...twines around a single day, in an unremarkable border village that snuffs out the lives of four people and shatters many others, only to draw the survivors back to a different time and, perhaps, a hope of atonement and peace.
Step out on the journey and discover an Africa that could have been, is and might one day come to be.
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The childhood ordeal of tragic Biafran war orphan, Teresa Olatunde, is the fateful catalyst for the savage events at the heart of Milele Safari
Deciding where to start a story is not always clear cut and, because I came at this book with a story plan that was loosely based on The Canterbury Tales, that followed several people's experiences, there's a fair amount of flashbacks and jumping ahead, whilst following along the main timeline of the safari. I hope I succeeded in making sense of the flow in the novel, but when I began to look ahead to marketing issues and found a need for a book blog, I quickly realised that I needed to streamline things more, so people could get a flavour of what goes on, and where, in the story more clearly.
We first meet main character, Sophie Taylor and her safari companions on the Zambian side of Victoria Falls, and the story roughly follows their itinerary from there into Zimbabwe and then Uganda and finally, after it's over, into Tanzania where Sophie starts her new job. A magazine treatment, based on their journey (with the odd deviation when the backstory dictated) gradually presented itself as a useful solution for the blog, as it gave me an opportunity to include some of my own personal background, influences and research information on the countries in whichMilele Safariare set, and to including short synopses on each of the Tales that 'happen' in that region. What's good for my own blog should surely work for a blog tour too! So, this is your personal invitation to join me on a 'blog safari' that tells the true-life inside story behind Milele Safari, through the real and almost real lands depicted in the book...
... the Tales play out through the auspices of several point of view characters and their narratives, some through flashbacks into the past, or through a journal device that joins the various strands of their Tales together.
Today the MILELE SAFARI BLOG is tickled pink to be one of the first hosting venues for RAVE REVIEWS BOOK CLUB'S 'Back to School' Block Party People!
You are currently somewhere near LAUNCESTON in NORTH CORNWALL, UK!
BUT FIRST here are my...
GRRRRR-eat GIVEAWAYS!
(I'm happy to ship outside the UK!)
For SEPTEMBER 1st only I have some
BRILLIANT PRIZES FOR 4 LUCKY VISITORS...
(Here's some jungley music while you're browsing!)
LATE ENTRY - BONUS GIVEAWAY!
Because we had so much fun yesterday, I decided to put in a bonus prize which will give visitors after September 1st a chance to win one of my Giveaways too...
So ~ the first person to answer this question IN ACCURATE DETAIL correctly wins!
WHAT EXACTLY GIVES THE DISTINCTIVE FLAVOUR OF AMARULA LIQUEUR?
(for those of you who've got the book - the answer's in there somewhere!)
The childhood ordeal of tragic Biafran war orphan, Teresa Olatunde, is the fateful catalyst for the savage events at the heart of Milele Safari
Deciding where to start a story is not always clear cut and, because I came at this book with a story plan that was loosely based on The Canterbury Tales, that followed several people's experiences, there's a fair amount of flashbacks and jumping ahead, whilst following along the main timeline of the safari. I hope I succeeded in making sense of the flow in the novel, but when I began to look ahead to marketing issues and found a need for a book blog, I quickly realised that I needed to streamline things more, so people could get a flavour of what goes on, and where, in the story more clearly.
We first meet main character, Sophie Taylor and her safari companions on the Zambian side of Victoria Falls, and the story roughly follows their itinerary from there into Zimbabwe and then Uganda and finally, after it's over, into Tanzania where Sophie starts her new job. A magazine treatment, based on their journey (with the odd deviation when the backstory dictated) gradually presented itself as a useful solution for the blog, as it gave me an opportunity to include some of my own personal background, influences and research information on the countries in whichMilele Safariare set, and to including short synopses on each of the Tales that 'happen' in that region. What's good for my own blog should surely work for a blog tour too! So, this is your personal invitation to join me on a 'blog safari' that tells the true-life inside story behind Milele Safari, through the real and almost real lands depicted in the book...
