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Gamine (f)
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its about a young girl's journey through lots of hardship and how she caught up with destiny 
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Seun (m)
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Congratulations on completing the cover of your book. Now you have to compose the actual contents. Good luck!
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NSNA
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Congratulations on completing the cover of your book. Now you have to compose the actual contents. Good luck!

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Gamine (f)
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i have the contents bo  i would post some excerpts when i hv time just wanted u to feel the cover first 
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showbobo (m)
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WOOW.thats greattttttt.i never knew you had such nice talent.let us know when its out so that we can also get some copies on Nairaland.and is that u on the cover page?? 
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Gamine (f)
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PartONE:Who i Used to BE
My Habits and Me
I’ve always loved to watch. Yeah I loved to just sit back and watch people, trying to understand their reasons. I wasn’t a shy kid but my deliberate quietness gave the feeling to some people that I was timid and a certain percentage thought I bordered on being insane.
Oh yes I was a watcher; my primary 4 school teacher aptly described me when complaining to my mum one dreary day. I remember her and my mum outside the class while i was sitted at my desk, it had rained an hour ago, my mum was looking cold. This was right after the bell had gone to signal the close of school for the day. My mum had come to pick me up, she usually didn’t but the letter I gave her the day before made her. My teacher was just being dramatic I thought because her hands where all over the place while my mum in her designer suit stood tall and erect, not a hair was out of place in her tightened bun…she had such a smooth fair complexion that people wondered if I was her child. Though I couldn’t hear the words they exchanged quite well, I could read their lips, one of the things I had learnt watching people. My teacher was saying; she sits like a lump, hardly says a word until she’s talked to, she’s slow. Her huge eyes keep staring like she hasn’t got a clue to what’s happening in the world only in the fantasy world that she keeps daydreaming about, I just don’t know what to do with her, blah …blah …blah. My mum began to ask some questions in her distinctive low toned voice with the exaggerated‘s’ Her grades are okay? Does she have friends?, blah blah. Yes, I loved to take my time; I was a bit plump, tall enough for my age with a dark skin and long dark hair at least by Nigerian standards; my hair though in plaits stopped at my back just above my elbow. That was the only thing that made people notice me, apart from the fact that I moved like a cow in labour. I loved the speculation that surrounded me. I could almost see question marks on people’s heads as they looked at me in fact I imagined huge ones dancing around their heads, oh it amused me greatly.
I was still musing on that when my mums voice, called ‘ssStacie’, I quickly grabbed my Mickey Mouse backpack and hurried to meet them. My teacher’s hands were crossed now, thank goodness! Her energy had been draining mine.
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sakish (f)
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Good luck then. I really believe in you. I won't be surprised if you get awards for the books you write.
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Gamine (f)
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Wow, sakish thanks  , i'll def keep writing and providing small excerpts here! 
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Gamine (f)
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My Names  ‘The Sow’ was my official nickname in my Cedarn Montessori Junior School, you see my full name is Temitayo Stacie Ola-Williams, from that we get my initials; T.S. Ola-Williams, look closely and you would see something. ‘T S O W’ which was, to does who revelled in teasing me, a clincher. I was called that conveniently. My ‘fatness’ as someone crudely put it, was unbecoming; they just couldn’t understand how a lump like me could have come from my mum. Mrs Taiye Alexandra Ola-Williams, my dearest mother was slim and in shape but our facial resemblance was obvious even though I was darker in complexion; I had her light brown eyes too. After receiving a lot of jabs from people, kids and adults alike and feeling like a stranger in my own skin, I got thinking. Aren’t I a child?, at nine years at least I’m allowed to be ‘fat’, ‘round’ what ever you could call it. In my mind, I resolved that I won’t let anyone’s petty comment disturb me, pretty advanced for a kid you think, but it was just simple reasoning I was standing on. One, I felt I was just ‘chubby’ with baby fat that would be shed as I grow older, Two, I wasn’t even the fattest kid in my form not even near the top three, The award of ‘Fattest’ went to Aisha Umar, who most people were afraid of, no one dared call her fat, I was the only one allowed to be picked on. When I walk from the cafeteria to my class, I hear groups of girls giggling and jeering ‘there goes Mummy Sow’, and rather loudly too. I entered Cedarn in primary three when I first came to Nigeria I had never seen so many black kids like me and I was happy to sit back and enjoy the feel that was how I became a watcher. My parents who were both mixed; Nigerian, Brazilian and Irish had been living in England before they decided they wanted to settle down in Nigeria, I can't really remember any jab or tease back there. It was when I got to Nigeria that I got to know the person they called ‘The Sow’ 
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Orikinla (m)
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Gamine, Take your time to publish your book. Get a good editor and let a book designer design your book cover to cover.
If you have a publisher, then your publisher will bear the cost.
My publisher did that for my first book Children of Heaven and he lost money. But my new publisher Flonnal Limited is making money with my love book.
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Gamine (f)
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ooh really, thanks Orikinla  i can't use that cover its just a demo but i'll definately take my time, can u link me with any other good publisher
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marhoatumu (m)
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"My Experiment with the Truth" i think i've heard that name somewhere
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Gamine (f)
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"My Experiment with the Truth" i think i've heard that name somewhere lol, i kno, im goin to change the name 
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Orikinla (m)
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Contact Literamed Publications Ltd Lantern House Plot 45, Alausa Bus Stop, P.M.B 21068, Ikeja, Lagos.
Tel: 234-01-4962512
If you are still not published by December, then I can offer to publish your book.
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Gamine (f)
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Orinkinla, that would be so nice! thnks for the contact.! 
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texazzpete (m)
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Nice idea (the book thingy). I used to write a long time ago, but now with my soul in turmoil, it's hard for me to put pen to paper anymore.
@orikinla You still in Bonny? Would be visiting at the LNG RA later this month. We could jam then
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