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01 Why I Didn't Start Writing Until After 45 June 10, 2025 02 What My First Manuscript Looked Like — the One No One Was Supposed to See June 24, 2025 03 The Day I First Said Out Loud: "I'm a Writer" July 8, 2025 04 What I Felt When I Wrote the Last Line August 19, 2025 05 Why Finishing the Book Turned Out to Be Not the End, But the Start of a New Job September 2, 2025 06 The First Reader, the First Review September 16, 2025 07 Why I Decided to Record the Audiobook in My Own Voice September 30, 2025 08 Translating the Book into English: Expectations and Reality October 14, 2025 09 My First Rejection from a Publisher, and What It Taught Me November 11, 2025 10 Looking for a Literary Agent, Without Illusions November 25, 2025 11 What Turned Out to Be the Most Expensive Part of Self-Publishing a Book December 9, 2025 12 How a Book Changed Me December 23, 2025 13 Why I Keep Writing Even When I Don't Know How Many Copies Will Sell January 6, 2026 14 How the Third Book of the Trilogy Is Being Born January 20, 2026 15 What I'd Do Differently Today Than I Would Have Three Years Ago February 3, 2026 16 If I Had to Start From Zero Again February 17, 2026 17 Why an Author's Journey Doesn't End When the Book Is Written March 3, 2026

01 How I Chose My First Editor March 10, 2026 02 Why Good Proofreading Is Almost Invisible March 24, 2026 03 The Synopsis: The Most Hated Part of the Writer's Journey March 31, 2026 04 The Island Where You Don't Have to Prove Anything: How Bali Taught Me to Write Honestly April 7, 2026 05 How I Chose My Cover and Illustration Designer April 14, 2026 06 What turned out to matter more than a beautiful cover April 21, 2026 07 Book Layout: The Work Nobody Talks About April 28, 2026 08 What Preparing a Book for Print Actually Looks Like May 5, 2026 09 What Turned Out to Be Harder — Writing the Book, or Single-Handedly Building the Team Around It May 12, 2026 10 Why a Good Translation Is Almost Co-Authorship May 26, 2026 11 How I Recorded My Own Audiobook Myself — and What Happens Next June 2, 2026 12 What to Do When Manuscript Versions Multiply on Your Desktop Like Rabbits in Spring June 9, 2026 13 Self-Publishing Is the Fastest Way to Find Your Reader June 12, 2026 14 What I Definitely Wouldn't Pay for Again Today June 16, 2026 15 How the Title of My Book Was Born June 18, 2026 16 If This Service Had Existed Earlier, I'd Have Saved Months of Work June 20, 2026 17 Why We Started Building a Helper for Authors June 22, 2026

01 Don't Be Afraid of a Bad First Draft May 5, 2026 02 Don't Compare Your First Book to Someone Else's Tenth May 12, 2026 03 Never Edit a Page You Haven't Finished Writing May 19, 2026 04 Don't Wait for Inspiration Every Day May 26, 2026 05 Why a Book Doesn't Have to Please Everyone June 2, 2026 06 How to Survive a Negative Review June 9, 2026 07 What to Do When You Want to Delete the Whole Manuscript June 12, 2026 08 Sometimes the Best Chapter Is the One You Had to Delete June 16, 2026 09 A Writer Grows Faster Than a Book June 18, 2026