zuzochka. ekaterina called her very first book that way. ekaterina herself found an illustrator and confidently told her: i want to publish a book, the illustrator got involved in the work , and a visual image of zuzochka was born, as ekaterina recalls, from that moment there was no turning back, there remained the most difficult thing for a beginning writer - to find a publishing house, probably, out of 100 letters sent to the publishing house, there were just about 10 percent of responses, just the answer that we considered, but the manuscript was not suitable for some reason, i did not post the tales online, but i had, let's say, beta readers, that is, people who wanted to read these tales, they filled out a questionnaire, of course, someone wrote, i don't understand this tale, i didn't like it, i don't understand, someone wrote the opposite about the same tale, but i liked it, that is, i see here already understood that it is impossible to please everyone. ekaterina had to make a choice, or succumb to uncertainty, like, do i write so we