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Are you a writer? Or an upcoming writer? Then this is for you.

Okadabooks is hosting a short story competition. This competition is channeled at supporting and encouraging writers as well as helping to build our reading culture.

How to Participate

1. Write a short story of at most, 2000 words (It could be less, but not more). Your story can be in any genre of your choice but, you are not allowed to publish more than one story for this competition.

2. Publish the short story on okadabooks publishing platform. Beside your short story title, write ‪#‎OKBsCom‬ in bracket. E.g

Title: The Girl From Mars (#OKBsCom)

If your title is NOT saved like this, it won't be recognized as an entry for the competition.

Simply visit http://okadabooks.com/, sign up for a free account; if you don't have one and then publish your book. For more assistance, visit these links and learn easy ways to publish on the site

http://www.iammagnus.com/2015/08/learn-to-self-publish-on-okadabooks-get.html?m=1

http://www.iammagnus.com/2015/08/how-to-create-and-publish-epub-on.html?m=1

http://www.iammagnus.com/2015/07/how-to-updatedreplace-your-uploaeded.html?m=1

3. Set the price at zero naira (N0)naira

4. Share your book store link with your friends on facebook, google plus, twitter and other social media platforms.

5. Continue to invite your friends to download your book

6. Download the okadabooks app and watch the number of downloads you get

Note: The number of downloads for a story is equal to the number of votes for that story. When your friends and readers download your story, rate it and leave a review, they are actually voting for you. Splendid! Right?

How Winners will be determined

We have two stages. First stage and final stage.

For the first stage, winners will be picked based on number of downloads + rating. To beat the first round, your story must have at least 300 downloads and at least a rating of 4.5

After the finalists are selected, the judges will now read the works of the finalists as well as reviews left by readers. Your works will be judged based on "Writing style, grammatical errors, spelling errors and most importantly, structure. When the judges are through, the winners will emerge.

Question: Who can participate?
Answer: Anybody who can write.

Question: Is the competition open to only Nigerians?
Answer: No. Writers from other countries can participate.

Question: How many winners do we need?
Answer: Three. We need First, second and third

Question: What prizes will these winners get?
Answer: The prizes are as follows

* First position- 50,000.

* Second position- An infinix phone

* Third position- An infinix phone

Mouth watering, right? So hop on our okada, let us give you the ride of a life time.

Date:

October 6th - 26th (12:00 PM)---Write your story, publish it on our platform and start inviting your friends and social media acquaintances to download, rate and review it. Please note that you are allowed to publish only one story.

October 27th - November 8th: Downloads(voting continues). The earlier you submit your entry, the better.

November 9th 16th: Screening for stage one.

November 17th: Finalists would be announced.

November 19th - 29th: Screening of finalists.

30th November: Winners will be announced and told how to collect their prize.

So you think you can write? Hop on our okada, let us find out together.

Cheers!

Sometimes being a writer comes with little/no reward. But not at Okadabooks. Join our short story competition today. Visit okadabooks.com

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How Winners will be determined

We have two stages. First stage and final stage.

For the first stage, winners will be picked based on number of downloads + rating. To beat the first round, your story must have at least 300 downloads and at least a rating of 4.5

After the finalists are selected, the judges will now read the works of the finalists as well as reviews left by readers. Your works will be judged based on "Writing style, grammatical errors, spelling errors and most importantly, structure. When the judges are through, the winners will emerge.

Are you a writer? Or an upcoming writer? Then this is for you.

Okadabooks is hosting a short story competition. This competition is channeled at supporting and encouraging writers as well as helping to build our reading culture.


How to Participate

1. Write a short story of at most, 2000 words (It could be less, but not more). Your story can be in any genre of your choice but, you are not allowed to publish more than one story for this competition.

2. Publish the short story on okadabooks publishing platform. Beside your short story title, write #OKBsCom in bracket. E.g

Title: The Girl From Mars (#OKBsCom)

If your title is NOT saved like this, it won't be recognized as an entry for the competition.

Simply visit http://okadabooks.com, sign up for a free account; if you don't have one and then publish your book. For more assistance, visit these links and learn easy ways to publish on the site

http://www.iammagnus.com/2015/08/learn-to-self-publish-on-okadabooks-get.html?m=1

http://www.iammagnus.com/2015/08/how-to-create-and-publish-epub-on.html?m=1

http://www.iammagnus.com/2015/07/how-to-updatedreplace-your-uploaeded.html?m=1


3. Set the price at zero naira (N0)naira

4. Share your book store link with your friends on facebook, google plus, twitter and other social media platforms.

5. Continue to invite your friends to download your book

6. Download the okadabooks app and watch the number of downloads you get


Note: The number of downloads for a story is equal to the number of votes for that story. When your friends and readers download your story, rate it and leave a review, they are actually voting for you. Splendid! Right?


