dagger [ain't that a kick in the head] asked Monique S.:

Do you have any advice for aspiring authors?

Monique S. Hi Potatos,

first of all I see myself as an spiring author, too, so I don't know if my advice will be any good. One thing I always found worked for me is to write about things you know a lot about or have experience of. For example Princess of Lights simply lives from my own professional experience as well as my "Career" (giggles) as a trans woman.

A lot of my own history gets incorporated into the "real life" fiction I write. Foreign Influence deals with a real situation that arose in my birth town, Hamburg, shortly after the wall fell in Berlin and Germany was re-united. I have no experience as such as a police person, but I have friends who were "working girls" in St.Pauli and some, who run a theatre there, so I have a pretty good knowledge of the scene and i followed the problem in the papers. The story itself, of course is fictional, but there were several attempted invasionsfrom Russian Gangs right after the wall came down.

One thing that I have found helpful is to make friends with other authors. The title: The Princess of lights was the result of brainstorming on Discord with two other authors, my own idea wasn't anwhere near as catching, for example. You can also ask me direct questions, if you friend me here, if you like.

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