A few months after coming back from France, I hired someone to word
process the whole of the story I had written on paper. Since then, I’ve been
writing on a computer. When the whole of that first book was finished, I was
faced with the problem of how to publish it. As the content was not arty
enough, my application for a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture was rejected.
Many publishers also rejected me, because according to them even the well
established foreign writers were not selling well, let alone beginners. So my
only option was to self-publish.
First I had to find a good proof reader. Then the Word file needed to be
converted to PDF, but the guy who could do it was constantly busy. I was very
impatient and lost many sleepless nights over this guy. It was because of him I
later learnt how to use Adobe Designer and convert files from Word to PDF.
