As authors, we sit in our little room.
We think and dense design, and discard and we hope and fear, that our text may also like someone. We stare longingly every day again and again in our mailbox and when we are among the lucky ones who have already published, is yet to add the daily view on the Amazon rankings. And both, PO Box and Amazon are wonderfully suited us to mock us laugh, make us small, and to show us that we are nothing. Nothing. And also still alone.
But then comes what I was able to enjoy this weekend:
A meeting of more than twenty children's and youth book authors in Hamburg! And it was wonderful!
could very first evening I finally once colleagues Tom Finn meet you in person and kidnap me with Gabriele Gfrerer in the depths of the fantasy world can be. The depths of the hill district in Hamburg, we have also met in passing, the evening was a thoroughly successful. Still in the S-Bahn exchanged Gabi and me from plot ideas we had in the hotel room until late continued into the night long I do not so lively, so free in my mind so capable of Rumspinnen, dreaming, plotting, and stories (s) found.
was the next day then our big meeting here and it continued with the exchange of ideas, projects, as well as writer's block, tax returns or vexatious requests for changes and rejections from publishing houses.
And it felt so good to see and hear that you are not alone with his writing life, but that we sit still all somehow in the same boat.
It was exciting, one way or another colleague or colleagues to know personally, were exchanged copies and listings passed around. In short, it was a thoroughly enjoyable meeting the children's book authors. And in a
we were finally all agree: We have the most wonderful job in the world!
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