How Winners will be determined

We have two stages. First stage and final stage.

For the first stage, winners will be picked based on number of downloads + rating. To beat the first round, your story must have at least 300 downloads and at least a rating of 4.5

After the finalists are selected, the judges will now read the works of the finalists as well as reviews left by readers. Your works will be judged based on "Writing style, grammatical errors, spelling errors and most importantly, structure. When the judges are through, the winners will emerge.


Question: Who can participate?
Answer: Anybody who can write.

Question: Is the competition open to only Nigerians?
Answer: No. Writers from other countries can participate.


Question: How many winners do we need?
Answer: Three. We need First, second and third


Question: What prizes will these winners get?
Answer: The prizes are as follows

* First position- 50,000.

* Second position- An infinix phone

* Third position- An infinix phone


Mouth watering, right? So hop on our okada, let us give you the ride of a life time.


Date:

October 6th - 26th (12:00 PM)---Write your story, publish it on our platform and start inviting your friends and social media acquaintances to download, rate and review it. Please note that you are allowed to publish only one story.

October 27th - November 8th: Downloads(voting continues). The earlier you submit your entry, the better.


November 9th 16th: Screening for stage one.

November 17th: Finalists would be announced.

November 19th - 29th: Screening of finalists.

30th November: Winners will be announced and told how to collect their prize.


So you think you can write? Then hop on our okada, let us find out together.


Cheers!

LarrySun:
Thank you so much, sir. For the number, you can send me a mail (larrysun4real@yahoo.com)

How to Buy the Book

You will first have to download the trending Okadabooks app from Playstore.

1. Visit www.okadabooks.com
2. Sign up for a free account
3. Download the app
4. After installing, log in
5. Click on 'Account/Refill' on the right dashboard, this will take you to a page with details of your account
6. Click on the 'Refill' link on top

Methods of Payment

There are five methods of paying into Okadabooks before buying a book.

1. The Recharge Card Option: This is most convenient for everyone in Nigeria, but the card must be an Etisalat. After getting the pin, don't load it on your phone. There is a column on the page for you to enter your 15-digit card number.

2. GTB Bank Transfer (Nigeria):
Make payment to OKADA BOOKS LTD
Account Number: 0136442977
Include your Okadabooks USERNAME under REMARK
Notify okada@okadabooks.com if account is not credited within 24 hours.

3. Zenith Bank Transfer (Nigeria):
Make payment to OKADA BOOKS LTD
Account Number: 1013546499
Include your okadabooks EMAIL under TRANS. DESC to get credited
Notify okada@okadabooks.com if account is not credited within 24 hours

4. Paga (Nigeria):
Make payment to OKADABOOKS under PAGA merchants
Include your okadabooks EMAIL under ACCT NUM/CUST REF to get credited
Notify okada@okadabooks.com if account is not credited within 24 hours

5. Paypal (All countries):
Make payment to OKADA@OKADABOOKS.COM under PAYPAL send money
Include your okadabooks EMAIL under EMAIL TO RECIPIENT to get credited
Notify okada@okadabooks.com if account is not credited within 24 hours

Well done, Larry. Nice work

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"In March 2011, RIM announced an optional Android player that could play applications developed for the android system would be available for the BlackBerry PlayBook, RIM's first entry in the tablet market. On August 24, 2011 Bloomberg News reported unofficial rumors that BlackBerry devices would be able to run Android applications when RIM brings QNX and the Android App Player to BlackBerry.
On October 20, 2011 RIM officially announced that Android applications could run, unmodified, on the BlackBerry tablet and the newest BlackBerry phones, using the newest version of its operating system."

Blackberry phones with the latest Models (BlackBerry 10 devices) from BlackBerry Q5 (2013) to the New BlackBerry passport (2014) and other future ones hopefully should run most Android apps and one of these Apps is Okada Books. 


These updates and many more are in the Okadabooks Manual: Tutorials and Publishing Toolbox v.1.0 PDF

Download It from the Okadabooks Blog Here: https:///gPy0Zo

Tenth Generation is an epic novel (Awww... I love epics) that will glue you to your bed or chair while you read.
Frank has taken time out to create, vividly, the images that makes this book too hard to ignore.

You want to know more? Have a glimpse of what to expect.

