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Stop This Game

It’s finally here! Well, not yet, but you can pre-order my book about my life with bipolar disorder.

Stop This Game is my third book in English and I’ve decided to go “wide” from the start this time. It will be available on all ebook retailers (Amazon, Kobo, Apple Books…) on June 13. But as I said, you can already order it on Amazon and Kobo.

This is a fascinating period of life for me. I’ve struggled with bipolar disorder for more than fifteen years. I’ve been hospitalized ten times. I stopped c...

5/9!

Stop igra je postala še peta moja knjiga (od devetih), ki se je uvrstila med priporočila slovenskih knjižnic.

Očitno nekaj delam prav.

https://www.dobreknjige.si/Knjiga.asp...

From zero to hero

Mania doesn’t happen at once, but you can feel it the minute it arrives if you’re attentive and experienced enough. I felt it every time. My cousin once asked me how it feels. I said I start vibrating. The best comparison is the butterflies in your stomach when you’re in love. But I feel it all over my body. You can also recognize mania when you open your eyes in the morning. In an interview for a Slovene magazine, the journalist went with the title ‘If you wake up happy in the morning, you’re a...

Stop igra ni le podstavek za razmajan stol

Stop igra po vseh kriterijih še ni uspešnica. Ne dvomim pa, da bo to sčasoma postala. Pisal sem jo nekaj mesecev, v glavi pa je nastajala petnajst let. Je vse to, kar bi moral biti Manični poet, a ni mogel biti, ker se je zgodil prezgodaj.

Stop igra je zrela knjiga, ker so dogodki v njej dozoreli in sem jo lahko napisal z določene distance, ne pa sredi viharja. Če je bil Manični poet obupan poskus, da povem svojo zgodbo, je Stop igra iskrena izpoved človeka, ki je doživel mnogo in preživel.

S to malo, žepno knjigo ne dobite le podstavka za razmajan stol, ampak boste v svoj bralni kotiček vnesli del mene. Del, ki je, tudi če brez dlake na jeziku govorim o svojem psihičnem stanju, za mnoge skrit. Nobena knjiga ne more povedati vsega, a ta na skoraj dvesto straneh odstre marsikatero tančico.

Hvala vsem, ki ste jo že prebrali in tistim, ki jo še boste. Če se bojite, da ste se znašli v njej, je strah (verjetno) odveč. Če se vam zdi, da bi se morali znajti v njej, pa se niste ... no, morda imate večji problem kot jaz 🙂

Time to level up

It’s been four days since my new book was published and it’s already sold out. The distribution company still has lots of copies, but it takes days or sometimes weeks for them to be available in bookstores and libraries. So as I write this post, Stop igra can’t be bought anywhere. You can order it, but you’ll have to wait for about ten days to get your copy.

I acted swiftly and the book is already being reprinted. Another hundred copies will join the initial four hundred. That number may seem low...

The first cut is the deepest

When it comes to bipolar disorder (or any other mental condition) people want to know how and where it began. I answer the best I can but I switch stories. Why? Because I have no idea about my first time.

I decided ages ago I wanted to talk about my life with bipolar disorder. It’s therapeutic and I keep reliving the moments most people would want to forget. Why is this a good thing? Because I can learn from my mistakes so I don’t repeat them in the future. The more I talk about my episodes (mos...

Time to heal

It’s been more than a month since I wrote my last post. A lot of things were (and still are) going on. Mostly good stuff.

My new book Stop igra (Stop the Game) is in print. It will be published on January 3. I already got about a hundred preorders. That is a record for any of my books. I guess it’s normal I have high hopes about it.

I was a guest on national radio in November. We talked about bipolar disorder and I enjoyed the conversation. You can listen to the show here. It’s in Slovene and it l...

Stop igra

Odprta je čakalna vrsta za mojo novo knjigo Stop igra, v kateri opisujem svoje življenje z bipolarno motnjo.

Avtobiografski roman je pravzaprav nadaljevanje in nadgradnja knjige Manični poet, vsebuje pa več zgodb, več pogleda vase ter več idej in nasvetov, kako živeti s to zahrbtno boleznijo. V njej so tudi pričevanja drugih ljudi in uradni zapisniki iz psihiatrične bolnišnice, kar daje knjigi veliko dodano vrednost.

PRIJAVI SE

Z vpisom v čakalno vrsto si zagotovite ugodnejšo ceno, knjigo pa boste prejeli med prvimi.

They Named Him Primo for $0.99!

The first book in my Primo's War series is on sale this week.



You can get it for 99c until June 12.

Get your copy now

Opening Lines

Every story has its beginning. But people who’ve read my books know that I like to start somewhere in the middle, where things are already in motion. That way the story can immediately pull you in. Or spit you out. Both ways are good. Why? Because I’m losing readers after the first few pages (lines) and I don’t allow them to stick around, feeling bad and give up halfway through.

Why am I doing this? Because I’m a decent human being...

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