₦airaland Forum

IamaNigerianGuy:
There are millionaire fiction writers. If we consider fiction to be creations of the mind.
What do you think Chris Oyakhilome, David Oyedepo and Chris Kwakpovwe are ?

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They will soon be braying for your blood

einsteine:
Nnedi Okoroafor doesn't sell that many books. She just wins awards.

Many Nigerian writers want to write literature rather than what people would read. One would think that with the proliferation of mobile phones, someone would have figured a way to monetise Nigeria's huge reading audience. Okada books isn't doing it because their model is wrong. I know a guy who brings in a container of used books (novels) every month and he sells them. It's definitely not ghosts that are reading the books.

My dear, I may have been one of the patronisers of your friend, then again I have transferred most of the books I got from friends colleagues and fellow conspirators to my Kindle and mobile phone .

That's where I faulted the Ops insinuations that Nigerians don't read.

kjhova:
Naa, it's 2 decades ago, I moved on. All materials are now irretrievably lost.

I read something like what you're describing in a youth camp (The Origin of Cultism) or something like that 6-7 years ago poorly packaged but had interviews and pictures of their signs and handshakes.

I hope one of those publishers haven't ripped you off?

kjhova:
Nigerian book publishers are also struggling and have to make their business decisions on shoe string budgets too. This is a critical problem.

I once started a work titled "THE ORIGINS (Essay on Confraternities in Nigerian campuses" and required to do many interviews, some of which were going to be clandestine, at locations criss crossing the 6 geo-political zones of the country. The project also required visiting certain locations which kept being mentioned by early interviewees to get good perspective necessary for better descriptive narrative in the book.

I visited Longman as well as two lesser known publishers with my early manuscripts and midget recordings...of course, nothing came of my request for at least a review session and at best a pre-deal or something. Needless to say that I abandoned the project eventually. Shame on me.

As far as your manuscript exists you shouldn't give up just yet.

kjhova:
Very many factors militate against having a financially successful novelist in our clime. These include; poor economy with majority of Nigerians living below the poverty line, poor reading culture, ineffectual copyright and intellectual property laws, piracy, high cost of book production, stiff competition from other media i.e. Nollywood etc, lack of interest and financial support from publishers amongst other factors that I haven't thought of right away.

I totally agree with this point you've just raised, what good is an unsupported author or book. Then again publishers especially in the parts of Nigeria of have been fortunate to reside tend to look for easy pay books even going as far as reprinting works from The African Writers Series.

kayo80:
What if they made the books like Pamphlets cos Nigerians don't read, and they feel the shorter books/stories would at least hold the short attention Nigerians have for reading fiction.

Wrong again...

kayo80:
You said I am wrong, then you say it is because nobody has tried it. I don't get you. Is there any millionaire fiction author in Nigeria that made his/her money in Nigeria, from fiction book sales in Nigeria? No. That's my argument. By the way, Nnedi Okoroafor lives in America.

Wrong because your query does not make any literal sense and is irrelevant, you should be asking where are the Nigerian Science Fiction writers; find them and find your millionaire and if you're asking because you made your millions from SciFi then please what is the name of your book so we can patronise you further.

And again thanks for clarifying your question.

https://www.nairaland.com/332444/nigerian-ever-written-science-fiction

Wrong, that's because no one has tried it. Nnedi Okoroafor is a good example though she's technically not a Nigerian.