Monique S

Monique S is a prolific writer of young adult, romance, fantasy and science fiction literature. She currently has nine novels published on Amazon.com, some in collaboration with other authors.

Biography
From Amazon.com:

Born in 1953 in Hamburg, Germany as a boy, Monique spent an unhappy childhood and adolescence struggling with being male. She left home for the general conscription as a conscientious objector and including 6 month's training spent 2 1/2 years as a paramedic on an ambulance of the Red Cross.

After her service she traveled Europe for a year and upon her return eventually joined four others to found a company in the music industry. She became well known designer of equipment for six years, until the pressure of her wish to become a woman got too strong and she came out as transgender.

Her career in the music industry more or less ended with that, but she became the technical directrice of two Theatre festivals, the "Sommertheater 1984" in Hamburg and for the Alte Oper the technical directrice of their tent venue of the "Theater der Welt" 1985 in Grüneburgpark in Frankfurt.

Thereafter she left germany in 1986 and started studying astrology. She installed the odd sound and lighting system in Discotheques, where she also helped out as a waitress or barmaid sometimes, while she slowly grew a reputation as an astrologer. In 1995 she moved to Exmoor in Somerset/Devon, UK, where she started writing as a hobby but also got more and more interested in organic living and – due to her huge technical experience – renewable energies. Her best friend joined her in 1996 in the cottage she rented and for four years they pondered buying a cottage together, only to find the prices abnormally expensive.

During their searches they kept finding adds for sales in Brittany, France and due to the already changing social climate in the UK for the worse, they built a micro camper on the base of a car based van and went to Italy through France to visit a friend near Rome. Back in the UK they decided to move to rural France. In 2000 they ended up in central Brittany.

Monique worked in Brittany as an electrician at first and rapidly acquired other building skills necessary to restore an old Breton Farmhouse like laying natural Granite for walls or slating a roof. Already having been living without television since 1995 living without electricity and mains water was the next step to more independence and ones own energy sources. Today Monique concentrates on her writing, but still counsels people on sustainable living and sometimes with astrology.