Meet Patricia Bala, a Laboratory Scientist who has just published her first book titled “SUCCESS”. Ms Patricia Bala is from Rigo District in the Central Province and married to Gaire village and a young mother of two beautiful young boys. Ms. Bala stated that it was always her passion to write a book and publish it and throughout her life she has being writing but to write a book, the determination was strong last year. “I started writing my book “Success” last year, 2022 around May and by December 2022 my book was complete.” “But finding a publisher was another issue to go through from January until now.” Ms. Bala expressed gratitude to Publisher Mr. Shane Baiva, who is a local Publisher from the Shane Baiva Publishing House who finally agreed to publish Ms. Bala’s Book. Bala described that book as a biography of her own life from her elementary school days through to grade 12, saying that is only part 1 of her life story from her childhood. “I am surrounded by successful people and this book is my own Success that I hope will be an inspiration to others so that they can also be successful in their own corner.” “This book is aimed at inspiring young school kids and there are about 140 pages and 10 chapters in my book and because it’s aimed at school kids, there is a glossary section at the back on the book.” She described her journey in writing has a tough one, given her background as a Laboratory Scientist. She said, words were not her thing when she deals with numbers and formulas daily, but it was the burning passion for writing that drove her to write her book. “When at work I spend every lunch break to write and 2 hours when I am on call to write and whenever I am free at home I try to write, and I am thankful for my husband who is always understandable and allows me to take time off from home chores to write.” Bala added that writers know that if you want to write about something, you must get it well researched, or it must be something you know from your heart so for her it was her own experience down the memory lane. She also mentioned that this book has taken her on a very different journey in life and has made her more passionate to write more books and already there are people approaching her to write about their biography so this is one area of story writing she might tap into, and she is excited about it. She is now encouraging writers around the country to continue write. “Publishing can be hard but keep writing, if PNG don’t read your book, then there is a whole world out there to read your book so whatever you want to write about just write it.” “My book “SUCCESS” is up for sale now for K150 and the money raised from the sale will go towards setting up a library in my village Lalomarugu, in Rigo District, Central Province.”