I thank my friends, my family….

I guess one needs to thank people whatever writing process they are involved in, if it is a book, a blog or just a graffiti at the bus station. If I ever write a book I will thank a lot of people, but I won’t write it in the beginning or in the end of the book, this would be too easy and not good for the book sales. The purpose of thanking people is getting them to buy your book as people being vain creatures simply hunger after seeing their own name on writing. If you put the “thank you” in the traditional place in the start or in the end of the book, they quickly can find their name in the bookstore without buying the book. If you put it in unpredictable place, they have to buy the book to find out where they are mentioned. And the more people you thank, the more copies you sell, so I will remember to thank everybody I have ever met in my current and recent lives. I am guaranteed a booksale of over 20 copies.

So I want to thank my friends, my family, my colleagues and many strangers in my current writing process. Your weird manners, peculiar looks and ridicule thoughts have been an enormous inspiration.

I do though want to mention specially three persons. Thank you for JB’s funny blog getting me started. I was stalking his blog with irrelevant comments until he either left for holiday or simply went under cover. And not being able to disturb him any more, I started my own blog.

I want to thank my oldest friend Saga for sharing your absurd humor, thousands of hours of laughter and due to that the constant threats from teachers to be kicked out of the class.

And Vips, Taivaan lahja, thank you for always believing in my talent. You even found a publisher for my great idea for the series of children’s travel books. The fact that this publisher now has retired, tired of waiting for any concrete action from my side, has taken a heavy pressure off my shoulders.