Thoughts from Botswana by Lauri Kubuitsile

Over the years New Year's Eve has become more important to me than Christmas. For me NYE is a time to take stock, to see how the last ye...

So the South African president, President Zuma, decided to declare dogs and the caring for dogs a "white, non-African" practice...

Good things have been happening but I've been crazy busy so I thought I'd catch my blogging friends up on my life. 1. I have a ...

Take a look at these two writers Next Big Things!!   Rachel Zadok: Exploring the themes of superstition and taboo, Sister-Sister is t...

The print edition of my short story collection, In the Spirit of McPhineas Lata and Other Stories , is out, published by Hands-On Books. ...

Writers in the blogsphere have been passing The Next Big Thing around cyberspace for us to hear about what writers have in their pipeline, t...

I am very lucky to have my story "The Last Rhino in Mutare" in the new Asian/African anthology Behind the Shadows . The main theme...

I just received my copy of the fantastic pulp fiction magazine from South Africa, Jungle Jim #18 and inside is the first instalment of C...

About a month ago or so my friend Sue Guiney gave away this book, The New Perspective by K. Arnold Price on her blog. I was lucky enough to...

I've just returned from the cultural pitso in Tonota. In Botswana, the president has instructed various ministries to hold community mee...

Some months ago the world was saddened to hear that Orange would be withdrawing their sponsorship for the Orange Prize, a literary prize for...

The Chicken Thief is the story of Allois, an innovative young man who left his job in the civil service to become a chicken thief and along...

In my writing world, where most of my books are published in Southern Africa, I mostly do not get advances. Instead, I write a book, submit ...

A few photos from around my garden on this lovely spring day. ENJOY!!! Happy Spring!!

I'm back from the Storymoja Hay Festival. It was fabulous! As is usually the case, I mostly forgot to take photos. I'm not a natural...

Yep! Wednesday I'm off to Nairobi Kenya for the 2012 Storymoja Hay Festival . I'll be involved in various events. Thursday the 13 ...

Outside of my office window is a birdbath and a bird feeder. I spend a lot of time looking out at the birds, trying to think of what to writ...

As part of my on going effort to market my new ebooks, I've been interviewed over at C onversations with Writers . Please stop over and ...

I think this article makes a lot of points I've tried to make here and elsewhere. E-books will be the best thing for writers like myself...

I'm not one to waste things, except for maybe time. As regular readers know, we recently raised enough money to put in a new in ground p...