Iza Garztecka - Agencja Literacka Helfa - to złodziej i oszustka.

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Iza Garztecka - Agencja Literacka Helfa - to złodziej i oszustka.

Garztecka sprzedała moją powieść wydawnictwu. W pażdzierniku 2005 roku otrzymała z wydawnictwa zaliczkę za moją powieść. Z zaliczki miała sobie potrącić swoją 10% dolę a resztę przesłać do mnie. Zamiast tego, przez 14 miesięcy okłamywała mnie, że jakoby wydawca nie zapłacił, ale że stale naciskała, i że już... że wkrótce... że na pewno uzyska wypłatę zaliczki. Aż wreszcie wyparowała razem z pieniędzmi - zamknęła interes.

Nie jestem jedynym okradzionym przez Garztecką - patrz komentarz do mojej angielskiej notki. Andrew Lownie informuje, że syn Garzteckiej otwiera agencję literacką. Proceder będzie kwitł...

Adresy, którymi posługiwała / posługuje się ta oszustka:

Agencja Literacka Helfa

Halina Jabłonowska-Garztecka / Iza Garztecka

(Helfa Literary Agency)
www.helfa.pl
helfa@helfa.pl
garztecka@helfa.pl

Aleje Jerozolimskie 198f m 5
02-486 Warszawa

Aleje Jerozolimskie 195 m 5
02-486 Warsaw

Zielna 45/90
01-108 Warszawa

Grójecka 28/30 m.23
02-308 Warszawa

Telefony:

+48 (22) 620 55 15

+48 (22) 817 35 50

komórka: +48 509 464 787

Helfa Literary Agency is a thief and a cheat

Something disappointing happened to me today:
I learned that my European agent is a thief and a liar.

Iza Garztecka, proprietor of Helfa Literary Agency, sold translation rights to my novel to a Polish publisher.

In October 2005 she took the money on my behalf and lied for over a year that Publisher did not pay.

Then she closed shop, even went so far as sending me information through a third person saying that she died... along with all her debts. It was, of course, a lie.

Iza Garztecka robbed me. She is a thief.

Contact me if you are an author, agent or a publisher and want more information or have been robbed by her too.

Be aware of this cheat.

See the follow up to this story.

Addresses this agency was/is using:

Helfa Literary Agency
Agencja Literacka Helfa
Halina Jablonowska-Garztecka (Iza Garztecka)

www.helfa.pl
helfa@helfa.pl
garztecka@hela.pl

Aleje Jerozolimskie 198f m 5
02-486 Warszawa

Aleje Jerozolimskie 195 m 5
02-486 Warsaw , Poland

Zielna 45/90
01-108 Warszawa, Poland

Grojecka 28/30 m.23
02-308 Warszawa, Poland

Telephone numbers:

+48 (22) 620 55 15

+48 (22) 817 35 50

cell phone: +48 509 464 787

Amber liquor - cure for everything?

Made a bottle of amber liqueur.

Used 98% Alc/vol Spirit (spirytus) over grains of natural Baltic amber.

It tastes wicked, sort of like PineSol, but man-oh-man is it ever potent. One shot glass of this stuff does what a bottle of wine used to.

Had one shot and wrote a whole chapter of my novel.

By the way, the liquor is for medicinal purposes. Amber vodka in Polish folk medicine is said to be a remedy for: flu, asthma, rheumatism, pneumonia, and heart ailments (?), and as I found out it aids creativity too.

Here's how to make it.

Ingredients, per 250ml:

1. 98% spirit (had to import it from Europe - not available here)


2. 20 - 40 grains of amber

Place amber in the bottle, add the spirit. Cap. Wait five days.

How to use:

1: Add a few drops to tea, or whatever you are going to drink. 2: Rub into sore joints.

You can use the same amber twice.

One shot glass cured my sore throat and, I swear, I felt rejuvenated - could not stop jumping, it was so potent ;)

Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara

Today marks the anniversary of the death of one of the most significant figures in Liberation Theology and social justice.

Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara was a catholic archbishop in Brazil.

He was instrumental in delineating the course of Liberation Theology, a premise for my latest novel.

To cut to the chase let me post some quotes from the colorful Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara:

"When I give food to the poor the call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist."

"I will never carry a weapon and will never kill anyone. But I am ready to give life for the poor."

"The greatest problem of the Church is not a lack of priests, rather the hunger faced by the people."