Good day everyone,
I’d like to introduce myself briefly. I publish here under the author name Jens Paschmann (a pseudonym), primarily for reasons of privacy—not everyone around me needs to know what I write. My texts are adult literature and, depending on the topic, they may sometimes rub people the wrong way. If you’re open to that: welcome.
I was born in 1967 in West Germany, where I still live today, so English is a foreign language for me. I write my stories in German first, completely without AI. However, I do use AI for research and proofreading, because it is difficult to find suitable human beta readers who are both competent and have the time to correct my mistakes. Afterwards, the finished texts are translated into English using AI tools. So if you notice errors, please tell me—because mistakes can creep in at every one of these steps. Even though I read my translations once more myself, my language skills are nowhere near sufficient to keep up with a native speaker.
Professionally, I work in gastronomy, far from the literary world. I wrote my first story at the age of nine, wrote newspaper articles at sixteen, and later published stories in magazines—but only as an amateur, without earning any meaningful income from it. Those stories were mostly short stories. That changed during the pandemic. During lockdown I became so bored that an idea for a short story turned into an entire thriller series, which I published chapter by chapter on a website similar to SOL. Reader feedback motivated me to keep writing the series even after I was fully back at work. Unfortunately, the site was later shut down.
I do think it’s a shame when my stories—into which I have poured a great deal of my life’s energy—disappear without a trace. So I decided to publish them worldwide for free. On the sites so far, my stories have indeed found fans, but politics and technology are playing nasty tricks on us authors. Stricter censorship in many countries, AI panic with checks and the rigid rejection of texts, merely on suspicion that an AI might have written them, has led me to look for a new platform. Maybe SOL will be my new home.
And yes, I do like it when other people enjoy my stories. Have fun with my imagination!
JP