The Book is a perfect self-efficient Guide for Self-Publishing. As she would teach her classes for 20 years, patiently, Zoia Sproesser, is leading a reader through self-publishing process. If the reader still has questions, Zoia is open for e-communication. The book, that you are holding in your hands, is an actual model of your own future book. It is a physical model of a book, and it is the huge concentrated knowledge, the result of Zoia's patient one-and-a half-year self-publishing of her own creations. They are 5 bilingual books and 2 Russian books. The book you are holding in your hands now is Zoia's book Number 8. The readers of the book will find themselves very pleasantly surprised with Zoia's light and sincere manner of writing, and her sense of humor, as well as they will be able to publish their own book now! Why? Because Zoia opens all "secrets" of self-publishing. She did it 7 times with her seven books, and she sold for one year 92 books. For a self-taught publisher who pays for each title launching to Amazon only $50.00 (US dollars) it is not a bad result for such a short period of time! Zoia is a bilingual professional who lives and works in California. She has a Master's Degree in Education and seven years of Spanish studies, that expands her cultural perception on literature to the three world languages. Zoia has been in the Amazon publishing for the last one year and a half. Her first Russian stories, that later became a book, were first published 15 years ago.
About the Author: Zoia Sproesser's Biographical Summary for Professional Purposes (REVISED by Zoia on September 4, 2011) Zoia Sproesser is a native Russian. She was born in Riga (Latvia) during Soviet Union, but her parents are originally from central Russia. She got a Bachelor's Degree in English and Literature from Latvia State University in 1989, a Master's Degree in Education (Counseling Option) from California State University in San Bernardino in 2002. After her Master's Degree Zoia studied Spanish for 7 and a half years in colleges, CalState Fullerton and online expanding her professional horizons. Zoia is an author of an autobiographical-immigrant book, the chapters of which were being published for a few years in the magazine "Nataly" in St.Petersburg (Russia), a newspaper in Riga (Latvia), and in Russian newspapers in California (West Hollywood) and Colorado, USA. A number of Zoia's stories were published recently on online Russianwomen.com magazine. On Amazon.com, in 2010, Zoia republished her first book "The Girl from California", and she has published seven more books since then, most of them being dual-language Russian-English classics. For a number of years Zoia was doing evaluation and translation of Russian/Soviet educational transcripts and diplomas, providing professional language services to American Educational Research Corporation (AERC) and other business and legal organizations in the USA. Having a warm and dynamic personality, being an optimist who walks through life with a smile, a highly experienced and devoted language teacher, for many years Zoia has been appreciated by her students of Russian and English languages in Riga (Latvia), and in California, USA. Everybody who is interested in learning Russian language or/and about the richness of the Russian culture can find and contact Zoia through Community Education Departments at Citrus College (Glendora, CA) or Mount San Antonio College (Walnut, CA) or personally at zoiariga@yahoo.com. Until recent massive California teachers' lay-offs Zoia had been working for California system of education for 13 years teaching immigrants ESL (English as a Second Language) for Community Colleges and Adult Education.