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She loves to write feel-good novels

2022-05-21T06:28:20.700Z


She loves to write feel-good novels Created: 05/21/2022, 08:20 By: Ulrike Osman Katharina Korb writes love stories under her pseudonym Katie Spring. © Katharina Korb writes love stories under her pseudonym Katie Spring. Writing is more important to her than sleeping. At least when the ideas really want to get out of the head and onto paper. Katharina Korb (42), from Germeringer, spent a number


She loves to write feel-good novels

Created: 05/21/2022, 08:20

By: Ulrike Osman

Katharina Korb writes love stories under her pseudonym Katie Spring.

© Katharina Korb writes love stories under her pseudonym Katie Spring.

Writing is more important to her than sleeping.

At least when the ideas really want to get out of the head and onto paper.

Katharina Korb (42), from Germeringer, spent a number of nights in addition to work and family to finish her first book.

Germering - It's become a love story, settled in the feel-good novel category.

Why this genre?

"Because I like to read it myself," says the 42-year-old.

Crime fiction, thrillers and other heavy fare would just get on her mind too much.

"Honigküsse unterm Sternenzelt" is the name of her debut, which she published under the pseudonym Katie Spring.

The story takes place in Dubai.

The goal: the readership should be able to wallow in wanderlust and be kidnapped for an hour or two from the troubled present.

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"I had the idea for the story a few years ago," says Katharina Korb.

It's about a young woman who has had enough of men and only wants to concentrate on her career.

But as soon as the promising new job in a luxury hotel has started, distraction appears again in the form of the opposite sex.

In the face of war?

When the war in Ukraine began a few weeks before the planned release date, Korb wanted to stop the project.

"It seemed completely out of place to publish a book like this in this situation." But her environment encouraged her.

Right now it is important to be able to dream away from all the bad news.

Her success proves her right: The self-published book made it to 9th place in the “Love” category of a large online retailer in the first few days.

place of longing

The setting Dubai is also a place of longing for the author herself, which she has never visited before.

With a husband who is afraid of flying, only holiday destinations that can be reached by land come into question.

The author researched travel magazines and social media and even had an Instagram acquaintance read the manuscript.

She only pointed out that the numerous online meetings in Dubai that take place in the book are not common - a blemish that shouldn't carry much weight.

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In future, however, Katharina Korb wants to see the settings of her books herself.

She has just made a research trip to Bruges, "a great city", as the mother of a ten-year-old son thinks.

Part of its concept is that it deviates from the mainstream settings of England, Scotland, Ireland and Tuscany that are currently all the rage in feel-good fiction.

Online Editor

Most of the work on her books takes place at night.

During the day, the native of Stockdorf earns her bread and butter as an online editor at a shopping platform.

"You just need peace and quiet to write," says the author, admitting that she completely underestimated the effort involved in writing a book "on the side".

"Often enough I wanted to throw the manuscript in the wastebasket." But giving up wasn't an option.

For the 42-year-old, writing is more than a hobby - "it's a job and a calling."

Katharina Korb already knew that as a child.

She wrote her first love story in second grade, and even then she was already working with unusual locations and unusual heroes.

It was about the love between a mermaid and a merman.

"Unfortunately, I don't remember how the story ended," says the woman from Germeringer and laughs.

But what she still knows: Her German teacher gave her the grade 1 for it.

You can find more current news from the district of Fürstenfeldbruck at Merkur.de/Fürstenfeldbruck.

Source: merkur

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