Like many other authors I’m constantly thinking of new ways to promote my book – and one thing that I haven’t tried yet is to give it away! Shanghai Gold is of course still available at Amazon (including a Kindle Edition), Barnes & Noble and your local bookstores – and I very much would like [...]
…they just go on vacation.
Wow – first of all an apology if you’ve been coming by every now and then to look for updates. It’s been a busy couple of months, mostly filled with baby-related activities. Luke is doing well and every now and then he even lets us write a blog post now. Life with Luke is definitely [...]
As it turns out, writing a novel is much faster than editing and eventually publishing it… It’s been a couple of years since I’ve successfully finished NaNoWriMo with a mostly completed novel, and it took me all the way through the rest of the 2000s to edit my work. There was also the subject of [...]
It’s been a bit quiet on this blog lately, mostly due to complete exhaustion and sleep deprivation – ahh, the life of new parents… :) There are a few things to talk about, but before I get back to the usual blogging routine, here’s an update on my daily commute: It still rocks! Last Thursday [...]
On March 18 at 1:13am Luke Akira arrived, changing our lives forever. And while he is not always as peaceful as in the picture above, he has already enriched our existence beyond words. Welcome, Luke. We’ll have an amazing time together…
#haiku is a new little experiment for my Stories In Flight site – a mashup of Twitter and Flickr: The page searches for tweets with the #haiku hashtag and then visualizes the results by searching for each word in Flickr photos. It’s a evolutionary step from FlickrPoet, and while it removes the interactivity, it certainly [...]
Since we’ve built MapSkip a few years ago now, I’ve been steadily thinking of storytelling, its influence on the web and also the influence of modern technology on storytelling itself. A few days ago I had an idea that was simple enough to experiment with and since I needed a place for the pages, I’ve [...]
After ten years of living in San Francisco we have moved… not very far, just across the Golden Gate to Sausalito. It is at the same time a big jump and only a tiny little difference in our lives. When we open the front door now, gone are the hills, the constant fog, the noise [...]
After visiting my family in Germany we tacked on a few days for ourselves in Italy – we have been there together before maybe five or six years ago and it felt great to go back for a little bit more time in that wonderful country. We traveled by sleeper train across the Alps and [...]