Book review: Void Star by Zachary Mason

With Void Star, Zachary Mason delivers a cyberpunk thriller follow-up to his debut The Lost Books of the Odyssey that you can just as well file under literary fiction. The novel is an examination of the connectedness technology has brought us, and the relationship we humans have with that technology. Existential questions arise, and in Void […]

Book review: Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang

With Sour Heart, poet Jenny Zhang is making her prose debut. The collection of short stories is composed of several loosely interlinked tales centered around the lives of Chinese-American teenage girls in New York City. It’s also the first publication by Lenny Books, a Random House imprint run by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner. Self-proclaimed voracious […]

March Mono Press launched

We’ve finally launched our own digital publishing agency March Mono Press. We offer custom solutions around writing and editing, design and layout, illustration and data visualization and ebook distribution. Alexandra Sternin will cover design, illustration and everything visual, while I focus on writing, editing and everything technical around ebooks and publications. Together, we have more […]

Booktrip Barcelona travel guide published in English

Jakob writes - Booktrip Barcelona City Guide

Booktrip has published the English version of my Barcelona travel guide as an ebook. The translation was done by yours truly. The ebook is now available in English and German as PDF or Amazon Kindle digital download. Barcelona is an incredible and inspiring city, and I’ve come to be a Barcelover and call this place my home. The […]

Contact form fixed

Apologies everyone, I had a bug in my contact form which was preventing form submission. I’ve fixed the bug and the contact form is working again now. The issue was with the API keys of the Google reCAPTCHA. I am using the Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin, which is working fine otherwise – except for […]

Top 10 movie adaptations of literary fiction

Jakob writes: Top ten movie adaptations of literary fiction

A very subjective look at art Recently, BBC Culture polled 177 film critics from 36 countries to find the best movies of recent memory. Or, more precisely, the 21st century’s 100 greatest films. They named David Lynch’s surreal masterpiece Mulholland Drive from 2001 as number one. The idea of the BBC editors was that such lists […]

To NaNoWriMo or not to NaNoWriMo

Top Five Pros and Cons of National Novel Writing Month You know you’re a writer if the end of October fills you with a certain kind of eagerness and trepidation: NaNoWriMo is upon us. That’s short for National Novel Writing Month, a stunt where writers the world over try to pull off churning out 50,000 […]

Booktrip Barcelona city guide published in German

I have written a Barcelona city guide, and it has finally been published as an ebook! So far only the German version is available, with an English translation soon to follow. Barcelona is an incredible and inspiring city, and I’ve come to be a Barcelover and call this place my home. The sea, the Mediterranean cuisine, the climate […]

Hello world!

Dear reader, this site Jakob writes came to be as a portfolio website to showcase my work and writing samples. I originally planned to host a blog externally on Medium, but when I found this great WordPress theme Independent Publisher, I instantly liked its look and layout (inspired by Medium) and decided to include the […]