Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Out Of Africa

Dear bloggers

Please note that another of my books, Out Of Africa, is now available on www.abook2read.com. This collection of short stories includes two of my award winning short stories, namely The Good Samaritan and The Journey.

The collection spans over two decades of my writings, and includes two short stories called Personal Surprise and Nurse Laura's Affair. These two never before published stories were written in the late 1980s, and I am sure many readers will like them.

Get the ebook, download it and enjoy pure literary masterpieces from Africa.

Ciao.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Now Available: Rebone's Books





Book Lovers




Two books now available for download.




A Clean Job Of Murder The Prostitutes Of Mokopane
Genre: Murder Mystery Genre: Investigative Journalism
Get your own copies at www.abook2read.com

Available Soon: Collection Of Short Stories



What to expect from some of the best short stoies from Africa?
Can loving parents turn around the life of a wayward teenage daughter?
A stranger is someone, a friend, you never had. But what price do we pay for helping a stranger?
How far can a drug addict go to get his fix, and is there anything a mother can do to stop him?
What does it take to change the life of a thug? Can HIV stand in the way of a seasoned criminal?
Countless men deal with abusive spouses in their homes... and bottle it up. Is there a remedy for a woman who abuses her husband? Can going through a cleansing program curb absive women's anger? Will a daughter welcome home a mother who had killed her father back from prison?
Mr Khumalo is a rich man. Unfortunately, he has terrible problems no medical science can make sense of. But one doctor with extensive experience prides himself in curing paranormal ailments. The trouble is Mr Khumalo doesn't believe in the supernatural. Will Mr Khumalo finally find relief to his personal problems?
And what happens when a nurse falls in love with a patient?
The answers to these questions, and many others, are contained in Short Stories Out Of Africa, a selection of 13 fascinating South African short stories that make up this book.
Till we meet again.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Novel: A Clean Job Of Murder

Bloggers! Here is the book cover for my murder mystery A Clean Job Of Murder. The book will be available soon on www.abook2read.com.

A CLEAN JOB OF MURDER:
Death is no welcome joke...
Especially for Solly "Mzili" ka Afrika, a former investigative journalist. When he accepts an invitation to a lunch party in Johannesburg, he thought that he was paying homage to an old friend.Judge Jansen van der Schyff, his retired old friend, was elebrating his 80th birthday.
But the old judge had the displeasure of hosting a right wing brother that he had never seen or spoken to for over 42 years....
And a bitter, rich businessman whose divorce case he had presided over.
As the guests congregate on the lunch table to sing for the judge, something terribly strange happened...
Suddenly, the old judge slumped headfirst into his birthday cake - seriously dead!
Someone, one of the guests shouted, "It's a heart attack!"
Solly looks at the guests standing there - a strange bunch that annoys him, and somehow believes that the accident was staged. He finds himself in the midst of an unwelcome death... or was it murder?
Solly ka Afrika is disappointed that his hosts had invited him to drive 300 kilometers to Johannesburg not as a guest of honour, but as a guest for death.












Wednesday, April 29, 2009

New Novel: A Clean Job Of Murder

Welcome once again.

Keeping you informed of new additions and what's to come - that's the name of the business on Writes on Rebone.

You might just have a look at the new novel, called A Clean Job Of Murder, which is to be available soon on http://www.abook2read.com/

The book is a murder mystery where a former disgraced investigative journalist returns in this second offering to get embroiled in a murder case. The bad thing is the murdered guy is his old friend, and a retired judge. I say the investigator returns - that is because he made his debut in another crime and murder mystery called Summer Of Eighty-Four. Plans are afoot to publish Summer Of Eighty-Four in ebook format as well.

In A Clean Job Of Murder, Solly "Mzili" ka Afrika has to find the murderer among 13 guests that came to celebrate the old judge's birthday

Here's what to expect on the jacket of the book:

A Clean Job Of Murder:

Death is no welcome joke...

Especially for Solly ka Afrika, a former investigative journalist with a leading weekly. When he accepts an invitation to a launch party in Johannesburg, he thought he was paying homage to an old friend. Judge Jansen van der Schyff, his retired old friend, was celebrating his 80th birthday.

But the judge had the displeasure of hosting a right wing brother he had never seen or spoken to for over 42 years....

And a bitter, rich businesman whose divorce case he had presided over....

As the guests congregate on the lunch table in the marquee to sing for the judge, something horrifying happened...

Suddenly, the old judge slumped headfirst into his birthday cake - seriously dead!

Someone shouted: "It's a heart attack!"

Solly looks at all the guests - a strange bunch that annoys him, and somehow feels that the accident was staged. He finds himself in the midst of an unwelcome death.. or was it murder...?

Solly ka Afrika is disappointed that his hosts had invited him to drive 300 kilometers not as a guest of honour, but as a guest for death.

When the book becomes available on abook2read.com, buy it for download and read it to find out how the judge died. Or who killed him, if indeed he was killed. I am sure you will love it, just as I loved crafting every moment of this murder mystery.

Talk later

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Available soon on www.abook2read.com

Dear Readers, Lovers of the Written Word.

I promised last week to bring titbits and a little synopsis about what readers can expect in my books. Today I want to tell you specifically about Short Stories Out Of Africa. This is a collection of my short stories that span a period of over two decades. There is a short story that I wrote in December 1989, called Nurse Laura's Affair. This story, told in retrospect, is about a young doctor during the 1940s who finds love - literally on his deathbed. Another gem is a 1990 shortie that I guarantee readers will love. It is called Personal Surprise, and tells of lengths rich people would go to amuse themselves...Some of the short stories are quite newer - a mix of the 1990s and the 2000s, including two prize winners The Good Samaritan (2004) and The Journey (2005).

Apart from this, what can readers expect from the collection?

Can loving parents turn around the life of a wayward teenage daughter?

A stranger is someone, a friend, you never had. But what price do we pay for helping a stranger?

How far can a drug addict go to get his fix, and is there anything a mother can do to stop him?

What does it take to change the life of a thug? Can HIV stand in the way of a seasoned criminal?

Countless men deal with abusive spouses in their homes... and bottle it up. Is there a remedy for a woman who abuses her husband? Can going through a cleansing program curb absive women's anger? Will a daughter welcome home a mother who had killed her father back from prison?

Mr Khumalo is a rich man. Unfortunately, he has terrible problems no medical science can make sense of. But one doctor with extensive experience prides himself in curing paranormal ailments. The trouble is Mr Khumalo doesn't believe in the supernatural. Will Mr Khumalo finally find relief to his personal problems?

And what happens when a nurse falls in love with a patient?
  • The answers to these questions, and many others, are contained in Short Stories Out Of Africa, a selection of 13 fascinating South African short stories that make up this book.

Cherio

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Welcome to Rebone's Place

Welcome all first time visitors. This blog is dedicated to those who love books and reading. I am going to be your companion and entertainer. For those who don't know me, I am based in South Africa, in a little known town of Mokopane. I write short stories, novels, poetry and a bit of investigative journalism. In my 25 year writing career, my short stories have won numerous awards, prominent among them being the annual Anglo Platinum Short Story Competition, www.angloplatshortstory.com

I am the only woman author who has won in the competition for two years in a row. In 2004, my short story, "The Good Samaritan," won the price, followed in 2005 by "The Journey."

Book lovers will be glad that I am teaming the with ebook publishing site www.abook2read.com, to bring my books to all book lovers for an affordable instant download. The books can be read on any ebook reader and/or on your computer in PDF format. The first three books will be available in about a month. So keep watching this space - I will post synopsis for the available books that I am sure you'll find very funny, informative, entertaining and best of all a creative companion. So long.