Q: What is the title of the book you helped write?

A: Spanish and Grammar skills workbook for Spanish Ab Initio.

Q: How long did it take you to write this book?

A: About 8 to 10 months just for the writing process.

Q: How many months after you finished writing it fully did it take to get it published?

A: Well after I finished, there were several edits that came to me and I think it took approximately another 6 months for the actual publishing process. The total time was just over a year to write it and fully publish it.

Q: What would you say was the most difficult part of writing it?

A: Every single activity that I created is something that the other author and I have created originally. It was difficult to put myself in the student’s shoes every time I was creating an activity. It was hard to look at the exercises not just as a teacher assigning them but also as a student writing them. Especially since this is a beginner's workbook, creating broken-down exercises was very challenging at times. It’s even worse when you’re creating everything by yourself because a lot of the things in the books that you see in class are original; you cannot just directly take them because there is a copyright on just about everything. So yeah, that was kind of frustrating at times, but it was also nice in a way because, since you’re doing it all, you come up with something completely unique and of your own.

Q: What was your favorite part about the process?

A: I just enjoyed the whole process because, to be very honest, when I got the opportunity for a while I couldn’t believe that I was actually doing it. I never planned or even dreamt of doing it. It was just an opportunity that came my way but I think I really ended up enjoying working with the co-author when we were exchanging exercises and commenting on each others’ work.