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My journey into publishing my poetry book

I was sitting down one day after I failed my medical school admission test thinking at what I could have done better to pass it. I live in Italy as a lot of you may know, and there is a huge national admission test to pass and get into medical school, just 1 person out of 10 gets in, 68.000 people trying for 12.000 spots. I knew I didn't work hard enough. I was motivated but something was missing.  So many people will tell you that you won't make it, and their opinion is one of the reasons why you actually won't, you care too much of that. I recalled myself, and I said: "This year I will study harder than I ever did, I will work harder than ever, and I will make it! And if I won't at least I won't be regretting for the rest of my life that I didn't work harder, knowing that I could." I started writing many of my thoughts during the beginning of this journey, so this book was born. I think I had a great idea, all of us have so man...

Translating my book, journey

Yes, the moment has come. I will start translating my book. Wish me luck.  I have been writing in italian for my whole life and my first novel ,The last Beat came out in italian but now, since I think that it's a great story I really wish I can reach more people, and just by translating it I'll be able to do it. I am really ecxited to start this journey even if I know it's going to be so long and difficult. I have translated before but oh my God, that was hard. I will try and update here everything that I do. This is how the italian cover is, I might keep the same one for the translated version, I'll definitely change the trim size because I know that American and English people do care about the size of the book while Italians don't.  I can't wait to know what more people think about my story and I can't wait to start this journey, this is the first novel I've ever written and I was 17 when I started and finished this, I am so pr...