Title: Tenth Generation

Author: Frank Anozie

Genre: Epic/Thriller

Format: e-book

Publisher: Okadabooks

Release Date: 23rd of August 2015

Synopsis:

(1717)

Chika's greed leads him to the lairs of his village's most-feared god, Alaogbaga. His pledge to the god is simple enough: 'Protect me and make me rich, then take my life after fifteen years'.

Fifteen years later, Chika doesn't want to die. To preserve his life, he makes another pact with the devil; the god, Alaogbaga, will be born to Chika's lineage in the tenth generation. A black bead is given to Chika by the chief priest, it must be passed from generation to generation until the child is born. It is the symbol of the covenant.

Somehow, the knowledge of this covenant is left in the hand of a group of devoted men, called The Saviours, who have sworn to right the wrongs of Chika. They will stand to stop the evil the tenth generation will bring to the world. The bead must be destroyed only after the child is born but before it is given to him by his father.

1985

Mark, the descendant of Chika, impregnates Juliet and refuses to claim responsibility. The young girl dies after labour when she gives birth to a strange child. The doctors and nurses refuse to have anything to do with that monster and he is taken to a motherless babies home.

Mark does not know his child has been born. He lost the bead to one of his numerous girlfriends to the dismay of The Saviours who do not also know the great Alaogbaga has been born.

The bead is lost, Alaogbaga is born and no one knows. The Saviours begin to doubt their course. Mark remarries and life goes on.

2004

The reborn god, Alaogbaga (now named Roger), breaks free from the orphanage, killing the mistress and every other person that stands in his way. He has a very important mission; he must retrieve the black bead he has given Chika when he came to make a covenant. He needs the bead now, but the bead has been misplaced by Mark; and somehow, the bead got to the hand of an innocent young girl. Alaogbaga has been born as the tenth generation. This black bead he seeks will make him invincible, indestructable, powerful beyond description. His goal is to rule the world with his powers. The world will bow before Alaogbaga.

Alaogbaga will do anything to possess the bead, but The Saviours will do everything they can to bring Roger to his knees.

**************************** To get your copy, simply go to okadabooks and download the free app. After installing it, log into your account and search for 'Tenth Generation.'

Title: An Evening With Eva

Genre: Crime

Author: Kevin John

Format: e-book

Publisher: Okadabooks

Release Date: Not Yet. Known

Sean, a young IT professional is tracked down and abducted by GhostCorp, who forcefully train and remodel him to become a very dangerous assassin. He eventually becomes the most wanted criminal sought by all security agencies in the country.

However, Sean’s abilities keep him invincible. In their usual manner, the Ghost Corporation cajoles and lures the pretty and ravishing Eva Makinde to join their ranks, to be trained as a top assassin.

Tired of the way Ghostcorp terrorizes with impunity, Detective Ahmed decides to go up against them head on, thereby inviting the most dangerous assassins in the Corporation into his radar.

Retired Colonel Giwa Haruna, the most feared and decorated military veteran of the modern era is unofficially forced out of retirement when his nephew, Detective Ahmed’s life is threatened. A conspiracy brews within the most dangerous criminal organization in the country and there is a threat to the seat of power. When Sean meets Eva at a planned dinner by GhostCorp, he falls in love with her and then the script is rewritten. Sean, Eva and the Retired Colonel form a deadly alliance and eventually destroy Ghost Corporation, killing the General (Head of GhostCorp) in the process.

Alliances are broken, enemies become allies, blood is spilled and the unimaginable comes to light just after An Evening with Eva.



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To get your copy, simply go to okadabooks and download the free app. After installing it, log into your account and search for An Evening With Eva.

You Love The Chase Series? Then This Is For You



"The Brand Of Cain" is a crime story that drops readers into a world far different from what they have ever seen.



Title: The Brand of Cain


Sub Title: The First Book of the Household Series


Author: Larry Sun


Genre: Crime


Format: e-book


Publisher: Okadabooks


Release Date: 23rd of August 2015


Pitch/Synopsis:


THE BRAND OF CAIN (A body outside the house, suspicion falls inside).


Africa's first detective tackles one of the most baffling cases of his career.


Different people are brought together by a sheer twist of fate. Some are born to sweet delights where some others are born in beds of thorns.


Heredity has been too strong on Richard Philip who was born poor at the wrong side of the blanket; an armed-robber rapes an innocent girl and Richard is the product. Now, after twenty-seven years, that child is heading the path of crime his father has once trod. He gets himself employed as the driver of a business tycoon, and the shocking secrets he learns about his new u and the gorgeous wife culminate into a well-planned, cold-blooded 'murder'.


