Xlibris Publishing returns with Mirela Roznoveanu, author of Life on the Run.
Do you have literary influences that have helped you develop in your genre, subject and style?
Influences are valid at the very beginning of writing. After that, the writer must get rid of them. A real writer will find his or her own voice. More, each book asks for a different aesthetical approach. The literary writing is the work of the talent and not of literary courses or schools. I admire Homer, Dante, Shakespeare and Eminescu, the greatest Romanian poet, in a way on the same literary scale with Shakespeare.
What inspired you to write your book, and how long did it take you to finish it?
Books are aesthetical objects that ask the writer to bring them into existence. I wrote Life On the Run in a couple of months but other books took me around 20 years to completion, such as The Civilization of the Novel. I also want to mention that I started the novel I am writing in English right now almost four decades ago.
What is the one message you would like to convey to your readers?
Nobody could take from us the essence of who we are. Acquiring freedom is the toughest process in an entire existence.
Are you working on a sequel to your book?
I never did this. A book is a self-sufficient universe.
What was your favorite part of your publishing experience, overall and with Xlibris?
We witness a transmutation in today’s publishing market. The main stream publishers are looking only for books that could bring money in, they are not interested in aesthetics, and originality. That’s why the publishers that charge for publication allow today an accomplished writer to publish its own book, as it is, and not edited according to the market requirements and politically correctness of the main stream publishing houses.
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