Writing a book is a labor of love. The process is so complex, that sometimes challenges me to a point where I question myself if is still worth doing it. Creation is something that is fuelled by a variety of sentiments and feelings which interact and blend together like a tide coming to the shore. It can be an easy encounter when the wave brushes a sandy warm beach, or a hard crush splashed into millions of sparkling droplets when the wave hits the rocky wall of a dungeon. I wrote Life Under The Dark Sky being aware that beside the creation process I had to deal with the historic factor and the biographic factor, both being equally important.
As I said before the life story that inspired me was the starting point, but the book had to be much more than that. It had to have a message and to transport the reader in a time and place where the story had a life on its own. Most of the reviews I received said about the veridical atmosphere the story took the reader to, and the defined characters that lived through their actions and feelings during a period of time which my generation and the
younger one, learned about only in school, and was lucky enough not to live it. I am happy that most of the people found the reading interesting and captivating. This is what keeps me motivated, and makes me proud.
I cannot thank enough to all the well wishers and readers that really made my days with their words and attention I've received since I published the novel. I was advised to promote the book in larger circles, to go and reach the schools’ libraries and community centers along with the book stores. I’m slowly doing just that.
However recently I received a request from a passionate reader that made me think deeper about the impact the book has. The reader wished to meet the main heroine of the novel personally, and have the book signed by Heidi. I was so honored and impressed by the request, and I invited the reader into my home to meet my family and my Mother-in -law. She came with her husband and we all spent a couple of hours sharing memories and scenes from the book. It was so empowering for me to see the result of my writing materializing into a new friendship, the fact that it brings people together,it has people talking, and in one way or another is stirring and drawing attention to an era that the humanity should not allow to be repeated. If only for those people who have read the book and were touched by what they had read, the challenge of writing it was worth taking.
Thank you to all of you for reading the novel and for visiting my website.
Bellow is a picture of my Mother-in-law and the reader who wanted to meet her personally.
As I said before the life story that inspired me was the starting point, but the book had to be much more than that. It had to have a message and to transport the reader in a time and place where the story had a life on its own. Most of the reviews I received said about the veridical atmosphere the story took the reader to, and the defined characters that lived through their actions and feelings during a period of time which my generation and the
younger one, learned about only in school, and was lucky enough not to live it. I am happy that most of the people found the reading interesting and captivating. This is what keeps me motivated, and makes me proud.
I cannot thank enough to all the well wishers and readers that really made my days with their words and attention I've received since I published the novel. I was advised to promote the book in larger circles, to go and reach the schools’ libraries and community centers along with the book stores. I’m slowly doing just that.
However recently I received a request from a passionate reader that made me think deeper about the impact the book has. The reader wished to meet the main heroine of the novel personally, and have the book signed by Heidi. I was so honored and impressed by the request, and I invited the reader into my home to meet my family and my Mother-in -law. She came with her husband and we all spent a couple of hours sharing memories and scenes from the book. It was so empowering for me to see the result of my writing materializing into a new friendship, the fact that it brings people together,it has people talking, and in one way or another is stirring and drawing attention to an era that the humanity should not allow to be repeated. If only for those people who have read the book and were touched by what they had read, the challenge of writing it was worth taking.
Thank you to all of you for reading the novel and for visiting my website.
Bellow is a picture of my Mother-in-law and the reader who wanted to meet her personally.
Khazeena and Hedwig (Heidi) having tea at my place.
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