I visited Germany with my husband in October, 2010, and when jetlag woke me in the middle of the night, I worked on revising Prized.  Today the German version of the novel, Das Land der verlorenen Träume (The Land of Lost Dreams), is released in Germany.  While I enjoyed visiting Cologne, Bonn, and Trier, what I liked most was the Mosel Valley, with its quaint villages and neighboring castles.  I can hardly be the first tourist to say so.

Happy American at Burg Eltz

I’m thankful that my first novel, Die Stadt der verschwundenen Kinder (The City of Missing Children), has been warmly received by readers in Germany, and I hope they enjoy the continuation of Gaia’s story.

Let me offer my thanks once more to Oliver Plaschka, my translator, for his painstaking work.  My novel is much longer in German than it is English, so I fear it was a monstrous job.