New Year, new book. Sounds as if I had been busy over the last months. First the publication of my new Troubleshooter thriller COVID Trouble, and today the announcement of my first full-length scifi action novel The Transport.

But looks are deceiving. COVID Trouble had its first word written in July 2020 with an aim of 50K words, whereas The Transport already started way back in 2019. From the point of complexity, The Transport was way more ambitious. I aimed for 120K words, put down 130k, split up onto four point of view main characters. With a book of that magnitude, everything takes longer. The conception, the writing, the editing, the external editor reworks, whew!

The additional challenge for this book: I wanted to try something new regarding marketing. So I had the mad idea to create an audio book version of The Transport, too, and publish it as a Podcast. Several lifes ago, I used to be a recording musician and had some idea about recording technologies, but the step from a MIDI sequencer on an ATARI ST1040 to Pro Logic X on the Mac was a big one. But with the help of a lot of YouTube tutorials I managed to set up the narration in an acceptable quality (I hope, you’ll be the judges).