Stories that last.

Novel · Volume I

Königreich der schwarzen Steine

Cristina Horvat

What remains when everything you built your life on falls apart?

In a kingdom of black stones, Mara carries a light that even the deepest darkness cannot swallow. But when loss and betrayal shake the familiar world, the keeper must realise that not every wall offers shelter and not everyone close to her means well.

Between the shadows of the past and the call of a distant sea, a journey begins that demands more courage than any battle: choosing your own path.

A dark, poetic fairy tale about grief, self-determination and the quiet power of a new beginning.

The first volume of a trilogy.

Non-fiction

Die Managerin des Überlebens

Christin Hultsch

How love, structure and courage carry you through a cancer diagnosis.

Who holds those who hold everything together?

A cancer diagnosis changes more than one life. It turns a whole family upside down.

When her mother falls seriously ill, Christin Hultsch suddenly organises far more than her own day. She asks questions, takes decisions and keeps the threads together. Often far beyond her own limits.

Openly and without gloss she writes about fear, anger and being overwhelmed. About a health system in which relatives become managers themselves. And about a love that gives strength but offers no protection from exhaustion.

A personal book with orientation for relatives. About solidarity, your own limits and the strength to keep hope despite everything.

For everyone who is strong for others and needs support themselves.

Stories · Volume 2

Danke für nichts, ich nehme jetzt das Steuer.

Christin Hultsch

New stories about life, love and other adventures.

The wheel has been taken over. The chaos has stayed.

Anyone who thought peace would finally arrive after volume 1 has clearly underestimated my husband, pardon, my favourite person.

Between nocturnal nail-scissor massacres on innocent palm trees, legendary kitchen parties, one black four-legged friend, two cats and a man who gets me to boiling point faster than I can say “darling”, the perfectly normal madness enters the next round.

How do you manage to drive each other up the wall on a regular basis and still lead a happy, light relationship, without one of the two eventually seeing the inside of a prison cell?

With humour. With love. With a healthy dose of self-irony. And sometimes it also helps simply to keep your mouth shut.

Volume 2, because life is far from finished pulling our leg.

Children’s book

Doris und die Bonbontüte

Doris wishes for nothing more than friends. Could a bag of sweets help?

When she meets Willi Wagemut, an adventure begins full of courage, small wonders and one great discovery:

True friendship asks for no presents.

Non-fiction

Und jetzt?

Christin Hultsch

Why success does not bring happiness and what really counts.

You have achieved everything you set out to do. And now?

A Tuesday evening in a restaurant that was once out of reach. A deal that had been talked about for twenty years. And inside: nothing. With this scene begins a book about the question successful people rarely ask out loud.

Christin Hultsch shows that no personal failure lies behind it. Anyone who has practised for years parking feelings in order to reach goals unlearns how to feel them. And a mind set on striving further gets used to every success faster than one would like.

Sixteen chapters lead from recognising through understanding and feeling to deciding and living. Each one ends with questions and exercises to write in. Not a guidebook with ready-made recipes, but a book that turns uncomfortable in the right places.

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.”

Poetry · Haiku

33 Belichtungen des Dazwischen

Heike Hultsch

Haiku.

Thirty-three haiku. Seventeen syllables for what lies between the moments.