Amazon auch auf Smashword.com gestellt. Piratenjunge und Piratenkapitän mit den neuen Titelbildern!
Druckausgabe von Piratenkapitän und eine zweite leicht überarbeitete Druckausgabe sind nun auf Amazon erhältlich.
Druckausgabe des Piratenkapitäns folgt in den nächsten Tagen.

Piratenkapitän nun als eBook verfügbar

Mein zweiter Piraten-Band "Piratenkapitän" ist nun nach und nach auf den verschiedenen Plattformen für Druck und eBook verfügbar. Ab heute auf Smashwords.com. Der erste Band kommt im Laufe des Wochenendes hinzu.

Halt stehenbleiben! Wait what is German doing in this blog, verdammt noch mal?

Long time no hear, almost six weeks. This happens when you write and edit and edit and edit. But now it's done: my second installment for my young-adult novel Piratenkapitän is ready to get out to print. Piratenwhat? Piratecapitain! Sorry, no English translation for this book. So, what is this all about all of a sudden? Here is the official explainer:
I write in English and German and enjoy both. Don't ask me why, no clear answer. But the clear answer why the Pirate-YA-novels are written in German is simple: so that my boys can read it while they are young. They are the target audience for this one, not the crime-book lovers out there in the world. When I started publishing one-and-a-half years ago, I divided my writing identity into two: Alex Ames was taking care of English crime, Alex Bernhard stepped in for German young adult books. But what I hadn't thought about: there is work involved to keep two sets of promotional identities alive: two things of everything, webpages, Facebooks, Twitters, e-mail...  Enough now of that. To simplify my writing life it will from this book on run under one flag: Alex Ames.