Michael Bresser: I think the development of information technology is a blessing for authors
Who are you and in which way do you work with books?
I’m Michael Bresser and write alone and together with Martin Springenberg funny novels. Our common Dieter-Nannen-crime-series is published by Ullstein. Until now three books are available. Dieter Nannen, a company clerk from Essen, inherits a farm deep in the middle of Münsterland, in the lowlands of northwestern Germany. Unfortunately, the farm has no agro-economical assets aside from exactly one pig and an uncertain quantity of rabbits. How to earn a living then? Why not as a private detective? All right then, and he even gets a case right away: he is to observe a doctor’s daughter, who has been skipping school and is apparently involved in a drug scene. When the girl is found dead on the same day, Nannen has the feeling that it might have been better to have passed on this case…
We’re looking at the world from an angle of humour and irony. In July I published my novel “Bestseller” with the wannabe-author Horst Stengel on his hard way to fame. This book is a funny portrait of the generation of people above thirty trying to live their dreams.
How do digital media and the Internet change your work?
Without internet I probably wouldn’t have published a book. In 2002 we published our first novel “Schafe & Killer” by Books on demand. Because it sold very well on Amazon (more than 4000 copies) a big publisher recognized our work. In the meantime they have printed three of our novels. Other books are in work. We advertise our books via internet. This is cheaper and more efficient than printing ads in newspapers. In the meantime Martin Springenberg and I live 250 miles away from each other. Therefore we exchange our texts only via e-mail. This is easier than sending 200 pages by mail. My father was also an author. He wrote his stories with a mechanical typewriter. When he pressed a wrong key, he had to type the complete page once again. I don’t know if I would be patient enough to work in that way. I think the development of information technology is a blessing for authors.
What is a typical problem in your work you would like to have a solution for?
I would appreciate if I could easily understand google ranking. Then I could reach more exactly my target group.
Where can we find you on the Internet?
My homepage
My Twitter account
My Facebook fanpage
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