Books

Yvonne Everett loves hiking, biking and off-road exploring in Australia. She shares stories of her trails on her website, CoffsTrails, and has published two guidebooks. Yvonne explains how she used Ulysses to meet the complex requirements of authoring a 4WD guidebook.

Initially starting as a freelance journalist and then switching to (ghost-)writing books full-time, Tim Van der Mensbrugghe has been writing for over 20 years. In this interview, he has demystified the perception of a ghostwriter and how he could write eight books a year with Ulysses.

Despite claiming to be a writer, what John Lim does is more like a young entrepreneur with a sense of responsibility to society. Originally from Singapore, John loves to explore and think, and he writes to inspire young people with confidence and power in their career and life paths.

Born in the US but returning to Japan after graduating high school, Masatake E. is currently a climatologist at the University of Tokyo. However, his all-time favorite writing topic is lifehacks. For him, "lifehacks" would change life if applied consistently.

Marty is from Hong Kong and is a father of two. As he transitioned to fatherhood, Marty began to write his parenting blog post. Last year, he published his first book. For him, the publication of this book was not only to share his parenting experience with others but to keep this exclusive memory.

When Polish author, essayist and editor Maciej Jakubowiak started working on his book “Ostatni ludzie. Wymyślanie końca świata” (“The Last People. Inventing the End of the World”) in 2019, there wasn’t any …

Julia March completed her first book “La fille pas sympa” in just nine months. “A piece of cake”, as she describes it compared to her Master’s thesis. In our interview, Julia explains why she recommends enrolling in humanities to anyone who considers a career around writing.

Tim Gregory works as a nuclear scientist, holds a PhD in cosmochemistry and believes in the problem-solving power of science. He’s fascinated with meteorites, the “stones from outer space” that reveal what happened as our Solar System was forming some 4.6-billion-years ago.

Rebekah Bastian wrote her book “Blaze Your Own Trail” as a side project while serving as a corporate executive; later, the impulse led her to found a company. Both the book and her business aim to support women to follow their own individual path in life, as she explains in our interview.

Ralph Caspers is the host of two of the most well-known German children’s TV programs. He has been doing this for so long that everyone at Ulysses knows who he is: either because they watched his shows when they were younger or because they have children who watch them now.

Around six years ago, German consultant Claus Wechselmann started writing novels, the first of which was published this April. For Claus, writing is an expression of his soul, for which he gladly sacrifices the small amount of free time his demanding career leaves him.

Antony Dapiran is an Australian writer who has been residing in Hong Kong for many years. In our interview, he talks about his attraction to Hong Kong, the gradual transition from lawyer to writer, and the process of writing his latest book about the protests in the city in 2019.

Bonsai, the Japanese art of growing miniature trees, is said to be complex, with many things to consider and pitfalls to avoid. Luckily, there’s the bonsai expert Jonas Dupuich, who shares his knowledge on his blog and in his recently published book.

Strategist in the games business by day, science fiction author by night – Matt Casamassina is a co-founder of the legendary IGN.com, led the App Store games editorial team for almost a decade, and in addition to all that, helped found a games company.

Kelly Wade is an independent content strategist and copywriter from Australia. Graduated in forensics and chemistry and holder of a PhD, Kelly worked for the Australian government before she decided to switch careers. …

Fangzhou Jiang has been writing for more than 23 years: She started at the age of six, published her first book at ten, and never stopped. Fangzhou is still popular all over China …

For Matt Morgan, writing is a means to relieve work stress and turn it into something useful. In his first book, which will soon be published with Simon & Schuster, he shares stories …