Wilfried A. Hary

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The German author Wilfried A. Hary (2009).

Wilfried Antonius Hary (born October 27, 1947 in St. Ingbert , Saar) is a German author who uses the pseudonyms WA Travers and Erno Fischer . He mainly writes science fiction , fantasy, dark fantasy, mystery, horror, thrillers and crime novels. Hary is one of the founding authors of the German science fiction series Star Gate - The Original .

Life

At the age of fourteen, the first stories (glosses, stories, articles) appeared in newspapers and magazines - Hary became a freelancer in the features section of a daily newspaper. He trained his writing skills through the then existing "school of writing".

He later trained as a journalist after studying speech training (focus: text interpretation, "... in order to, conversely, improve my ability to express myself as I want to be understood.")

In 1971 he made his debut with the science fiction novel Company Dunkelplanet ( Zauberkreis-Verlag ) under the pseudonym WA Travers. The first mystery novel appeared in 1975: In the Claws of the Demon (as WA Travers in the series Vampir-Horror No. 97, Verlag Pabel-Moewig ). Hary then worked for several SF and Mystery series, such as Gemini-SF ( Kelter-Verlag ), TERRA ASTRA and Atlan (Pabel / Moewig), Erde 2000 ( Wolfgang Marken Verlag ), Die Terranauten ( Bastei-Verlag ) . He also worked on many series outside of science fiction and, according to his own statements, has published over 500 novels to date, as well as some non-fiction books on nutrition and fitness, as well as countless stories and articles for the magazines Alt und Jung and Fantastisches Magazin SF-STAR .

Since the 1990s he has shown an increased commitment in the area of horror novels for women at Kelter-Verlag.

From 1986 onwards, WA Hary has been an editor and publisher himself. According to his own statements, he started selling the first e-books worldwide in August 1986 by offering novels on diskettes. At that time he did not call the product offered an e-book, but DISKOMAN (an artificial word consisting of DISKette and rOMAN). Initially, the sale took place through a software house, later Hary took over the production and delivery himself and for some time sold unrivaled and quite successfully. In the meantime, e-books (and audio books) published by him and z. Some of the self-written series are distributed on many popular platforms.

Since 1998, Hary has also been publishing print media and audio books in his publishing house Hary-Production , which, according to his own account, now amount to over 500 available titles, mostly from the areas of science fiction, dark fantasy, horror and thriller, including German Science, which has existed since 1986 Fiction series Star Gate - The Original .

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