Hey everyone, Dana here with I believe the third Wanted Adventure YouTube video of 2019.
If you haven’t seen the first two videos yet, I will link them down in the description
below and up there in the little i in the corner.
Back in December I announced that a book I had written was getting published and on December 17
that happened, my new book
"You go me on the cookie!": Learning Deutsch – mein abenteuerlicher Weg
it's available. As of December 17 available as pip...piperback?
As paperback and ebook, and in December I saw a lot of interesting questions about my book,
and so today in this video I thought I would try to answer some of them in a little
book Q&A, but first I want to say:
thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you.
Really there are not enough thank yous.
Thank you so much for your positive engaging exciting reception of my book.
Thank you for all the warm wishes.
Thank you for all the amazing feedback and comments about how excited you also were about
reading the book.
And then thank you so much for all the great feedback during or after reading the book.
Really thank you. Thank you thank you thank you thank you.
Thank you. I’m so excited for more people to find out about the book and read the book in 2019.
I can’t wait.
Thank you so much for helping make the launch of my new book so exciting. Thank you.
Okay, so I will start the Q&A in a second, but first another thing that I wanted to mention
is that over the last bunch of weeks I have been giving some interviews and that has been
really exciting also really interesting.
Different interviewers have, of course, asked different questions
and interviewed from different angles.
And I will link a few of those interviews down in the description box below.
Including my interview with...in English, so an interview in English
with The Bittersweet Life Podcast,
a podcast that I have been listening to for I think about four years.
And so I was really excited to actually be on the podcast myself.
A German interview that I did with the Sprachmagazin Sozusagen on Bayern 2 and another German interview
I did with Sebastian Sonntag in his Dein Sonntag show on Deutschlandfunk Nova.
And then also 5 Fragen an Dana Newman von We Love...wait I switched into German.
So it's 5 questions on Dana Newman from We Love Books, 5 Fragen
an Dana Newman by We Love Books.
And the questions for that are in German, but I gave my answers in both English and German.
And then an interview that I did with Andrea from the blog Lesen in Vollen Zügen.
Andrea and I met at a cafe to do the interview and we actually ended up doing the interview
in English, for some reason we ended up chatting together in English.
And then she translated what we talked about into German, so
great job Andrea, thank you for that.
And now onto the Q&A.
Starting with I think the two questions that I really saw being asked the most.
Will the book be published in English and will there be an audiobook of the book coming out?
And for both of those questions I have to say I don’t really have a very exciting
answer right now at this point because my answer is I just don’t know.
I would love for an English version of the book and for an audiobook to be published,
but right now, as of filming this video on...what day is it?
January 17, 2019 there are just no concrete plans to tell you about.
Right now that’s all I’ve got! A big I don't know. We'll have to see.
When talking about "You go me on the cookie!" in my videos, I have often referred to it
as “my new book”, and then I saw a good bit of questions like wait, what?
Your “new” book. But what is your old book?
And that would be "Found in Prague."
Back in 2012 I self-published "Found in Prague."
You can still find information about the book online, but unfortunately right now it is
out of print and no longer available.
Maybe one day that will change. Again, I don't know.
We’ll just have to see what the future holds.
But the interview with Andrea from Lesen in Vollen Zügen that I mentioned earlier went
into a little bit more detail about my experience writing "Found in Prague."
Another question that I saw was: are you going to sign books where I live?
If you follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or if you saw I believe my very first YouTube
story that I put out on December 17, I have gone to a few bookstores and signed some copies
of my books, but those were not really like book signing events per se.
For those, I simply went to the bookstore, signed some copies of my books, and then left
them there for people to come and buy.
But I would definitely love to do actual book signing events.
So where it’s announced in advance and I would go to, for example, maybe a bookstore
or a library and sign books, but maybe also with a reading beforehand.
Yeah, I would definitely love to do some of those and hopefully I will have a chance to
do some events like that in 2019.
If you want me to do a book signing in your area it could be helpful if you let a bookstore
near you know that "You go me on the cookie!" is a thing and that you would like to do a
book event with me and my book.
And then, yeah, we'll have to see what happens.
We'll have to see what the future holds.
I feel like that is a common thread of my answers so far in this video.
We'll have to see what the future holds.
Another question: why didn't you write the book in German?
So yeah, as I showed in this video that went out on December 17, I wrote my original manuscript
for the book in English and then it was translated into German.
But why didn’t I just write it in German in the first place?
Well for one I think because if I had done that, I might still be working on the first
draft of the book.
So I write a lot slower in German than in English, which I guess makes sense.
And also at this point I can speak a lot of German, I can understand a lot of German.
Sometimes I watch movies in German, TV shows, stand-up comedy even.
And I understand them. I think.
But I still feel like I am able to be more creative in English.
Another question that I saw was where can we buy the book and going along with that
is it available in the U.S.?
So in Germany and I believe also in Austria and Switzerland if I’m not mistaken,
you can get the paperback book at bookstores.
And also order it from many different websites online.
I have seen the book at a lot of bookstores here in Germany, which has been really exciting.
Um, so yeah, sometimes you can just walk into a bookstore and sometimes they will have the
actual book right there, but if they don’t have the book there, they can order it for
you and then you can come back and pick it up from the bookstore once it’s there.
And as far as getting ahold of the paperback version in the U.S. I know that my parents,
for example, they simply ordered the paperback version of the book from Amazon.de and had
it shipped to them in the U.S. and that worked fine for them.
The ebook version is also available on Amazon.de, Amazon.com, and all other international Amazon
pages as the Kindle Edition.
And you can also get an ebook version of the book from other websites as well.
So yeah, I hope that helped answer those questions.
And the last question that I’m answering in this Q&A video is:
are you going to publish another book?
I would love to publish another book.
Again, though, as of filming this video I don’t have any concrete information about
when or if or when I will publish another book.
At this particular moment I would say I've got most of my book thoughts on this current
book and trying to get the word out about this book.
But yes, I would really like to publish another book in the future as well.
We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see what the future holds. We'll see what the future holds.
But yes, I would like to publish another book in the future.
So my question for you is: speaking of creativity in a particular language, what language do
you feel the most creative in?
Is it your native language or another language that you learned?
Yeah, what language? Please let me know in the comments below.
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More fun stuff down here.
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And until next time, auf Wiedersehen!