Jan Thie

Jantar@mstdn.social

I read, I write, I bake - and though I was born in Holland, I now live (with a cat) in a tiny village in the Czech Republic. (Before I moved here, I worked almost eighteen years in the largest hotel for the homeless in Holland. Before that, I worked freelance, as a translator, copywriter and editor, but I also tended bar and worked as a pub cook - and I taught English whenever I lived abroad and needed the extra cash.)  <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jan-Thie/author/B0841RPQBS?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jan-Thie/author/B0841RPQBS?ref=ap_rdr&store

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Post #2935295
Yesterday, I was playing while I should have been editing. I&#39;m thinking about making this the cover of the four-novella book I will self-publish in the next few days All the text - apart from the author&#39;s name - need to be written yet. The pic is one of the many I have taken over the years of the glowing coals in the wood burner. #selfpublishing #bookstodon
Post #2935294
@moesch Ein Besen – oder ein Flammenwerfer.
Post #2935293
More bread baking: 330g room-temperature water 12g fresh yeast, crumbled, 250g strong white bread four 250g strong wholemeal bread flour 10g salt 15g olive oil For the filling: 100 gr of rum-soaked fruit (a mix) and 50gr of lightly crushed hazelnuts. Baked for 30 minutes in a preheated oven at 200°C/492°F. #Bread #Baking #Hazelnuts #Rum #Fruit
Post #2935292
Another one now available at the Great Satan. I wish there were other ways for a digichallenged amateur to get his books published but for me the Kindle Publishing route is the only way that works. Mind you, I write to amuse myself and I see the publishing of these books as the end of a process and not as the start of a marketing/promotion phase. I&#39;d be crap at those. This is a collection of longish short stories; I&#39;ve never published one of those before, so that&#39;s fun....
Post #2935291
The cat had brought in another mouse and then dropped it immediately, which resulted in a near hysterical free-for-all: - the cat wanting to recatch the mouse - me wanting to rescue the mouse - the mouse being as acraid of its would be rescuer as its actual tormentor... ... but Lisa Snellings&#39;s art and I conquered - and the mouse got to run another day #Cat #Mouse #Art
Post #2935290
@whatzaname Thank you. I do try to make those a bit entertaining too.
Post #2935289
@whatzaname Ta!