Kurt Aerden over boeken / on books

Coming up… ten previews to my novella. Some will contain a short bit of text, others are just mood pieces.

Vanaf nu… tien previews bij de novelle. Sommige bevatten een kort stukje tekst, sommige dienen gewoon als sfeerbeschrijving.

Een nieuwe pagina op mijn Tumblr… eentje over mijn verhalenbundel “Enkelgeur”. Bovenaan vindt u de link. (Maar nu u dit toch leest, hebt u zich al afgevraagd wat er gebeurt als u “/centrum” intypt achter de url van deze tumblr-account?)

(English: I’ve just added a new page to my Tumblr account. It tells you more about the collection of short stories I’ve published. Albeit in Dutch.)

So… after I guess about 20 months I finally managed to get that Tumblr account active. Nicely done. Next up is a good plan: I’m thinking of how to create these pages into something that may look coherent for once. Give a couple of days (hopefully fewer than 680 this time) and the new look/site will become quite active.

I can only apologize. I think this Tumblr will be mainly used to talk about (and promote) my books. And the downside of that… I write in Dutch. One day I may be tempted to publish in English, but now let’s just try and get a foot down in the Dutch speaking territories first, no?

In 2008 I published a collection of short stories called Enkelgeur. I also published a short story in a collection of love stories and poems called 1001 Liefdes (1001 loves), which was published in 2010 and allowed me to perform in Bruges. I was working on a second book, a genuine novel, but I was able to work on a textbook. It allowed me to get a decent pay as well as do something about all those terrible textbooks I used to know, so while it was hard to lay my new book aside, it wasn’t unbearably hard. Now it’s time to go back to my book. I can’t wait…