Reintroducing Myself (3): How Did I Find The Best Publisher?

in 2002 or three shortly after escaping from China to Australia I was invited to a forum in Melbourne about Chinese labor camps organized by a group called The China Study group the speaker talked about the labor camp situation but his information was very outdated after he finished I approached him and said I I just came from China and I know about the camps firsthand it's not like what you just said as it turned out a colonist for the financial review a major newspaper in Australia was also there he immediately asked to interview me he ended up writing a four-page feature about my story then a radio host from ABC read the article and invited me to do a radio show during the Live inter interview I talked about my experiences including the torture I endured and mentioned that I was writing a book it so happened that an editor from Alan and one of Australia's top Publishers heard the interview she got so excited hearing that I was writing a book that she ran to her supervisor and said quick we have to get hold of this book so the ABC host the supervisor reached out to me and said we heard you are writing the book have you found a publisher yet and that time I was writing in Chinese hoping to publish it as quickly as possible but I never thought about an English version so I replied thank you but I'm writing it in Chinese and it's not finished yet to myself surprise they replied quickly it's doesn't matter if it's in Chinese you we can have it translated and if it doesn't matter if it's unfinished just send us the first three chapters and we'll have someone assess it if it looks promising we can translate it once it's done of course I was overjoyed I sent the first three chapters to a lady as request Ed she's a native English speaker who knows Chinese well her name is Su Wells she later became the translator of my book after reading my book she wrote a very short report about only two or three pages and spoke very highly of it so they decided to publish it it took a year for Sue to trans to do the translation so the English version was was thus published in 2005 a year after the Chinese one when my Australian friends heard this they were thrilled for me saying you didn't just find a publisher you found the best one in Australia any and nowan was originally the publisher of The Lord of the Rings and The later told me that in their history this was the first time they had ever signed a book they couldn't understand that was unfinished and that they hadn't even read it was unprecedented and I feel incredibly lucky that's how I found an English publisher before I had even finished writing in Chinese well that's all for today tell me what you want to to to know else and I'll do more videos later