PRESS RELEASE: For Immediate Release (6
Feb,2015)
Lauri
Kubuitsile’s Latest Detective Novel to be Serialised Free Online from 12
February 2015
Motswana
writer Lauri Kubuitsile’s latest detective novel, The Vanishings, will be
serialised around the internet starting from Thursday 12th February.
Every Thursday two chapters from the novel will appear on two local blogs and
an online African magazine based in Kenya. On Friday, the same chapters will be
posted on a Facebook page set up exclusively for the novel.
Kubuitsile
is known for writing mysteries. Most notable is her Kate Gomolemo series. The
first book, The Fatal Payout (Macmillan), is a set work in junior secondary
schools in Botswana. Other books in the successful series include Murder
for Profit published by Pentagon Publishers in Botswana, and Anything
for Money published in South Africa by Vivlia Publishers. She also
writes the humorous Lola Molefi Mysteries published through cellphones by the
South African literacy trust FunDza.
Her
new series is set in Maun and features the crime fighting duo: police detective,
Dambuza Chakalisa, and tour guide company owner, Delly Woods. In the first
book, Dambuza has just arrived in Maun and is given five missing persons cases.
Nothing connects the cases and no bodies have been found. It appears as if the
people have just vanished.
Kubuitsile
says The
Vanishings manuscript has had a bit of bad luck. It was accepted by two
different publishers, but unfortunately in both cases the deal could not go
through. In one the publisher went out of business, and in the other editorial
differences had her withdrawing the manuscript before signing the contract. She
felt bad for her battered manuscript and decided it would not take the
traditional route again. Serialising it in this way is an experiment she’s
excited about.
“I’m
always keen to try new ways to use the technology that is available to
writers,” she said. “It doesn’t always need to be about earning money from your
writing, sometimes the benefits from what you’re doing appear later and that’s
fine with me.”
The
blogs participating in The Vanishings
Project are: mslyric writer (https://mslyricwriter.wordpress.com/)
and lo-blogs (http://ngumba-wada.blogspot.com/ ) . It will also appear on her
own blog, Thoughts from Botswana. Additionally, the chapters will appear at the
Kenyan based online African magazine Afrikan
Mbiu (http://www.afrikanmbiu.com/).
On
Fridays the two chapters will be posted again at The Vanishings Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/theVanishings.
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Bio for Lauri Kubuitsile
Lauri Kubuitsile
is a full time writer living in Mahalapye, Botswana. She has numerous published
books (in South Africa, Botswana and overseas) and many short stories published
around the world. Seven of her books for
children are prescribed reading in schools in Botswana and South Africa. She
has won or been shortlisted for numerous prizes among them she was shortlisted
for the 2011 Caine Prize, and twice won The Golden Baobab Prize for children’s
stories. Her most recent books are a collection of short stories, In the Spirit of McPhineas Lata and Other
Stories (Hands-On Books/ HopeRoad London) and the sequel to her YA book, Signed, Hopelessly in Love (Tafelberg),
titled Signed, The Secret Keeper published by Diamond Educational
Publishers in Botswana.
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