I have been passionate about colors for as long as I can remember. I was born with cataracts, so perhaps once they were removed, I marveled at the world of hues and shades, sheens and tinges with a heightened sense of perception, perhaps to make up for the year and a half which I spent not knowing that everything around me was colorful: the toys, the furniture, the people around me, the sky.Read more

I'm sure most of you are familiar with the story of Romeo and Juliet. In the video, I explain how and why their love story was transported to the modern times, from Verona to Poland, to form the core of my novel.Read more

Imagine that you're transported back in time, about seven centuries or more. You burst with happiness as you walk on a neatly paved road and breathe in the air scented with wildflowers. In the distance, you can already spot the little houses. You quicken your pace, so overtaken you are by curiosity of who inhabits these dwellings.Read more

It is an odd feeling to flip through the pages of my published novel. Naturally, I am thrilled that the book is out, living a life of its own, conveying issues that I'm passionate about to others. At the same time, I'm reluctant to leave the lives of my book heroes behind. Once imprinted onto the pages of the novel, my book heroes' lives are beyond my reach: I can no longer reshape them, for better or for worse. Read more