Stephanie Laimer-Read

Stephanie Laimer-Read grew up in Bremen, northern Germany. After living in Belgium and East Anglia, United Kingdom, she is now back in Bremen. She loves reading and writing (especially fantasy), travelling, music, horses and languages. Her favourite authors include Sir Terry Pratchett, Tom Holt, Bertolt Brecht, Martin Millar, Virginia Woolf, Kurt Tucholsky, Joachim Ringelnatz, Christian Morgenstern, Bill Bryson and many others.
Stephanie's first novel Berlintoxication is a gaslight romance about love, magic and violence, a sinister fantasy set in Berlin in the 1880s. She has also written an Agatha Christie parody, The Mystery of the Second Cucumber, and the urban fantasy story Change. Any comments, questions, reviews and Facebook shares or likes are more than welcome. Stephanie would love to connect with other authors and learn more about their styles, the subjects they like to write about and the things that inspire them.

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• Untruths on May 03, 2014
  
  A moving and fascinating story - it would be interesting to hear more about the background and what happened afterwards.
  
• About a Bird: Poems From Jerry the Bird on June 01, 2014
  
  Wow - dark stuff. Perplexing, somewhat shocking and bizarrely funny.
  
• Terug van vakantie on Feb. 03, 2017
  
  A bizarre story, gripping and with a shocking ending. I enjoyed it.
  
• Vengraaiers en Tulpentrollen, Reisgids voor Magisch Nederland, onder redactie van Tais Teng on June 22, 2017
  
  I really enjoyed this book. In a nice magic realism style, it describes the multiple magic creatures that inhabit the Netherlands: trolls, monster cats, a weed god, a dangerous Punch and Judy show... This is a great idea, and it works well. The stories feature a number of different styles, sometimes humorous, sometimes bizarre, sometimes unsettling, giving the book a pleasant diverse range. You will probably appreciate the book most if you know the Netherlands well because it contains plenty of local flavour, but if (like me) you are not so familiar with the country, it is still very enjoyable. My one criticism is layout-related: in the version I read (pdf), most of the links to the chapters in the table of contents didn't seem to work. This could be improved. It is, however, a very minor point.