It would be very wrong of me to presume my blog is being widely read — forget the Google ranking — but I’m trying to get some Nigerians who frequent my blog to assist me with my book.
I made a post on Nairaland but so far no one has come to the rescue. I’ll sit [...]

I’ve taken off the former prologue and started with something I think is more feminine. Here’s an excerpt from what I’ve written so far:
Ramat stood in the rain, fiddling with her car keys and trying to get one into the keyhole. She was completely soaked — her blouse stuck like a second skin, and her [...]

I’ve been very busy for some days now, reading books that explore the outlook of women on various aspects of life — sexuality, community, friendship, beauty — and I keep learning new things. Women are exotic and it pays to see things through their eyes in a man’s world.
I’m currently drawing up the psyche of [...]

I started a book last year — or deceived myself that I was starting one. It’s called The Farce and the plot’s a Niger Delta conspiracy in Nigeria.
I’m taking two unusual stances in it — writing in the first person as a young liberal muslim lady in Nigeria. I’m not female — and neither am [...]

My novel-reading career started with Dickens’ The Great Expectations when I was five. Since then, I’ve read more than 10,000 books. When I penned my first story at the age of eight, I had come to realize that stereotypes exist in the world of fiction — nothing in most fiction is true to life.
It seems, [...]

I checked my mail today and I saw an extra-large envelope from Vantage Press. I wondered what business I had with them. On slitting it, I discovered there was something about offering to publish my book. Everything fell into place.
There was a program on their site that caters to up-and-coming writers. I requested information and [...]