SPECIAL ANNOUCEMENT!!!

 For those of you who know me, you know how long I have always pushed not publishing any of my books. I have always loved to write since I was very little. I even helped people copy notes in secondary school, that’s how much I enjoy it.

When I got to the University and people read my book, they kept asking me to publish. But I kept telling them “Not yet.”

All I did was write and keep them. I can’t even find some I have written anymore.

Looking back now, I realise I was struggling with Imposter’s Syndrome; believing that your talents, skills or achievements are not good enough. (You can read more about this online.) A lot of us suffer from this without realizing it until much much later.You feel everyone is better than you.

I love Chinua Achebe (God bless his soul) and Chimamanda Adichie so much as writers. But for a long time, I thought my books were not good like theirs, so why publish? Who would even want to read my books?

I can go on and on how much I struggled with these. Thank God for awesome people He placed in my life and classes I attended. I finally began to see how much I have been accepting lies.

This year 2020, I decided I would publish one of them. I started writing this book in January. I was done around March. But I was still scared to publish.

I began taking confessions, telling myself that I could do it and I would not let fear rule me anymore. I would release this book, people will buy it, read it and love it. It’s not as easy as I write it oo; there are days I abandon the book, there are days when I feel so pumped up about it.

Then I was supposed to publish in July. Reaching out to friends, I got an editor pro bono, a graphic designer who helped me with the book design at a very affordable fee.

I was ready. Then the fear came again. This time, it came in another for; anytime I looked at the book, all I saw were mistakes here and there, I kept seeing what I should have added or removed. And that’s how it didn’t happen in July again.

August came like play, like play. I began to doubt if I would ever do away with this fear. One day, I read what someone posted somewhere, “The only way to deal with your fear, is to confront it.”

That was what I needed! The only way I can do away with this, is to publish this book!

And I am doing that because come September, BLOOD ON HER will be released. I am so excited about it and I want you all to share this joy with me. I will be dropping more details as I progress.