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Trinity on Track – Chapter Two
To: Doctor Pulane advice@allaboutgirls.com From: Nosipho Mamusa nosiphomamusa@gmail.com Re: Menstrual irregularities Dear Dr Pulane, I am sixteen years old. My cycle has always been a bit irregular, but this month it is really late in starting. I'm not exactly sure...
Trinity on Track – Chapter One
To: Trinity Luhabe trinityluhabe@gmail.com From: President of the Paranormal Association of South Africa admin@paranormalSA.com Re: Ghost of Sisulu House Dear Ms Luhabe, We were fascinated to hear about your close encounter of the eerie kind with a paranormal...
It’s 2019. Why are white writers still writing black characters?
I have written about this before. In 2013, I wrote a piece called "White writers writing black characters - a form of literary blackface?" in which I concluded that white writers could indeed write black characters as long as they did it sensitively and with proper...
HAUNTED goes on sale today
Book Three of the Eulalie Park Mystery series is available to purchase on Amazon Kindle from today - 15 March. Here is the book description: "People don't disappear. Not without help." Five years ago, girl-next-door Jessica Manilow vanished while...
HOOKED goes on sale today
"One dead wife is a tragedy. Two is a pattern." Eulalie Park knows that when a woman is murdered, her husband is always the number-one suspect. But what do you do when that husband is also your client? Someone pushed Emma Egger off a five-story balcony. Her husband...
HACKED goes on sale today
The first book in The Eulalie Park Mysteries series is now available to buy on Amazon Kindle. Book description: Marcel Faberge is not a popular man. When he turns up dead, there is no shortage of suspects. Unfortunately, one of them is Fleur, the best friend of...
Hiding clues in a murder mystery novel
There is a certain kind of murder mystery that belongs to the golden age of mystery fiction. This is the so-called play-fair mystery that was pioneered by Dorothy L Sayers, Agatha Christie, and the writers of Ellery Queen. It is constructed in such a way that the...
Flashbacks, time jumps, and head hopping
If a flashback is a backwards jump in narrative time, and a time jump is a forwards jump, then head hopping is usually a sideways jump. Another possibility is to have two or more narratives running concurrently, often from different time periods. We've all read novels...
Why my inner geek is so happy to be invited to ICON this weekend
My geek credentials are far from impressive. Real geeks would scoff at the idea of my claiming any geek status whatsoever. I am not a gamer. I don't watch horror movies. I don't read graphic novels published after about 1992. The Star Wars franchise is a mystery to...
Flaubert v Wodehouse: is it possible to write fast and well at the same time?
Gustave Flaubert, the author of Madame Bovary, is famous for writing his books slowly and painstakingly. I first heard about Flaubert's slow-muse reputation in the work of P G Wodehouse, the British humorist who was famous for writing his books extremely fast. It...
Fiona Snyckers
Fiona Snyckers is a published South African author. Her novels include: Trinity Rising, Trinity On Air, Team Trinity & Now Following You. Purchase your book today.
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