On the weekend of the 9th of March 2017, I attended a workshop organised by the Southern Cape Writers Guild. Six years and many rewrites later, my manuscript has been accepted for publication by Naledi Publishers. Working title: A Guesthouse Life. It should be available in all major South African bookstores, and online, by September 2024. It will also be available for e-readers.

Working title: A Guesthouse Life. The title may change. The manuscript contains memories, and anecdotes, with a few recipes added for good measure. It is about life as guesthouse owners in general, but also about our garden, Fairview and the people who call Fairview home. 

Over the next three months, I plan to write regularly about the process of creating a book. Do subscribe to the blog if you wish to follow this journey. I do not plan to irritate you with excessive marketing or promotional material.

​Regular blog readers may have noticed that most of my blogposts have been removed. That is because they are being to be worked into a book that will be published by NALEDI Publishers! Title: Guesthouse Life. Deadline for it to be on the shelves and available for online sales is the end of August 2024. They will also do a book for e-readers.
I know that most fellow guest house owners could have written a book about their guest house lives – this one is for you.

To quote Nikos Kazantzakis in Zorba the Greek. ‘Wife, children, house, everything. The full catastrophe’.  Thirty-two chapters, variable in length. The last six chapters clearly show a build-up of frustration as the B&B owner becomes overwhelmed by the responsibilities and frustrations of running an accommodation establishment but gradually regains her equilibrium and finds joy and contentment again.
 
What an exciting exercise this has been. I now know that submitting that manuscript is a very humbling experience. I am so encouraged by the Naledi team who are tasked to turn my manuscript into a book. I keep on questioning whether people will buy the book - Imposter Syndrome is real!
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