My latest short story, Journal of a DNA Pirate , was published in the latest anthology AfroSFv3 . Background: In 2010, while writing my speculative fiction novel, Soul Searching, and having sent it to a top SA publisher (waiting and waiting) I decided to carry on writing. But I wanted something simple and not as bogged down in size as a novel. I decided a blog style story would work to be able to write every day (almost every day) and rather than having a preconceived idea of where the story needed to go, I would take each day where I left off. I left it for a while (no ending done) and then revisited it in 2011. And that was it. During this time I had two large publishers in SA take the Soul Searching manuscript for two years each (with revisions done) before they finally rejected (first – 2009-2011; second – 2011-2013). I took that as a sign that my writing had something to it. I carried on tweaking the novel. Then in 2014, Fox & Raven publishers in SA had a call for
Guardbridge Books has offered to publish Soul Searching ! Aiming for an April 2020 release. The work now begins on revisions and edits to really polish off the manuscript. I will be posting regularly on social media about that progress... 12 October 2019 Tucking into the notes. Making revisions. #amediting #sf #SoulSearching2020 15 October 2019 Paper notes and edits done. Next step 💻
2015-2019 'Land of Light' - 'Imagine Africa 500' speculative fiction anthology (2015/2016) (Speculative Fiction). 8,000 words. Read more... 'Veiled ' - 2016 'Beneath This Skin' Edition of Aké Review (2016) (Fiction). 1,450 words. Read here... 'Water' - 'The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! Vol.2' anthology (2017) (Fiction). 3,100 words. Read more... 'Sub Migratio' - the debut edition of Enkare Review (2017) (Speculative Fiction). 3,500 words. Read here... 'Inktober' - 2018 edition of 'The Bloody Parchment' (SF/Horror). 1,250 words - coming Oct 2018. ‘The Girl with Two Bodies’ – The Kalahari Review (Nov 2018) (Fantasy). 7,050 words. South Africa. . Read here... 'Journal of a DNA Pirate' -Volume 3 of 'AfroSF' (Dec 2018) (SF). 8,150 words - Available on Amazon etc. ‘Why Not Magoos’ – The Kalahari Review (Oct 2019) (Fiction). 2,600 words. South Africa. R