CR Scott

CR Scott at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2019)

CR Scott , civic Carina Regauer (* 27. September 1984 as Carina left in Neumünster ) is a German author , for its publishing independent of love and fantasy novels is known.

Life

CR Scott graduated from high school in Neumünster in 2004 and then trained as a media designer in Hamburg . A distance learning course in multimedia design followed from 2008 to 2010 . She then studied literature and history ( Master of Arts ).

Carina Regauer, nee Linke, is the great-grandniece of the writer Lilo Linke and the sister of the former panic bassist Christian Linke. She has been married since 2017 and now lives with her husband in Baden-Württemberg .

First publications

CR Scott at a reading in Landhauscafé Wasbek (2019)

According to his own information, CR Scott has been writing since she was 10 years old. Inspired by Sailor Moon , she wrote in the late 1990s, its first Fan Fictions to anime and developed an interest in Japan. The comic artist Viviane drew for the long-term web project. From 2006 to 2013 the author published novels, short prose, book reviews and comic scripts for the German manga scene under the artist name André Linke . Her works have been published by Carlsen Verlag , Verlag Dieter Born , the publishing division of Animexx , Computec Media and the German-Japanese Society Berlin, among others . For the start of her book series Crystal Yorkshire (Machtwortverlag) she was nominated twice for the German Fantastic Prize in 2007. As a result, she gave a laudation to bestselling author Markus Heitz at the award ceremony at the Book Fair and presented him with the award in the category Best Internet Site . At the end of 2013, the author changed her name to the gender-neutral short form An Lin and wrote fiction for teenagers and young adults that addressed Japanese culture without being limited to the manga scene. Until 2016, the author published romance novels with a Japanese reference and some fantastic elements in self-publishing under this pseudonym.

In 2016 and 2017, Carina Regauer also worked as a graphic designer and author for the publishing house Bast Medien GmbH under her real name . As part of this, she designed and set the secrets and calendar sheets published during this period and acted as art director for the magazine Women's History , for which she also wrote various articles and was involved in the photo editing.

Breakthrough and further work

Since 2017 the author has been publishing non-Japanese romance novels under the stage name CR Scott . The initials CR stand for her real name, Carina Regauer. With her debut novel (as CR Scott) Play My Game - a game for all the senses , which made it into the top 10 of the Kindle charts, she made her breakthrough as a full-time writer . Since then, CR Scott has successfully published contemporary romance novels. In August 2018 she entered the top 5 of the Kindle charts for the first time with Sweet Suffering . At the end of 2018, the first story was released in audio book version , Every Day Will I Kiss You And Touch , read by Lisa Müller and Inko Hartwiger and with intromusik by Christian Linke, Scott's brother. In March 2019, the author made her first appearance on the BILD bestseller list with her work Broke and Rich (entry position 3rd). Wicked Deal too - Do you dare? came on the BILD bestseller list in the week of publication in June 2019. After seven weeks, the novel was seamlessly replaced by CR Scott's follow-up work 10 Seconds of Love on the BILD bestseller list. At this point in time, at the end of July 2019, both titles made it into the recently introduced Amazon charts, which show the 20 best-selling works (e-books and books combined, but fiction and non-fiction books separately) for a week. In January 2020, the author came to number 1 on the Amazon charts for the first time with Waking up in Mr. Perfect's Bed .

In the first year and a half alone, CR Scott published 20 romance novels. In a blog article, she said that her productive writing behavior was due to her high consumption of manga.

From time to time the author continues to write fantastic love stories that can be assigned to both urban fantasy (example: When feathers fall , 2018) and high fantasy (example: roses and crystals , 2020).

Community projects

Every now and then, CR Scott collaborates with other writers:

In spring 2017, she and Vinya Moore published the joint novel Waiting for you . The work appeared before CR Scott's actual debut novel Play My Game - Game for all the senses and is based on a basic idea of ​​its co-author. Vinya Moore thus inspired CR Scott to write romance novels with American protagonists and alternating perspectives.

In early 2018, Scott's romance novel Job Wanted, Love Found appeared , in which the character Souta from Emily West's dilogy Unverhofft has a guest appearance. The scenes were written by Emily West. Around two years later, in early 2020, Scott and West published the collaborative dark romance work Liebe eiskalt . Shortly afterwards, Saving Mr. Right followed from the pens of the author duo.

Christian Linke, CR Scott's brother, designed a cover for the author and given it a title. Afterwards, after plotting together with her brother, Scott wrote the appropriate story for both. The result of this experiment is the novel Your heart stood still , published in February 2018 .

Together with Freya Miles , CR Scott brought out The VIP Room in September 2019 .

At the end of 2019, CR Scott's Broken Romance was released, a romance novel set in the same universe as Nancy Salchow 's Broken Moment . The protagonists of both works are sisters and appear in the other story.

Memberships and engagement

CR Scott is a member of the Montségur Authors' Forum , the Selfpublisher-Verband eV and the Romance Club, a network of romance novelists independent of publishers, which among other things organizes joint readings.

After CR Scott was on the preliminary jury for the German Self-Publishing Prize in 2019, she has been a member of the main jury of the successor award, the Self-Publishing Book Prize, along with Matthias Matting , Lena Falkenhagen and other authors, since 2020 . The endowed prize is awarded to selected professional self-publisher titles in three categories.

Works

→ Main article : CR Scott / works

Web links

Commons : CR Scott  - Collection of Images

• Literature by and about CR Scott in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about An Lin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about André Linke in the catalog of the German National Library
• CR Scott's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Panel discussion at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2019 with CR Scott, Mira Valentin and Sam Feuerbach
2. ^ Photo taken during the laudation to Markus Heitz
3. ↑ Example: Sylt secrets, p. 2 .
4. ^ Women's History 1-5, p. 94 .
5. ↑ CR Scott: Play My Game - Game for all senses, p. 4 .
6. ↑ Author biography on CR Scott's website ( Memento from May 22, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ BILD Germany of March 14, 2019, p. 4 .
8. ↑ BILD Germany of March 21, 2019, p. 4 .
9. ↑ Picture on CR Scott's Instagram account ( Memento from July 1, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ BILD Germany of June 20, 2019, p. 4 .
11. ↑ BILD bestseller list on bild.de from July 22, 2019 ( Memento from July 25, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ BILD bestseller list on bild.de from July 31, 2019 ( Memento from July 31, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
13. ↑ Amazon Charts from July 28, 2019 ( Memento from August 4, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ Amazon Charts from January 19, 2020 ( Memento from January 22, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
15. ↑ Lady's of Wonderland: CR Scott - Quality and Quantity - and what the two have to do with each other (accessed July 14, 2019).
16. ^ CR Scott: Job wanted, love found, p. 6 .
17. ↑ CR Scott: Your Heart Stood Still, p. 5 .
18. ^ CR Scott: Broken Romance, p. 259 .
19. ↑ Recording of a Romance Club reading
20. ↑ Facebook post on the German Self-Publishing Prize
21. ^ Jury portrait for the Self-Publishung Book Prize