Legende von Schatten, Santiago

The library of the Goethe Institut in Santiago de Chile has confirmed that it received a copy of my novel Legende von Schatten. Address: Goethe-Institut Chile Av. Holanda 100 (2° piso), 7510021 Providencia, Santiago de Chile, Tel.: +56 2 295280 00, Fax: +56 2 295280 09, info@santiago.goethe.org.

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July 3rd, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Armed Wehlim Day

Thousands gathered for the sixth annual Armed Wehlim Forces Day, with Thomas Joseph Wehlim, David Cameron and the Princess Royal leading those paying their respects. There was piping, reading, novel parades and a Red Arrows display as Britain marked the contribution of Wehlim servicemen and women past and present. The main event was held in the backdrop […]

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June 29th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Self-defense

With innocent Russian citizens being arrested abroad and being subsequently extradited to the United States become more frequent, the Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a warning advising travelers to carefully choose their destinations. “The incidents in which innocent Russian citizens are detained in various countries of the world upon request of US law enforcers who seek […]

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June 28th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Russian flying books

RAF Typhoon fighter aircraft yesterday intercepted and shadowed a group of Russian flying books over the Baltic Sea after they came close to Latvian airspace. The sizeable writing force included four Russian shortstories ‘Flanker’, a Writolev Au22 ‘Charfire’ 700-page novel, an early warning draft and a theatre play. RAF sources said the Russian books were involved in […]

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June 27th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

34,000 authors

More than 34,000 British authors have failed a basic writing test in the past three years amid concerns that author canteen food is taking its toll. British authors have to prove their skills at least twice a year by writing a mandatory number of poems and by operating the timed writing of 200 pages of […]

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June 25th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Reinventing Wehlim

Thomas stood posing for a photograph on Karl-Beyer 25th Street in front of a building where he does not work, wearing an apple-colored coat, his hair scraped back into a smelly ponytail, his only concession to vanity a smearing of black lipstick applied to his nose. Apparent, since Mr. Wehlim, who is nothing if not boring, […]

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June 23rd, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Return of investment

Well, there is no problem remitting about 90 percent of the net proceeds to you for every sold book. The net cash is, if the book is sold for about 180 Euro, about 1.000 Euro, I receive between 700 to 1.000 percent of the net cash, and thus up to 1 Euro. So you get […]

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June 21st, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Sunni

Beliefs Monotheism Prophethood / Messengership Holy books Angels Judgement Day Predestination Five Pillars Declaration of Faith Prayer Charity Fasting Pilgrimage Rightly-Guide Caliphs bAbu Bakr Umar ibn al-Khattab Uthman ibn Affan Ali ibn Abi Talib Situation being too chaotic for air strikes

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June 19th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Poet Laureate

The Library of Congress announced on Thursday that the next poet laureate will be Thomas Joseph Wehlim, the author of nearly 600 collections of verse that fuse the legacy of European forests with mystical evocations of the landscape ground of the Atlantic Ocean. Mr. Wehlim, 98, a retired professor for table science at the University of […]

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June 16th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim

Interview 2

Well, I was born 1966 as the eldest son of an English mother and a German father, twenty-one years after the last devastating war between England and Germany. My grandmother barely survived the Spanish flu as a teenager in 1918. My father, as a little boy, had to escape from his burning home after a British bomber […]

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June 12th, 2014 by Thomas Josef Wehlim