I don't know if I ever mentioned it, if I did I apologize, that my wife wrote a book. The book she wrote is about life in the old country, the healthy ways they lived and how the full richness of nature was used to cure ailments. Also healthy recipes were included in this book.
The book was written in two languages and is currently available in bookstores and through Amazon, practically in every country where Amazon is doing business. As we were told the book met with moderate success and interest. Did not hear anything negative about it, only positive comments. There is an American publishing company and a European publishing company doing the marketing.
The European publisher invited my wife to an upcoming book symposium to be held in Budapest in late November. Supposedly, at this get together she would have a chance to meet people from the industry as well as other writers, publishers and whoever else.
I am pushing her to go because I think this is a great opportunity, but she is very hesitant. You have to know that my wife is extremely shy. Hates publicity, hates public exposure. But if we want this book to really take off she has to shrug off these feelings. She went to Europe a few months ago and saw that traveling is not as difficult as it was made to believe. At that time she visited family and friends and had a good time.
This time this would be mostly business, helping the book to get off and fly. Ok, the family is there, and one can not avoid to see them, but this rime they would have to take second place. Right now she is working on her second book and this visit would be a great preamble to it.
It is a little difficult to make arrangements to a European trip because of the uncertainties caused by the covid-19. European countries have the tendency to close their border without much notice and something like that makes planning very difficult.
But, we remain optimistic about the future.
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