Once in a while... Updates

Postings become rare for me after the promotional stuff around Brilliant Actors and my finalisation of the second installment of my YA novel "Piratenkapitän". So it is time to sit down again and crunch words and action:
T2, the second Troubleshooter book is in the making. This is a crazy one. I had put a lot of pre-structuring into the book and had intended to then run through it similar to "Troubleshooter": from A-Z. Man, was I wrong so far. I started at A and wrote down the first and most of the second act. Then I got bored by the middle and began experimenting. I wrote backwards, Chapter Z of the big finale and then Y,X,W... That was an interesting experience as I alway knew what to drive towards as the future was already cast in stone.
And then, when I reached the middle of the fourth act, I got bored again and started doing the middle of the third act. L, M, N...
Anyway, it's moving forward.

Two more days to go: Brilliant Actors promotion on Amazon - get it for FREE!

First day of my Brilliant Actors promotion on Amazon - two days to go. So far, Brilliant Actors made an impression on the global readership. On the screenshots you see a snapshots of US, UK, Australia and Germany, all in the double digit chart ranges! Way to go!

3 days of "free": Get your free edition of "Brilliant Actors" for Kindle on AMAZON from 17.-19. November

Need a read for the pre-Christmas season? Try "Brilliant Actors", the second installment of jewelry creator and part-time burglar Calendar Moonstone's adventures. Available for free in Kindle format for the next three days on AMAZON (17.-19. November).
This is the last to least chance to get a free book deal. From January onwards, Brilliant Actors will be no longer be exclusively available on AMAZON and will also appear on most other eTailer platforms like Smashwords, iTunes, Barnes & Nobles etc.
So, grab it while you can!

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.