Happy New Year!
Yes, I know, everyone says the same things at the end of every year, but that's the way it should be.
Today, I shouldn't be writing on my blogs. I should celebrate.
Yet, I am not.
I never re…
Friends are the family I choose for myself: Testimony of magnanimity
I love my family, I love it very much.
However, I left my country and separated from those I grew up with a long time ago.
I haven't seen my siblings all together in more than 20 years.
If there…
The Heaviness of Breathing: The worst book ever written
November is a blue month for me, and not because it's cold, windy and rainy, but because it reminds me of my communist childhood.
When I decided to invest everything in a writing career, I thoug…
The sense of not belonging
Do you ever feel like not belonging anywhere? I do. Often. Way too often. Sometimes I even feel like I don't belong to my body. I don't feel trapped in it, no. I am a woman, and I don't w…
The sun will shine on your road too
"The sun will shine on your (our, my) road too," is a Romanian proverb that my family uses a lot, especial one of my sisters, Alexandrina.
In English, this would be "After a storm come…
Why do we cry when others cry?
Have you ever asked yourself why do we cry when others cry?
I have... many, many times.
And my answer was that we relate to the reasons a person cries.
I mean, we all go through many terrible things …
Aphantasia - Being blind in your mind
Aphantasia... What is it? Have you ever heard of it? What a beautiful word, isn't it?
Aphantasia - a term coined by the researchers of the University of Exeter/Devon/England - is the inability t…
Inspirational and Motivational Movies
When I started writing my self-esteem was... inexistent.
The courage to write was there because I write since I learned the alphabet's letters, but the courage to publish was nowhere to be found…
Free romance book: iLive
I've been terribly busy with my new book in my mother tongue: 14 Nuante de Rosu , that I have completely forgotten about my books in English.
Today I'd like to rectify and inform me that my r…
14 Nuante de Rosu - Writing & publishing in my mother tongue
I've written a more complete variant of this posts on Linkedin .
However, I need to make public a few things on my blog too.
It's not easy to write about myself and my work. It does not co…
It's Never Game Over is Great on Kindle!
"Ups, I did it again..."
Oh, my, I am so excited and grateful!
Amazon choose another of my books for the beta program called Great on Kindle!
Here are some fragments of the email they sen…
Support, encouragements and lottery tickets
I don't know what you do or what you dream of, but I want to be a world-famous author.
I wanted this since I was 8, but I didn't dare to dream that it could be possible until I turned 40 - w…
My First Non-Fiction eBook is Great on Kindle! - Oranges at Christmas
Are you a self-published author? How many good things happened to you since you started this daunting career?
To me, not many. Honestly... NONE until a few days back when a newspaper published an ar…
Is success a matter of talent, money or is it pure luck?
Success has never been only a matter of talent as I used to believe since I can remember.
Now that I am inside the world of writers who work for fame and recognition, I can say it for sure.
You don&…
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