At already half past five one morning, a fourteen-year-old boy discovers a body with a bullet hole on its forehead lying outside its compound. And Detective Lot's sudden appearance at the crime scene is a surprise to his sidekick, Daniel Famous, a twenty-four-year-old police officer, who, much to the chagrin of the detective, never believes for once that the crime can be solved.


Shortly after his arrival, Detective Lot realises that he is the only person interested in catching Cain Martins' killer. He learns that the night before, Richard Philip drove his boss out of the compound in a black jeep; but the gatekeeper, Mr. Eze Chima, claims that Cain drove back that night without the driver. Lot concludes that Cain must have somehow left the compound thereafter but Chima insists that he locked the gate himself. It was impossible for Cain to have left the compound without his knowledge.


The thread with which Detective Lot must darn this mystery is thin indeed, for it is only he who believes that the mystery surrounding the murder of Cain can be unraveled. A couple of hours before the time of death, he was anonymously paid a large sum of money to investigate the case.


And with these available clues, the famous detective must bring this criminal to book:


*The murder weapon, which was nowhere to be found.


*Two different notes written in different handwritings.


*A text message sent through a strange number.


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To get your copy, simply go to okadabooks and download the free app. After installing it, log into your account and search for A Brand of Cain.

You Love The Chase Series? Then This Is For You



"The Brand Of Cain" is a crime story that drops readers into a world far different from what they have ever experienced.



Title: The Brand of Cain


Sub Title: The First Book of the Household Series


Author: Larry Sun


Genre: Crime


Format: e-book


Publisher: Okadabooks


Release Date: 23rd of August 2015


Pitch/Synopsis:


THE BRAND OF CAIN (A body outside the house, suspicion falls inside).


Africa's first detective tackles one of the most baffling cases of his career.


Different people are brought together by a sheer twist of fate. Some are born to sweet delights where some others are born in beds of thorns.


Heredity has been too strong on Richard Philip who was born poor at the wrong side of the blanket; an armed-robber rapes an innocent girl and Richard is the product. Now, after twenty-seven years, that child is heading the path of crime his father has once trod. He gets himself employed as the driver of a business tycoon, and the shocking secrets he learns about his new u and the gorgeous wife culminate into a well-planned, cold-blooded 'murder'.


At already half past five one morning, a fourteen-year-old boy discovers a body with a bullet hole on its forehead lying outside its compound. And Detective Lot's sudden appearance at the crime scene is a surprise to his sidekick, Daniel Famous, a twenty-four-year-old police officer, who, much to the chagrin of the detective, never believes for once that the crime can be solved.


Shortly after his arrival, Detective Lot realises that he is the only person interested in catching Cain Martins' killer. He learns that the night before, Richard Philip drove his boss out of the compound in a black jeep; but the gatekeeper, Mr. Eze Chima, claims that Cain drove back that night without the driver. Lot concludes that Cain must have somehow left the compound thereafter but Chima insists that he locked the gate himself. It was impossible for Cain to have left the compound without his knowledge.


The thread with which Detective Lot must darn this mystery is thin indeed, for it is only he who believes that the mystery surrounding the murder of Cain can be unraveled. A couple of hours before the time of death, he was anonymously paid a large sum of money to investigate the case.


And with these available clues, the famous detective must bring this criminal to book:


*The murder weapon, which was nowhere to be found.


*Two different notes written in different handwritings.


*A text message sent through a strange number.


****************************
To get your copy, simply go to okadabooks and download the free app. After installing it, log into your account and search for A Brand of Cain.

This story catapults you to heights you never thought possible. It comes alive from the pages and the suspense keeps you salivating. I promise you won't drop it until you're done.

Title: FALSE PRETENSES

Genre: Romance

Author: Peju Amadi

Format: e-book

Publisher: Okadabooks

Release Date: 23rd of August 2015

DESCRIPTION: Falling in love with her billionaire boss, Ise Williams hadn't been Kite's plan but when he opens his heart to her after she is betrayed by someone she trusts, kite is powerless to control the steady freefall her heart engages in.

Faced with differences in their social status, blackmail from her ex fiance, opposition from Ise's doting mother, Ise's jealous P.A and a psycho kidnapper, Kite is desperate to protect her relationship with the man of her dreams, even if it means lying and keeping her secrets from him.

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To get your copy, simply go to okadabooks and download the free app. After installing it, log into your account and search for False Pretenses.

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