Jens H. Altmann - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a German writer and translator. My published work includes several short stories published in the US and Australia, most notably the Midnight Sentinel series about a pulp-type superhero. As "Ashe Hyams," I wrote a novel in the German Torn series (a fantasy/horror series about a time-traveling superhero), published by Bastei.
Another novel, Return of the Ravager , is now available.
My horror novel Jahrmarkt des Grauens was published in August 2007.
Among my comics work are the serial Yesterday's Heroes for Visual Assault Press, Cyborg Assault Hamsters for 430 Comics and Berserker: The Wild Hunt , which is now online as a webcomic. I have also made other stories available online . Scoop , can be read at Drunk Duck.
As a translator for the languages German, English and Japanese, I work mostly in the field of manga and anime, on such diverse projects as, for example, (anime): Gundam Seed, GetBackers and Maison Ikkoku and (manga): Subaru, Magister Negi Magi and Spirit of Wonder. For a more exhaustive list, visit my website: JensAltmann.com .
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My Interests

Science fiction. Fantasy. Western. Comics. Novels. Non-fiction. History. Psychology. Science. Sociology. The past. The present. The future.

I'd like to meet:

Readers. Booksellers. Publishers. Editors. Reviewers. Agents.

Basically, you.

Music:

I've very broad tastes in music. I can enjoy opera (where I prefer Orff and Wagner) as well as musicals (my favorite being Man of La Mancha), movie scores (particularly John Barry) or even Eminem.

Movies:

People are frequently amused when I tell them that my favorite movies are Howard the Duck, Remo Williams and Galaxy Quest.But, yes, I know the difference between a movie I like and a good movie.

Television:

I don't watch television.

Books:

The five books that I couldn't live without are (in no particular order) Eiji Yoshikawa's Musashi, T.H. White's The Once And Future King, Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove, Lo Kuang-chung's Romance of the Three Kingdoms and James Clavell's ShÃ´gun

Heroes:

Stan Lee. Isaac Asimov. Robert A. Heinlein. HH Dalai Lama. Mickey Spillane. Robin Hood. Zorro. Phantom. Robert E. Howard. Dan Shocker.

My Blog

On the Desk

Look at my desk, ye mighty, and despair....Well, it's not that bad, but I'm quite busy.- I need to write a couple of movie articles for an entertainment magazine (paying work). They are due on July 1....
Posted by Jens H. Altmann on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:27:00 PST

Movies the World Does Not Need

2: Supermax, AKA the Green Arrow movie The story: Green Arrow is accused and convicted for a murder he did not commit. He is stripped of his secret identity and his weapons/gadgets, and incarcerated ...
Posted by Jens H. Altmann on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:24:00 PST

Movies the World Doesn’t Need

From here on in, I will in loose sequence talk about movies. Movies that have come to my attention. Movies that I am convinced the world does not need. 1: Death Wish It's fairly old news (as seen in...
Posted by Jens H. Altmann on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:06:00 PST

I Should Be Productive

It's not like I have nothing to do. An editor wants some revisions on articles. I need to wrap up the revisions of The Coldest Blood. I have some bills to write. There's an artist who has some input o...
Posted by Jens H. Altmann on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:33:00 PST

Novel in Progress: Coldest Blood Revisions

Phase one of the revisions is completed. I had printed out the manuscript and went over the printout with a pen, changing lines, changing words. Changing paragraphs. Deleting paragraphs. Adding chapte...
Posted by Jens H. Altmann on Mon, 26 May 2008 01:27:00 PST

Novel in Progress: Coldest Blood Revisions

Yes, I'm still chugging along on this. I'm about halfway through the original manuscript. Which means I'll really be done as I expect to be, by the end of this month.I made a relatively minor change a...
Posted by Jens H. Altmann on Fri, 16 May 2008 12:21:00 PST

Novel in Progress: The Coldest Blood - Revisions

I have started on the revisions of The Coldest Blood. And I started with rewriting the very first line."Mr. Shaw, I need your help" is simply a far stronger opening line than "I'm listening."I also ma...
Posted by Jens H. Altmann on Fri, 09 May 2008 12:50:00 PST

Novel in Progress: The Coldest Blood

All the deadlines have been met, so I know have the time to print out The Coldest Blood and get started on the revisions.It may be because of my age, and perhaps because I wrote my first manuscripts o...
Posted by Jens H. Altmann on Thu, 08 May 2008 12:03:00 PST

The Twitter Fiction

Consider it performance art.I'm going to create a short story that I will run on Twitter, in short bursts of at most five postings a day. I may or may not copy the posts to a separate LiveJournal. If ...
Posted by Jens H. Altmann on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:30:00 PST

Coming Up On Twitter...

Sure, I have a Twitter account, but I really have no idea what it's supposed to be good for. Warren Ellis, on Whitechapel, said, "What, you don't like to be in touch with your friends?" Actually, my...
Posted by Jens H. Altmann on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:02:00 PST