Barbora Knobova wears many hats. She’s a writer, a love coach and an expert in Delicious Life (as she likes to call it). She loves to travel and is one of those rare world citizens who can live anywhere and nowhere.
Barbora is also a firm believer in female friendship, loyalty and bonding which makes for a terrific background in writing her latest book, Tales for Delicious Girls. She writes hilarious, sharp-witted, caustically apt, ironic, moving, true books for strong, independent, smart, fearless women for which Tales for Delicious Girls is based.
So where did Barbora get her humble start? Where writers usually start – as a kid who loved creating new worlds and characters who could go where she couldn’t go and could live where she couldn’t live.
“I’ve always been a bookworm,” she says. “My grandfather was a writer and books have always been very important in the life of my family. I learned to read and write when I was four years old and I’ve been in love with literature ever since.”
As she grew older, Barbora was determined she wanted to write a book about women and for women. “I think we women are absolutely amazing and our world is full of power, strength, empathy, love. I knew I would eventually write a women's book but I couldn't find the right moment and inspiration. I had been writing articles for magazines for years but it was nothing like writing a book. My muse was still sleeping and it was actually my mum who woke her up. She said: ‘Your dating life is just insane! All these stories would make a great book. Why don't you put them down on paper?’ I was reluctant at first but then I decided to give it a try.”
Barbora ended up writing Tales for Delicious Girls twice. Her first book was published in Europe in 2007 and called Stories for Big Girls which ended up becoming a bestseller and not only was nominated for two literary awards, but appeared on the list of 25 Best Books of the Year. Stories for Big Girls was the starting point for Tales for Delicious Girls, although Tales for Delicious Girls went deeper, she says.
“I studied my and my friends’ love life and it involved long evenings spent over Earl Grey and cookies, talking about men, relationships and love,” she says. “I even met some of my ex-boyfriends, which was so much fun. Thanks to my book research, many of them even became my friends and all negative feelings from the past were forgotten.
“Once I started writing, I realized that there was much more to my stories. That they outlined my own personal path to self-love, self-respect and relationship maturity, that there was lots of personal growth in them. At the time I started working as a love coach and I knew many women who were fighting the same battles I had fought a long time ago. Therefore I wanted my book to be much more than a simple short-story book. I wanted it to be hilarious so that women could laugh and have a good time when reading it, but at the same time I wanted to make them think about their own life, about their relationships and about their choices. To offer them solutions to relationship dilemmas and to show them that it's never too late to turn things around. And I managed to do that, as it seems, because a friend of mine, a psychologist who works with women and couples, uses my book as a therapy book, which is absolutely wonderful.
“I have written this book for women. For women who are smart, independent, fun-loving and fearless. And also for women that are struggling and trying to find themselves and the right life path. For women who are young and still have many things to experience. And for women who have already had their share of life experience. It is simply a book for all women out there. And therefore I hope it makes women happy, I hope it brings something special into their life. I hope it amuses them and I also hope it helps them with their issues and insecurities, should they have any.
“The message of the book is very strong and if women identify with the stories I tell, the message will be delivered, which is the most important thing for me and the reason I wrote Tales for Delicious Girls.”
You can visit Barbora on the web at www.barboraknobova.com or pick up a copy of her book online here.
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