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Continue reading →: June Adventures and 2o22 so Far!June is a great month to reassess plans and ideas. 2022 has been a series of small and massive changes, from stocking up on cooking oil to learning how to seriously create TikTok vids, trying not to binge on Stranger Things on Netflix, and seriously failing, the ’80s were fun. …
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Continue reading →: What Information Goes on the Copyright Page of a book in Kenya?You have completed your book. You are now ready for publishing in our beautiful country of Kenya. You need a copyright page in both the e-Book and Printed Format. The copyright page is the second or third page depending on the items you have planned for the first pages. It…
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Continue reading →: 3 Popular Questions Asked about e-Books in KenyaQuestion 1: How do I create an e-Book in Kenya? Is it easy? A. This depends on the type of book you want to create. A book filled with prose like a story, or a non-fiction book with no graphs, tables, and pictures is easy. You only need Microsoft Word/Apple’s…
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Continue reading →: Ash PrincessAsh Princess by Laura Sebastian Theodosia was six when her country was invaded and her mother, the Fire Queen, was murdered before her eyes. On that day, the Kaiser took Theodosia’s family, her land, and her name. Theo was crowned Ash Princess–a title of shame to bear in her new…
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Continue reading →: Caraval – Book ReviewCaraval by Stephanie Garber Scarlett Dragna has never left the tiny island where she and her sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval—the faraway, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in…
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Continue reading →: April 2022’s Reading ListThe April Reading List only has two books. ^_^That’s about how many I could get in this April. They were both intense books. I now think I probably needed the month to read both of them. My excuse is very valid. ^_^ Here is my list for April 2022 :…
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Continue reading →: A Snippet of Fiction – The Price of AmberHappy May! I’m so excited to share snippets of the story Ram and Amber, which now has a tentative name ‘The Price of Amber’. Still not in love with the title, in any case, I’m excited to have a 10K word count on this project. There is nothing like getting…
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Continue reading →: A Thousand Splendid SunsA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty years – from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding – that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country…
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Continue reading →: Homegoing – ReviewHomegoing by Yaa Gyasi Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle’s dungeons,…
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Continue reading →: March 2022’s Reading ListBelonging This book is available from Furaha Publishers in Kigali, Rwanda. It is about: Keza, who is in search of a place she can truly call hers. She carries on her shoulders a difficult past faced by her ancestors: her parents, grandparents, and relatives in her Tutsi tribe. Because of…
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