KELLY COLEMAN

Sometimes it truly takes excessive measures, a strong heart and unrelenting persistence to make your dreams come true.  A good dose of patience, hopeful expectation and well-tested endurance also comes in handy when you are pursuing something that you are determined to see to its fruition.  Such is the case with German author of international best-seller, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, Jan-Philipp Sendker.

Sendker, who will be visiting Vero Beach on March 18^th, recently released the anticipated sequel, A Well-Tempered Heart, to his first award winning novel.   The Art of Hearing Heartbeats was originally published in Germany without immediate acclaim.  Led by his heart and a dream to publish the book in America, Sendker spent 10 years searching for an interested publisher.  Finally, after concluding he must hire his own translator and continuing to search for an American publisher, Other Press and Sendker were introduced and his dream came true. MORE…