Tell them, my song.

In case anybody’s wondering, yes, I’ve been working on Endnacht. I’ve written some stuff, but more importantly, more and more story fragments and scenes became visible to my inner eye and began to take shape. Characters emerged, atmosphere is building. I hope the whole thing will finally get a real heartbeat and a life of its own. It’s the first time in years that I’m seriously touching the keyboard for fictional writing again. I was afraid that part of me had already died and would never come back.

I won’t post any fragments or details at this time. Let’s just say that a character appeared on the set that a certain Heavy Metal band wrote one of their most famous songs about, and let’s say that this character will play a slightly alternate role in Endnacht than he did in the real world, or more precisely, he will do even more evil in the book than his real historical version had actually done (if that’s even possible). The character and what he is about to do in the novel are there to get some historical background to what will happen later in our present time.

I think genre fans will really love it, and non-genre fans will call me ugly names for it. It’s going to be something really, really sinister.

Back to playing with my toys now. Stay tuned for more – and learn some German; I’m afraid that I have to write this book in my mother tongue. I still don’t feel ready to write fiction in English. Sorry.

“I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,” Jobs said. “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”

Isn’t that interesting? Android Inc. was founded in the year 2003 – that is FOUR YEARS before the original iPhone was introduced. Google bought the company in 2005, which is still TWO YEARS before the iPhone was introduced. According to several sources on the web, Android was even offered to Apple but apparently Apple was not interested. However, evil tongues might wonder how many ideas Apple took from that sales presentation and put it into their own iOS later. Just like they took Android’s notification system and introduced it as a new feature in iOS 5.

It’s amazing that Jobs again boasted about how others stole HIS product, although that other product has a longer development history than his own. But that’s the kind of marketing that Apple has always used for its products. “We cost more, but we’re the original and everybody else steals from us.” It’s amazing that this silly old lie still works so well with their target audience.