Mira Valentin

The author Mira Valentin 2018

Mira Valentin (born April 9, 1977 in Wertingen , actually Regina Käsmayr ) is a German journalist , high fantasy , urban fantasy , crime and non-fiction author .

biography

Mira Valentin and her cosplayers at the Leipzig Book Fair 2018

Regina Käsmayr attended high school in Wertingen after primary school until she graduated from high school. From 1996 to 1998 she was a trainee with the Catholic Sunday newspaper Rottenburg-Stuttgart and completed an apprenticeship at the Catholic School of Journalism ifp in Munich. As a part-time job she trained as a riding instructor and worked for half a year as a riding instructor during riding and music holidays in Denmark. In 2000 she became editor of the equestrian magazine Cavallo . In 2001 she switched to X-MAG , a youth magazine in the Catholic Media Association , as an editor , and in the course of her work there, she traveled to over 30 countries for international reports. As an author, she still draws on the experiences and impressions she gained today. Käsmayr has been working as a freelance journalist and book author since 2007.

The author lives with her family in Dautphetal, Hesse .

Career as an author

In December 2015 her debut, the urban fantasy book series Talente , appeared under the pseudonym Mira Valentin , published by Carlsen Verlag under the label Bittersweet, later Impress, as an e-book and in March 2016 as a paperback . In March 2017, Valentin self-published the first part of the Enyador saga , the second part was published as an e-book in December of the same year and as a paperback in January 2018. The first two books in the Enyador series - "The Legend of Enyador" and "The Guardians of Enyador" - were published as audio books (read by Robert Frank , produced by Audible Studios ) in late 2018 and early 2019 . Volumes 3 and 4, The Flames of Enyador and The Legacy of Enyador , appeared in April and May 2019.

The Enyador series is currently being translated into the Korean language and will be published by Silence Books in South Korea in 2019.

The author received the "Kindle Storyteller Award" for self-publishers at the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair for her youth book Der Mitreiser und die Überfliegerin .

Another crime thriller by the author appeared in March 2019 with HOCHDORF - Hasse Your Neighbor , this time under the pseudonym Kim Roberts .

She is known in the authoring scene primarily for her striking cosplays at book fairs and readings. Together with a number of readers, she usually appears in public as one of her book characters.

The Weltenbauer³ group of authors

Together with the fantasy authors Sam Feuerbach and Greg Walters , Mira Valentin forms the authors' association Die Weltenbauer³ .

Works

As Regina Käsmayr

• Strom - a Swabian crime thriller - Shaker Media 2008, ISBN 978-3-940459-53-4 .
• Horses in the playpen: planning aids for species-appropriate keeping - with Sigrid Koch, Shaker Media 2009, ISBN 978-3-86858-011-2 .
• Gymnastic horses: easy dressage in the great outdoors - BLV Buchverlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-8354-0914-9 .
• Annerscht: A life with Contergan - with Gunhild Krämer-Kornja, Books on Demand 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-0215-7 .

As Mira Valentin

• The fellow traveler and the high-flyer. - LAGO, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-95761-183-3 .

The talent series

• The secret of talents . Bittersweet, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-551-30053-9 .
• The alliance of talents . Bittersweet, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-551-30054-6 .
• The war of talent . Bittersweet, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-551-30055-3 .
• The fate of talents - Prequel - Impress, Hamburg 2017

Enyador saga

• The legend of Enyador - Selfpublishing, Dautphetal 2017, ISBN 978-3-7431-1760-0 .
• The Guardians of Enyador - Selfpublishing, Dautphetal 2018, ISBN 978-3-7460-6917-3 .
• The Flames of Enyador - Selfpublishing, Dautphetal 2018, ISBN 978-3-7528-0959-6 .
• The Chronicles of Enyador - Spin-Off to the Enyador Saga - Selfpublishing, Dautphetal 2018, ISBN 978-3-7460-4449-1 .
• The Legacy of Enyador - Selfpublishing, Dautphetal 2019, ISBN 978-3-7481-7293-2 .

Viking saga

• Nordblut 1: Wolves Like Us - Selfpublishing, 2020, ISBN 978-3-749-47105-8 .

The Keloria saga

(As co-author with Kathrin Wandres)

• The whisper of the forest - Impress, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-551-30128-4 .
• The murmur of the mountains - Impress, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-646-60481-8 .

The light splinter saga

(As co-author with Erik Kellen)

• Volume 1 Windherz - Selfpublishing, 2019, ISBN 978-3-748-11216-7 .
• Volume 2 Flammenklinge - Selfpublishing, 2020, ISBN 978-3-749-48002-9 .

As Kim Roberts

• HOCHDORF - Hate Your Neighbor - Selfpulishing, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7386-1747-4 .

Audiobooks as Mira Valentin (Download)

Enyador saga

• The legend of Enyador - read by Robert Frank , Audible Studios 2018, 9 h 52 m
• The Guardians of Enyador - read by Robert Frank, Audible Studios 2019, 10 h 08 m
• The Flames of Enyador - read by Robert Frank, Audible Studios 2019, 10 h 10 m
• The Legacy of Enyador - read by Robert Frank, Audible Studios 2019, 13 h 34 m

More audio books

• The fellow traveler and the high- flyer - read by Julian Horeyseck , Audible Studios 2017, 8 h 49 m
• The whisper of the forest - read by Jeremias Koschorz and Edith Stehfest , Impress Audio 2018, 7 h 52 m

Awards

• Caritas Journalist Prize Baden-Württemberg for a report about street children in Stuttgart (1997)
• Catholic media award for a report on the mentally ill in West Africa (2003)
• Golden stirrup (3rd place) for a specialist article on horse legs (2012)
• 2nd place in the "Best German-speaking Debut Authors" at LovelyBooks (2016)
• Winner of the Kindle Storyteller Award 2017 with "The fellow traveler and the high-flyer"
• Winner of the SERAPH 2020 with "Windherz" together with Erik Kellen in the category "Best Independent Title".

Web links

• Literature by and about Regina Käsmayr in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website Mira Valentin
• Website Regina Käsmayr

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carlsen Verlag: Carlsen Verlag, Mira Valentin. Retrieved April 17, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Mira Valentin: Mira Valentin and her cosplayers. Retrieved April 17, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Lovelybooks: Lovelybooks, Best German-speaking Debut Authors 2016. Lovelybooks, accessed on April 17, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Frankfurt Book Fair: Mira Valentin wins the Kindle Storyteller Award 2017 with “The fellow traveler and the high-flyer”. Press release on presseportal.de, October 12, 2017, accessed on October 13, 2017 . 
5. ↑ The winners of the SERAPH 2020 literature award have been announced! In: Buecherreport.de 2020, accessed on May 9, 2020 (winners of the SERAPH 2020 literature prize have been determined)