... the Tales play out through the auspices of several point of view characters and their narratives, some through flashbacks into the past, or through a journal device that joins the various strands of their Tales together.
Well, this is my very first professional foray into blog tours courtesy of 4Wills Publishing and RRBC fellow author/member Jason Zandri.
I'll be visiting 7 others blogs over the next week ending on the 4th July :-D
It's actually better as a presentation but at least this way you get to see it online without any clunky powerpoint downloads :-P
Now I'm getting my marketing/promo act together finally this will be going the rounds with me at other signings and book club appearances etc to I'll keep you posted as to when and where (having done a sneaky recce at Kingsbridge Library last week! :-D)
... been neglecting things big time in here, but it WAS because I've been busy editing and publishing a fantasy anthology for DreamWorlds Publishing and giving my friend and editor Sue Bridgwater's novel Perian's Journey a bit of a redesign and a new eBook edition.
Really busy getting it all out in time for Christmas, but on the plus side for Milele the online review/ book club I joined up with had me as their member of the month in December so Milele's had a bit of a push sales-wise and hopefully will grow some more reviews soon :-D
Will try and get in here a little more often this year...
To find out what happened with the Ficitivity Press cometition go HERE- if not then I'll just say that I won and Ficitivity are beavering away on my shiny FB for Milele as we speak! ;-)
… is (probably) to publishing what King Herod was to enlightened baby care? Cream floats naturally – so do other thingies that you most certainly don’t want on your coffee, strawberries, or ‘you’re worth it’ face :-P
However – some things are worth competing for, especially if it’s a fab FaceBook ad campaign for your debut novel. Doubly so when you suck at doing FB ad campaigns which I do – royally!
Twenty years ago, on April 7th 1994, the genocide of between 500,000-800,000 Tutsis, liberal Hutu and Twa began. The true number of victims will never be known. Fictional Zyanda and part of the main storyline in Milele Safari is partially based upon the brutal events that happened in Rwanda over the course of a little over 3 months. To mark this bleak anniversary, during April through to 15th July 2014 my author profits of Milele Safari will be donated to UK relief agency ShelterBox* in memory of the thousands of people who lost their lives in 1994. *ShelterBox operations manager in Helston, Cornwall, John Leach has my sincere gratitude for his invaluable contribution to the research undertaken for Milele Safari on how NFI aid (non-food items) is deployed during an emergency, such as the landslide incident described in the closing chapters of the novel.
:-) Well we got there eventually! For some reason it seemed to take forever to come onto the system after I got the Barnes & Noble/NOOK PRESS vendor account set up last weekend.
Anyway - HERE IS THE LINK TO NOOK
As you probably know eBooks have to be much cheaper than physical ones so it's £2.99* as opposed to £11.50 - 11.99 (depending on exchange)
For US/oversees visitors it's $4.79 or $18.95
Full(er) list of online merchants is HEREon the DreamWorlds Publishing site ;-)
*Which is still a bargain compared to mainstream publishers prices who'll happily charge you over a fiver for 'star' authors eBooks ><
Will finally be able to finish off the ePub submission with Nook (Barnes and Noble's Kindle equivalent) - for non-US peeps there was a problem with self-publishing your work on Nook without a US bank account.
Today it was announced that Nook's new international arm's opened up the vendor market to the UK and EU countries (well most of them anyway) which in turn means that I can finalise my vendor details for selling the ePub version of Milele Safari on the B&N site ;-)
Well - after a few hiccups like forgetting to put my name on it as the author Milele Safari is now available in Kindle format and on sale on Amazon!
It will eventually go out on NOOK (Barnes & Noble) and Apple iBooks but it's enough to get it on the virtual shelves of Amazon so I'm not about to cry into my beer anymore after my foolish naivety with Ingrams (see post below). And by putting the ePub format up with them too the title's also available on any number of other eBookstores albeit not too well-known outside of the USA (mostly - there's about 2 in the UK and a handful in Brazil, India and Thailand as well on the ePub distribution list) so pretty much all internet bases covered :-)
Onwards and Upwards as they say (and I did! In Onwards and Upwards, chapter 4...) :p
