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After coming
back from New Zealand -- "A
Journey to Middle Earth" -- we wrote our trip's memo
at the online forum to share the experience for travelers in
the cyber space. We posted the story right at the same place
we used to search for New Zealand information before making a
journey in order to repay other friends (in the community)
who would be the next generation of New Zealand travelers.
After describing the tale, a book-editor from "TIB -
Thai Inter
Book" found our story and contacted us to make a pocket
book
about the experience of our New Zealand trip.
As soon as
receiving a message from the editor, we took a few days to
make this crucial decision. Because loving of expedition and
adventure, at a hidden part of our mind, we used to dream
about having our own traveling pocket book for a long long time. And
now, the chance had come pretty close to us, just waiting for
our answer. Anyway, it was such a difficult determination since we were not confident about our writing skill.
Moreover, we were so afraid if finding out that people would
not favor or buy our book. It might be very terrible if the
book sales are not going well. However, at the end, we took this
chance to fulfill our dream and answered "yes" to the editor.
During a few
months of writing this pocket book, though we did not know our
destiny, we had worked so hard to complete and tried as good
as possible. Making corrections again and again because we
were quite amateur as a writer, we finally finished all every
part of the book. After sending all story to the editor, it
took a couple more months to work on proofreading and graphic
designing.
Around the end
of February, the editor sent us the final draft
to re-check for the last time. As soon as receiving the draft, we were so
excited since our dream almost came true. After attaching all
pictures and graphic work in the story, now it seemed like we
were reading a "New Zealand Guidebook", 100% written by us. We
tried to finish the final check as soon as possible (about
five days, all days and nights like working in the factory to
complete 400 pages more or less in total) before returning to
the editor. After that the editor would re-check again for the
last time and sent the master copy to the printing house. From
this step, we had to wait (again) for 7-10 days while the book
on the process. During this 7-10 days (about the early of
March), we felt like it was so long since the time had passed
so slow. And a couple day after the mid of March, the editor
called us again and told us that our pocket book's printing
process had been done. And all of them would be sent to the
store house of "Amarin
Printing & Publishing Company Limited", one of the biggest
publishing group in Thailand, before distributed through out
the country. Surely, the editor would give us one sample book
at this time via the mail first.
 Finally,
today we have got the pocket book sent right to our home in
Chiang Mai in the morning. We are so excited while trying to
open the envelope. As soon as finding the "real one" in our
hand, both of us are very happy after working hard and wait
for months. At the end, the dream about having owned the
pocket book becomes real.
However, we
have only one day to watch and hug this book. A few days from
now will be our mom birthday and with no doubt the book would
be the big surprise from both of us since no one in our family
has known about this pocket book even a hint. We just take
pictures together with our book before giving to the mom.
"Yeah!" ... And
this is all of the story. From now, we just keep a bit waiting
for the book to be sent to the bookstore in Chiang Mai -- ""M&O"
on the Shelf".
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