Golden Box Book Publishing Portfolio of author Erika M Szabo | Page 4

I get inspirations mostly from my life experiences, people I
meet, childhood memories.
I was a young teenager when grandma sold her house and asked
me to help to clean the attic. I’ve found a rolled-up leather
scroll-like document with fancy writing and grandpa’s name in
it in an old wicker basket. Grandma said it was the deed to the
300 acres land grandpa owned before the communists took it
away and turned it into a government property. The deed was
called “dog skin” and grandma explained that back then paper
was scarce. When the family dogs died, the owners preserved
the animal’s skin to use as paper for important documents.
One day I recalled this memory and it triggered an avalanche of
unrelated thoughts. That’s when the idea for my book “Cursed
Bloodline” was born.
Or when I watched a video about a talking parrot and it made
me think. What if the parrot only speaks Spanish and nobody
understands him? I wrote the story and when I showed it to the
translator who was working on my fantasy series, she thought it
would make a great book if I'd add the English and Spanish
pages side by side. This is how the story of Pico, the Pesky
Parrot was born.
My children's book, Look I Can Talk With My Fingers, is
special to me. I meet a lot of wonderful people with some form
of disability in my line of work as a nurse. It always saddens me
when I see the difficulties their illness or condition cause and
the ridicule and isolation they have to endure.