About two years ago, I wrote a blog post saying I had finished a manuscript for a novel. Well, here’s the deal. It’s not yet… Read More »Project Update: That novel I said I had finished two years ago? Ha! Ha! Ha! Not even close
It’s been about 18 months now since I finished the manuscript for my first novel. In April last year, I started sending it out to agents. To lots of agents. But no one wanted to nibble at that hook. You know that feeling when you’re dancing your heart out on the dance floor and no one else will join you? Ya, that’s what hit me. Was I at this party alone? Would I always be alone? Somebody join me! Please! This song rocks!Read More »How not to get an agent for your book
I wrote my first complete manuscript when I was 12 years old. It was a mystery story, inspired by reading too much Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and The Three Investigators. The protagonist was a teenage boy called Jack Foster, who solved mysteries 😀 (It wasn’t until I was 14 that I read any African writers so my characters were all from foreign lands). Read More »After 30 years, I finally finished a novel and this is how I did it
I recently completed the manuscript for my first novel. After I had finished the last sentence and jumped up and down with excitement, I kept a promise I made to myself a few weeks ago when I finished reading Amanda Palmer’s The Art of Asking. Read More »The generosity of others