The Book

We are living in the 21st century where nothing is impossible. That is what we are made to believe but it comes down to the details one finds out the multitude of roadblocks. 

My wife wrote a book. That alone is a major accomplishment. The book's original language is in Hungarian but it was also translated to English.

Hungarian language is weird. Its vowels are filled with special accents, without those words lose their meanings. The American keyboards have no such keys to show the accented letters. And, that makes a book written in other than English a curiosity. There are a few publishers who accept such a manuscript but they do not guarantee the correctness of the printing.

The book was not printed in Hungarian for local publishing but wanted it to be available if needed. Even though publishers require a downloadable script they are still having problems with the presence of accents.

We found a Hungarian self publishing company in Hungary who at first said they have no problem printing a book even if it was put together in the US. Ever since then they have one issue after another, European size even if off by 2 millimeters is not the same as the US size. We had to reformat the pages, the pictures and thus the entire book to please them.

Interestingly, when we called them at the start they were very positive about this book's publishing. Later as time went by they came up with more and more excuses. And every excuse had a price tag.

It is a shame that just because we are on the other side of the ocean they make it look like we are living in a different world.