Greetings and Welcome to Zuzu’s Petals,
the creative cyber home of Sezin Koehler.
Sezin, a.k.a. Zuzu, recently said goodbye to her dreary and cold home of four years in Prague, Czech Republic and now smiles away in Koln, Germany, where the weather is warm and the people even more so. A traveller since birth (her mother worked for UNICEF), Sezin has begun to carve out her global niche as a writer and creative entrepreneur.
Using her life abroad, her degree in Anthropology, as well as her experience surviving a gang-related gun crime, Sezin writes about culture, trauma, Third Culture Kid negotiations, and tying those back into her love for the horror genre. And Lady Gaga, when appropriate.
American Monsters, her first novel, was picked up by Ghostwoods Books and a new illustrated edition was re-released in 2011. Currently, there are three follow-up novels in the works, American Monsters in Los Angeles, American Monsters in Prague, and American Monsters in D.C.
All the time she has spent stargazing on airplanes got her interested in the art of astrology, and for the last ten years she has specialised in natal chart readings while expanding to locational astrology and basic readings of the here and now. Don’t believe the hype about your astrological sign changing. That was an example of some very lazy journalism.
While living in Seville, Spain, a place she is convinced she lived and died in before, Sezin discovered a witchy talent of reading cards, which has since expanded from basic readings to the more complex Faery Oracle and Animal Medicine pathways. Maybe you’d like a reading?
Sezin is available to write articles, book chapters, travel stories, screenplays and fiction; she can provide an astrology or card reading; her art is available for purchase through Zazzle; Prague photo books are forthcoming.
Her newest project — Expatland.DE, an informational site about the ins and outs of moving to Germany — is in its beta stages. You can also check out her professional website that features her editing, translation and other creative development services.
Be sure and visit Sezin’s blog to see what’s caught her fancy of late.
Thank you for visiting ZuzuLandia and we hope you enjoy your stay!
P.S. The nickname “Zuzu” came about when Sezin worked as an afternoon carer at an international school in Prague. Little Tereza couldn’t pronounce her name, so started calling her Ms. Zuzu. Sezin was tickled pink, seeing that Zuzu is the name of a character in one of her favourite films, “It’s A Wonderful Life”, and Zuzu’s petals mark a most beautiful turning point in the story.
