Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a 21-year old poet and college student from Germany. I started writing when I was 14 and haven’t stopped since. I especially like writing poetry.
I have written and published one poetry collection just now.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my latest book is ‘Teenage Journal’. It is a collection of poems I have written between the ages of fourteen and twenty. It deals with growing up, loneliness, anxiety, depression and finding yourself.
I was inspired by my everyday life and feelings.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I always have a little book with me, because I find the best ideas come at the weirdest moments and I like to be prepared for them.
Writing poems is about emotions and I believe, that it is important to be in the right mind to capture them in poems, so I don’t have a schedule.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I’ve been influenced by many great authors. Poets especially. I love reading Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickens. But also some German poets like Goethe or Rilke.
What are you working on now?
I am working on my second poetry collection. It is still an early phase, but I want to address some topics – like love – I just touched on in my first book.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Since I have just published one book as of now. I have not established a perfect method to promote my book. But I found a lot of options on the web I like to try.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Well, I am a new author, so one advise I could give is: Just do it. Just write and take a chance. Self-publish if you can’t find a publisher, do it for yourself!
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
You never know if your book is a success. But first and foremost you should write and publish the book for yourself, especially as a beginner author to gain experience more than anything else.
And don’t be afraid to fail, learn from it.
What are you reading now?
the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur
What’s next for you as a writer?
I will take what I learned from my first book and use that to start working on my second poetry collection.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Pride and Prejudice from Jane Austen, Poetry Collection from Edgar Allen Poe, and probably a book about how to survive on a desert island.
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