corina.gruber

I’m a Lego fan. Maybe that’s because when I was a child the colorful bricks were almost impossible to find in communist Romania. Maybe because today the Lego world is a flight away from my hometown. Anyway, I’ve visited Legoland in Germany more than once.  It took me some time to understand how the place is organized and what is the role of the food in Lego story. When I first visited I found no certain logic to the placement of the 15 restaurants and coffee shops. After some time, I realized that behind all the concepts, the decorum, even behind the chosen recipes was the  story . Everything belongs to a concept in which the food represents a small part of a complete experience. The most interesting restaurants and coffee shops are the ones that have a distinct Lego theme. I enjoyed the Knight’s table, a restaurant right near the Castle Ice Cream coffee shop, The schnitzel Depot (which is right to the hotdog kiosk called Oasis in the Jungle) and the Asian pas...

I first traveled abroad when I was 14. Back then it was a long and difficult process, hard to imagine today, that involved lengthy custom control and the slow procedures. All my travels abroad looked the same for many years afterward. I would have never imagined driving up the highway and only having a quick glimpse of the sign showing I’m entering another country. After overcoming that initial fear of the unknown, I understood that with every journey something changed in my way of being. With time, laws relaxed and traveling in Europe became easier. It didn’t feel like such a big challenge anymore. But that exciting curiosity of finding something new and unknown or of returning to something familiar always made me want to travel as much as possible. Traveling opened my eyes to the world, to its complexity, diversity and its inherent beauty. It also thought me something about my inner being, about how much I can accept, about how tolerant I am, how much ego I have or how mu...

I've been waiting for this moment for more than 10 years. 5 years ago, I wouldn't even have dreamed to write literature in English. Let alone horror speculative literature. So...here are my thoughts on publishing: -define your genre -find your market (magazines, publishing houses, anthologies) -edit to the best of your abilities -join online writing forums and groups (that really helped me) -be patient -never give up Here are the links to the two magazines where my stories were published.  http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/pdfs/SirensCallEZine_October2019.pdf https://payhip.com/b/IMv0?fbclid=IwAR2BllzxV9Vlq_pHuNwjKLW88gUhjII5TOLgX9RDgcIoIVPDhY9iQI3ffao