Ivana Hruba
About Ivana Hrubá
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Betraying not a glimmer of thought in her deep-set wandering eyes, the author treads a fine line between profound stupidity and misunderstood genius...Laughing

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Ivana Hrubá is a lovely, lovely girl and a writer of  some notable talent, the sum of which, for lack of other  options, will very modestly be noted here.  Specializing in writing  bold, quirky and outrageously entertaining fiction, Ivana is what we call an undiscovered gem, an exotic island waiting to be explored or, as some people say, a territory best left uncharted.
 
     Ivana devised her first novel at the tender age of twelve when she was but a wee little girl wearing out her brother's hand-me-downs, chasing the geese off the village green in her native Czech Republic which was then under communist rule. Filled  with poultry and very long sentences, Ivana's idyllic childhood came to an abrupt end in 1983 when she and her family crossed the Alps on foot to seek a new life free of communists and their blasted queues. After a year spent frolicking in a West German refugee camp, the family finally had a gutful of that sort of adventure, and they settled in Australia in 1984 where they've been living it up ever since.
 
     Following the publication of 'A Decent Ransom', Ivana has developed the habit of talking about herself in the third person, a skill that comes in particularly handy when writing biographies. To this end, Ivana has also conquered her fear of appearing ridiculous due to excessive bragging as can be seen in this intro right here. In the tradition of all gifted folk, working for a living has never appealed to our author; therefore, Ivana has largely given up on that idea, preferring to spend her time writing books. How long she can keep it up will depend on how well her books sell... Bearing this in mind, Ivana, always one to look on the bright side, has been busy putting her fingers to the keyboard writing a new novel, a work  of such  monumental significance it has to, for the time being, remain shrouded in mystery.
 
     At the close of each day, Ivana likes to unwind with a vat of wine (at times even two vats), drawing cartoons for her own amusement. To unwind from that pleasure, she takes her dogs, cats, mice, lice, ponies, chickens and goldfish for a walk down the beach. It's a good life for everyone involved  and until recently Ivana enjoyed herself tremendously in it.  However, recent events, namely the untimely demise of her publisher Kunati Inc., have left Ivana feeling rather flat, like she had lost the key to the executive washroom. Yes, the Key to the Executive Washroom! Some of you who are fellow Published Authors will understand completely the scope of her devastation, for obtaining the Key to the Executive Washroom is the Mecca of all writers. It comes as no surprise then that having once obtained it, Ivana had every intention of holding onto it. Yes, Ivana had liked having that key.

      Not a day went by without Ivana mentioning to all and sundry that she was a Published Author with a Two Book Deal and that Sales of A Decent Ransom: A Story of a Kidnapping Gone Right were Trending Upwards. On the days when Fan Mail arrived, there was no stopping her; armed with her trusty wine funnel, she trumpeted the news far and wide, catching unsuspecting passers-by at the bus stop, at the bakery, and on the school run. Yes, people, those were giddy times.

     Ah well, all good things must come to an end. Her publisher 's exit from the market economy had, for a moment or two, dampened Ivana’s spirits but she had since got over it and is now determined to get herself another key to the executive loo. She’s even hoping for a bigger, more established and dare she say more financially stable executive loo to offer her a key.

     Will it happen? It might. After all, the Lord does work in mysterious ways, so it’s onwards and upwards for our intrepid young(ish) author who has pulled herself up by the boot straps and has been firing off queries left, front and centre. We’ll keep you posted how it pans out.

p.s. To see how it's panning out for our author, go to News and Events @ this website ...Wink

     

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Favorites:
What makes life worth living: good conversation, good coffee, chocolate, original ideas, saving the planet for all creatures big and small, kindness, people who do not take themselves seriously, European forests, Prague, Ostrava in the early 1980s, cobble-stoned streets anywhere, cute bear cubs, skateboarding, walking dogs on the beach, traveling back in time, writing, drawing cartoons, and of course, good books...Wink
 

Other favourites include:
Old people driving slowly on busy roads on busy days, geometrically shaped trees, saxophone solos, people who won't buy the book but will watch the movie, queues at the bank, queues at the taxi rank, queues anywhere really, paying good money for a concert ticket only to find a real tall person in the seat in front of you, inexplicable skin irritations, haemorroids, women of that 'certain age' asking people how old they think they are, fat people suffering high self-esteem, skinny people suffering low self-esteem, men with beards, women with beards, men with an eye for a pretty young thing, women who date inmates, all sequels and prequels, newlyweds, new parents and people who relentlessly flog their books any which way possible ...WinkWink

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