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Posted on July 28, 2012 under Author Blogs

AuthorHouse Author Gloria D. Gonsalvez: from defiant reader at school in Tanzania to multi-published author

AuthorHouse is made up of a cosmopolitan family of authors. For some of us English is not even our first language. This diversity of cultures and backgrounds is what makes the AuthorHouse Author?s Digest such an exciting, international experience.

Today Gloria D. Gonsalves starts us on a two-part series of blog posts that trace her from her defiant reading habits at school in Tanzania to becoming a multi-published AuthorHouse author. ??????

The Writing Quest
By Gloria D. Gonsalves

My love for story books began during school years. Being in a boarding school with a strict study regime, reading a novel was similar to committing a forbidden sin. And that excited me! Having a copy of Mills & Boon hidden on my laps during preparatory time was a sweetest dessert treat after the unpalatable dinner of corn and beans. The Headmistress would silently peek on the windows to see who committed a crime of talking, falling asleep or reading anything unrelated to school work. I was always caught, punished but happily repeated my crime of reading the forbidden stories.

A breakthrough came when my English language teacher urged me to join a regional essay competition, since I loved books so much. I did and won a bible. A second opportunity of writing came. With my teacher?s guidance I wrote my first ever drama play. It was performed when other schools visited us.

I stopped writing.

Sixteen years later I began writing again. But this time it wasn?t for enjoyment. It was a craving for taking out the destructive emotions eating my mouth to silence. A series of events and feelings led me one day to simply sit down, switch on the computer and write. I had studies to do as I was pursuing my Master?s degree but that did not matter. I wrote until all my emotions found a new home on the computer screen. To date, it is the longest poetic prose I have ever written. Days later I discovered blogging and began to share my poems. A friend suggested I compile them into a book. I listened to that precious advice but did not act on it immediately. Instead, I chose to tread carefully with a written short story to an on-line magazine. Based in a German speaking country where I write in English, I decided to randomly choose an English publisher and found one in Poland. I sent my story (the poetic prose converted to a short story) and it was picked, ?Editor?s Choice of the Week.??

I was writing again.

My hunger for writing grew and with it came an appetite to share. But how would I do that? I read about publishing and it seemed like a bureaucratic process involving sending manuscripts to as many as you can and probably all could end up in the bin. If one was lucky to be published, they needed an agent. Then I read of self-publishing and my instincts felt it was the right way to go despite the negativism I read of vanity publishing. I resorted to the help of search engines and AuthorHouse came on the top of the list. I wrote them an email and Mr Daniel Cooke responded. What a joyful experience it was. I instantly felt bewitched by self-publishing as it gave me the fulfilling sense of ownership throughout the process. Additionally as nature lover, I am a fan of the Print-On-Demand technology, whereby books are printed only when an order has been placed. May the trees live longer until each author has penned their thoughts from imagination wilderness!

AuthorHouse Author Gloria D. Gonsalves will conclude her AuthorHouse Author?s Digest blog series tomorrow when she talks about her writing goals, why she chooses to write in English and her future book projects.

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