Gero Wenderholm — Author & Novel: Manfred Mi Amor
Gero Wenderholm is an online marketing consultant and novelist from Hamburg-St. Pauli. His debut novel „Manfred Mi Amor“ will be published in summer 2026 by PM Lakeman Verlag — a dating novel in three parts. Tinder vs. dance café; AI vs. cooking class; Excel vs. ice skating.
Who
Online marketing for around twenty years — SEO, Voice Commerce, mobile, strategy. Hamburg by choice, St. Pauli district, standing area at Millerntor stadium. Computer science degree with AI focus. Vegan cooking, marathon running. Professionally a consultant, in writing a storyteller — two voices from the same person, but sounding very different.
How the Novel Came About
A long car journey with two friends. Dating-fail stories, each more peculiar than the last. Somewhere between Hamburg and the Baltic Sea, the sentence fell: „You have to write this down.“ Then eighteen months of writing alongside a job and two daughters. The trilogy is completely finished and in the editing stage.
What Comes Next
Manfred Mi Amor will be published in summer 2026 by PM Lakeman Verlag. Parts 2 and 3 follow. On fortschrift.net the making-of is running; on TikTok as Prof. Lesebefehl the book-review persona.
Manfred Mi Amor — Novel
Debut novel, to be published summer 2026 by PM Lakeman Verlag. Trilogy, Part 1. The dating novel is set in Hamburg-St. Pauli and in each part contrasts a digital with an analogue form of relationship: Tinder vs. dance café; AI vs. cooking class; Excel vs. ice skating.
Key Details
- Author: Gero Wenderholm
- Publisher: PM Lakeman Verlag
- Series: Manfred Mi Amor (Trilogy), Part 1
- Genre: Fiction, Romance, Humorous Novel
- Language: German
- Publication: Summer 2026
Pre-Order
Pre-order links to follow once released by the publisher.