What This Blog is Already Doing to Me

I’m getting views from online places where I talked about my blog, and thus I feel compelled to add something more to this blog. Of course, I know I should offer informative content, delivered in an entertaining way and possibly make you laugh once or twice.

That’s something I will strive for. But today, I feel stumped. Do I tell you about my writing board? Or maybe about the book that started all this? Probably next time. Right now, I feel like sharing what starting this blog is already doing to me.

I could hardly sleep last night. After getting eight page views on Monday, when I could crow about the brand new blog on Facebook, Twitter and my above mentioned writing board, I got a single view yesterday, and that was from yours truly. I kept hitting the stats page until late at night. Repeatedly, I told myself not to be sad, I told myself that a blog takes time to take off and gain followers. One page view it was.

And it hurt.

So I posted some more about this shiny blog on my writing board (this time in public) and a few other boards I visit, and changed my signature there to include the blog link. And then I followed some advice from the aforementioned book (yes, I will tell you all about it!), and visited some blogs I like to read anyway. Except that this time I left comments and included a link to here.

Then I went off for a nap, to catch up on the sleep I missed. When I came back to the computer, I had seven views! (Thanks to you wonderful UK guys, you know who you are.) The exitement is back!

And tomorrow, I’ll tell you more. Promise!

As I post this, there are eight views! *wheeee*

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A New Beginning

Hannah Steenbock is my nom de plume. Some of you may already know me from other places online, but for everyone else, I’ll tell you a bit about myself.

Writing is my favorite way of passing time. And because I’m bilingual, I write my tales in two languages: German and English. So far, my short stories were mostly written in English, for a simple reason. People actually get paid for short stories in the English-language regions, whereas the proof copy is considered enough payment for most publishers in the German-language industry. On the other hand, all my novels have been written in German (I used to have a German agent, with exclusive novel rights …) However, this will change, as my English-language friends are clamoring to read my novels.

Translating stories is interesting, mainly in the Chinese sense of the expression. I’ll take you with me on this journey between two worlds, which hopefully will take us to lots of novel fun.

More about me here: Hannah’s Website, English

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Aller Anfang ist … neu

Hannah Steenbock ist mein Schreibname. Manche kennen mich schon, aber für alle anderen sage ich halt noch ein bisschen über mich.

Schreiben ist meine Lieblingsbeschäftigung. Und weil ich zweisprachig bin, schreibe ich auch in zwei Sprachen: Deutsch und Englisch. Bislang habe ich vor allem Kurzgeschichten auf Englisch geschrieben (immerhin bekommt man dafür bei amerikanischen Verlegern etwas Geld dafür, anders als in Deutschland, wo ein Belegexemplar reichen muss), dafür aber die Romane auf Deutsch. Das wird sich bald ändern, denn meine englischsprachigen Freunde wollen die Romane auch endlich lesen.

Das Übersetzen von Geschichten ist oftmals eine spannende Angelegenheit, und zwar im chinesischen Sinne. Ich hoffe, mit euch zusammen diese Reise zu unternehmen.

Mehr über mich und meine Schreiberei: Hannahs Website

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