Inca Gabriela Schmidt

Inka-Gabriela Schmidt, 2006

Inka-Gabriela Schmidt (born Räbiger, born October 15, 1959 in Hanover ) is a German specialist book and novelist. Her novels are in the genres of fantasy , romance and mystery thriller and are all set in our time.

Life

Inka-Gabriela Schmidt grew up as the second child of Fritz Räbiger and his wife Gertrud (née Lindemann) in Munich. In 1980 she passed the Abitur at the Elsa-Brandström-Gymnasium there , and in 1984 she graduated from the Munich University of Applied Sciences with a degree in communication design (Dipl. FH). The author has been married to Winfried Schmidt since 1985. She is the niece of the Berlin fireworker Gerhard Räbiger .

Profession and specialist publications

Schmidt is a lecturer for desktop publishing and a trainer at the private vocational school for media designers for digital and print in Munich, which belongs to Macromedia GmbH under the umbrella of the Macromedia Academy. Schmidt is also an examiner for media professions at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for Munich and Upper Bavaria. Together with her husband, she wrote articles for the computer magazine Macwelt . Schmidt translated and updated the specialist book Print Production Well Done for the Hermann Schmidt publishing house . In 2009 the same publisher published the cheat sheet, exam knowledge for media designers digital and print , a box with 660 flash cards, which Schmidt wrote together with her colleagues Herwig Horn and Henrik Wolf.

Fiction

With Kristallsee , a mystery thriller, her first novel was published by a publisher. The book is about a Cathar treasure hidden in a cave lake in the Pyrenees and the idea of using crystals as holographic data storage for human memories.

Schmidt belongs to the authors' association Ladys Lit and contributed a short story to two of the association's anthologies.

With Elfenkind , she started a series in the fantasy romance genre. In addition to love stories about various paranormal beings, the focus of the series is on a prophecy of the end of the world and the search for five rescuers who should prevent this. The first volume was published in March 2011, the second under the title Valentine in February 2012.

Schmidt treads a new path with angels' suffering . The novel is about Laura, who is a Nephilim , the daughter of Azaradeel, a fallen angel. Unaware of her parentage, she falls in love with a demon, not realizing that he wants to free his kind by sacrificing her blood on an altar in the sacred sculpture forest of Bomarzo .

With Parallelflucht , Schmidt has achieved an exciting combination of urban fantasy and fantasy romance.

Publications

Novels

• Quentin Tolle and the magic sword . Self-published, 2006, ISBN 978-3-000192531
• Crystal lake . Sieben-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-940235-25-1
• Elf child . Ubooks-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86608-127-7
• Valentine . Oldigor-Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-98147-643-9 ; After the closure of the Oldigor publishing house, new publication at BoD 2016, ISBN 978-3-73924-322-1
• Angel sorrow . Oldigor-Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-94369-716-2 ; New publication Nov. 2016 after the closure of the Oldigor publishing house
• Parallel escape . BoD, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7392-2936-2

Short stories

• Fairy dust. In: Elke Meyer (Ed.): December whispers. Fairytale and fantastic stories at Christmas time . Edition Ladys Lit. Aaronis-Collection, Aspach 2009, ISBN 978-3-936524-07-9
• Greed. In: Elke Meyer (Ed.): Blutsommer. Crime anthology . Edition Ladys Lit. Aaronis-Collection, Aspach 2010, ISBN 978-3-936524-17-8
• Love forever. In: Hot days - hot nights . Erotic short stories by various authors. Elysion-Books Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-96000-024-2

literature

• novum Nutzgraphik , Jan. 1988, Bruckmann Verlag, ISSN  0302-9794 , p. 36. Novum Design Collection for Unicef
• novumpress Briefbogen 2 , Bruckmann Verlag 1991, ISBN 3-7654-2349-1 , p. 247. Letter sheet design p. 247
• Reports on the art exhibition World of Realities , Memminger Kurier, August 20, 1997; and Allgäuer Zeitung, August 12, 1997
• The land of magicians is in the Allgäu , presentation of the author and her youth novel Quentin Tolle and the magic sword . Allgäuer Zeitung, September 9, 2006
• The Treasure of the Cathars , Presentation of Kristallsee , Allgäuer Zeitung, January 28, 2009; and Allgäuer Kreisbote, February 4, 2009
• Book review Elfenkind , LoveLetter Magazine No. 64, May 2011
• Vampire loves tender spirit , interview with the author and book presentation by Elfenkind , Allgäuer Zeitung, No. 119, May 24, 2011, p. 27
• Interview with the author and book presentation, Elfenschrift, issue 30 Summer of the Elves , June 2011
• Lustful fantasy creatures , book presentation by Valentine , Allgäuer Zeitung, No. 91, April 19, 2012, p. 31

Web links

• Internet presence of the author: inwisch , Das Elfenkind
• Presentation of the authors by the Hermann Schmidt publishing house
• Brief presentation at Literra
• Brief introduction to Fantasyguide
• Reviews of Elfenkind among others on Roter-Dorn , Art-Noir , Schreib-lust.de , buchcouch-forum.de
• Reviews on Valentine, among others, on book times , magical worlds ( Memento from January 28, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )