Our guest author today is Jade Zwane, who you probably haven’t heard of before. Jade is a 27 year old from White River, Mpumalanga whose interests include horse riding and the crime channel. She is alsthough the author of a work of erotic fiction titled aDICKted. Here she chats about … Read More
It’s Friday and I am not in the mood for anything too serious, so let me tell you about some fun stuff that is going down around my hood at the moment and in the near future! Frankly, the most exciting thing happening for me right now is that Martin … Read More
The thing about writing a novel is that every day, for a while, you step out of your day to day reality and into another world. This sounds great, but it’s quite a feat… especially when the world you are seeking to create doesn’t sit too well with the everyday … Read More
Wade Cox is an American author, born in 1973. He grew up in the city of Salem, located in Southwest Virginia but has also lived California (where his first book takes place) and Florida. He has been a writer for about 10 years, with 1 published novel, and a list of unpublished short stories … Read More
The beginning of a new year is always an interesting time. On an individual level, everyone is generally upbeat, optimistic and enthusiastic. But as a freelancer, self employed type I can tell you, it can be hell! Here in South Africa we really have the shortest working year on earth. … Read More
One of the primary motivations for the novel I am writing is to portray an aspect, a notion of Johannesburg that is routinely left out of conversations about the city. It is a deeply fascinating place with origins that encompass the globe, many tribes, languages, ideas and cultures. We tend … Read More
Described variously as South Africa’s foremost counter-culture revolutionary, a writer, performance artist, film-maker, poet and enfant terrible, Kaganof has done more in his creative career than most other artists even THINK about doing. Today he shares some thoughts in fairly typical style with us on film festivals! From Aryan Kaganof … Read More
The last original band I played in was an outfit called Anti Gravity in Cape Town in the last days of the 90’s… We were a hard big-beat band. A 3 piece combining heavy rock guitar with Prodigy-esque programmed beats. I played bass and provided backing yelling, Danny Goldstein was … Read More
I have been talking for some time about a novel that I will be writing. Well this week I finally got down with myself and the keyboard and got going. As part of the process of creation, I will be blogging every week about the writing of the week preceding … Read More
Hello and welcome to 2012! I am all set to continue with the regular guest posts and today it is my pleasure to introduce you to South African author Tracey Farren…. her second novel, Snake is now out and she is fast becoming a household name. She whispered quietly about … Read More