Season Two of the German cable series

Kissed Awake in Stuttgart
(“Wachgeküsst in Stuttgart” in German)

A romantic TV series about being young, in love, and a little lost
in a city full of comic misunderstandings.

This season’s arc is a romantic comedy involving three pairs and at least two sexual orientations. Will the lonely, workaholic Nelly ever slow down long enough to learn the difference between love and lust?

Written by Deanna Carlyle, Jørn Precht and Thomas Goersch

Scroll down for more pictures, and to learn more about the series (in German), visit the official site.

Just completed:
My award-winning young adult novel

Charm School for Beginners

By Deanna Carlyle

Genre: YA fantasy suspense novel

Word count: 70,000, completed

Tone: darkly comic

Agent: Joe Veltre, Artists Literary Group

Teaser: Welcome to St. Gilles. Good luck graduating with your soul intact.

A teen tomboy feels lost at her new Swiss finishing school until she uncovers her identity as a hereditary sibyl and prophetess, destined to battle an ancient foe who is robbing teen girls of their very soul.

Nearly complete:
A new, darkly comic young adult fantasy novel

Little Witch in a Big Pond
By Deanna Carlyle

An English teen's year abroad takes her to a magical dimension in the Black Forest, where she discovers her true origin and identity as a witch. But is she a good one or a bad one? After her sixteenth birthday, she'll find out.

Currently in the works:
A new, darkly comic young adult novel

I, Miss America
By Deanna Carlyle

Love, Turkish-American style. A U.S. army brat teen in Germany falls in love with a gorgeous Turkish boy. Both their families are against the match, but that’s not going to stop the lovers from trying. A story about love, culture clash, and figuring out who you really are in a home at odds and a world at war.

Also in the works:
A film adaptation of the literary classic by Honoré de Balzac

Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
By Deanna Carlyle

Paris, 1824. A shadowy priest saves a desperate courtesan from suicide and promises to reunite her with her true love.

Born in poverty and sold to a gang of pickpockets when she was five, Esther Gosbeck, 26, endures the life of a common courtesan. Her nights of lurid debauchery are spent in a bordello that caters to the bourgeoisie. But when one night she meets a masked stranger, her life takes a turn for the better . . . and the worse. Only faith in love can save her now.