Oh, sorry, Rick.
I can’t clear this up.
It’s a translation out of my last book of a trilogy. To have it unclear is on purpose.
I choose this part, cause it is for one the part I wrote last, just a few weeks back and two, it’s what hit me at times.
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I see now. It’s an intriguing part for sure, makes you wanna know more about what’s going on
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I’ll bite you…and you will never be the same -.-
I’m sure of it
:3
My first encounter with Linkin Park
Never ever in my life I wanted kids.
For one there was my upbringing, my history. Never thought I could be a good parent.
Second, I didn’t enjoy entertaining children. I always said, give me a pup, it’s one year of work and then you are done.
So I wasn’t reckless, on the contrary. But even the safest birth control method has its failures.
I got pregnant in 2001 and it turned my whole world. Not even upside down. It changed just everything.
Never expected to feel and love so strongly, be ready to give everything up for this little one, protecting it with my own life.
But also my world got really small.
Diapers, breast feeding, teething, sleep deprivation, laughing, fever, cuddling, first steps, a secend (wished for) baby …
When I read something it was books about vaccination, Michel Odent to primal health or the great Jesper Juuls competent child and so on.
My internet activities were looking on eBay for child clothing or visiting parenting forums.
We were the first in our circle of friends with children. My husband wasn’t much home. So I was mostly alone in this small children world.
To not totally get lost in it, I started to keep a few sheep and tried to find some time for writing. With all this, I was tired and exhausted a lot.
In the evening when the kids were finally sleeping and all chores done, I found maybe time for one episode Friends, Gilmour Girls, Buffy or Angle. We had a DVD player now and I started watching the original with subtitles. But had to play back often and switch in german, cause my English was still terrible.
It wasn’t a bad life, on the contrary. It was exactly what I wanted, especially for the kids. I chose this, would still choose it.
But sometimes, I felt so prisoned, so frustrated, so closed in.
And I could get mad over really small things, explode in yelling.
I remember once smashing a bowl with spaghetti of the table, against the wall. Tomato sauce everywhere. Crying kids, sobbing me.
I can’t stand myself sometimes, never could, and having the children ALL THE FUCKING TIME around this me. Arg.
And there Linkin park saved me!
It was Minutes To Midnight, the one album I choose from all the music on a external data from a friend.
In this seldom moments, where I was alone, especially in the car. Turning the speakers to the highest volume possibly without cracking. Getting my head blown of by this music! Even so I didn’t understand the lyrics, yelling along as loud as I could!
It so isn’t an understatement that Linkin Park helped me keeping my sanity!
And I already told of some reasons why I still needed till 2018 to realise what exactly had hit me back then in 2007, The band of my life!
But I think the biggest reason is that I just then, in 2018, really left this ‘I am a mother in one life and a hard working shepherd in the other’ world. Finally looking at me again. Who am I, what do I like, going out on concerts again.
It’s like surfacing the water after a long deep dive. Finally some air, sun, clear vision.
How much this me now has to fight to just be, you all already know.
And how much Linkin Park is there for me too, again!
Thank you all!
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Today I got the final draft of my book cover 
The wolf chronicles
Narla, the rootless
Narla would leave.
This decision is freeing. It takes an invisible weight but still it also brings pain. She looks at her companions: Like a shadow is the wolf by her side, pressing against her.
And of course Tirra - from nun to whore, from master thief to bodyguard. Will she ever stand herself?
On the quest to find her past and a place in a world full of old secrets of ring animals and sorcerers, Narla has finally to make a decision: Did she really want to know everything about herself?
What do you think?
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I looooove the cover! 
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Oh my gosh, this is amazing! What is your story about and also the target audience? I hope there will be an English version! I also loved your Linkin Park experience here and how much their music helped you find yourself again 
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Beautiful cover Anna!
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Looks like it could be a videogame cover.
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Thank you @Lilyope 
Wow! Thank you
It’s fantasy and I translated the teaser text
I think you can put it in the category of young adult fantasy.
And I would have said, more for girls all ages, cause the main characters are female.
But my son and brother liked it too.
It’s a dream 
Thank you
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Why’s that funny? lol
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Donno
Never thought about a video game.
But I have actually no idea cause I never game.
To me it looked like it could work for some kind of open-world fantasy or MMO.
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What does ring animals mean? I’m picturing His Dark Materials (but only because I’m so familiar with this world). Who is Narla - a witch?
Great choice. I can’t do fantasy very well unfortunately, but one of my writer friends is amazing at fantasy. I appreciate the talent to take on such a difficult and complex genre! Good luck with the book.
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That’s on her to find out. She didn’t remember her past.
It’s a world, I created.
A sorcerer is conected with a ring to an animal, his ring companion.
And oh, Narla has a wolf as a friend.
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Sounds very interesting! 
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