I'Ve Gone MIA

Friends through no fault of my own I have gone off the radar. I had a virus that'crashed all my gadgets. This happened last week already. I am typing this from my iPhone and so I apologize for the shortness of it. I hope to start bloggng soon again. At least as soon as I return to SA and fix everything. Thanks for coming by and I do miss you all.

Shopping and Talented African Writers

I don't know how many of you, my friends, know that I have started an online bookstore/promotional blog called Fabulosity Galore.

What I want to achieve with this blog is to promote books I love and also make a bit of income to support my blogging activities.

Today at Fabulosity Galore I feature bloggers and a writer who's books I love and are either of African origin or have a connection, however ancient to the continent.

I'd love for you to come over and check it out as today.

I also celebrate the release of Kiru Taye's new book, His Treasure and I hope as many people as possible will grab a Kindle copy @ $4.99.

I've included the Amazon link here for your convenience. 


I'm helping out with the promotion of Kiru's book. So tomorrow there will be no poetry in order to keep this post going throughout the weekend.

I promise to have two poetry sessions next week, Wednesday and Friday.

Fabulosity Galore is giving back 5X $10 Amazon vouchers for purchases to the value of $50 or more from my store.

Happy book shopping and have a fabulous weekend.

How To Not Suck At Blogging

Have you ever wondered why it is that some bloggers seem to do just about everything right and have hundreds of followers who comment, including you? Well I’m not one of those bloggers and I’ve been examining my blogs posts to see why. After reading some great blogging advise from bloggers such as Blogpreneur and Frank Dickinson, I noticed the following misdemeanours on my posts which I highly recommend that you DO NOT FOLLOW so as not to be a sucky blogger:

• Do not over promise and under deliver.

This is my conscious speaking. On my book review blog: Fabulosity Reads, I’ve changed my blogging schedule 3 times in the six months of its existence. I get all these plans and aspirations only for life to get in the way at the most inappropriate times and my blog ergo my readers suffer. I’m sure you’ll agree that’s one good reason to bite dust on that that blog visit. I wanted to change my one week old schedule on this blog as well to overpromise but resisted the urge.

• Do not by any means try to replicate the Bible every time you write a post. 

You need a year to go through the Bible apparently and your readers most probably only have one minute to spend scanning for something interesting and then off they fly to more punchy, witty corners of the blogosphere. Somebody please sell punch and wit in a bottle, I’m drowning in my own wordy posts.

• Do not by any means allow life to get in the way of your blogging frequently. (that doesn't make writing sense but it covers what i want to say)

Otherwise that gest interpreted as you not taking your blog seriously. Blog friends are the best kind of friends, they don’t care that when you are blogging you just woke up in your moth eaten t-shirt with stinky morning breath and zits breaking out all over.  Or even that you needed to take Prozac just to barely manage to write that post. You deliver good posts on time, everytime and they’ll think you’re hotter than Scarlett Johansson or Roland Yeoman’s Meagan Fox for that matter. Personally I prefer Catherine Zeta Jones.

• And for the love of all that is holy do not try to sound intelligent.

There are so many posts I shared that I wish I could do all over again. I was supposed to focus on finding my voice, NOT CREATING ONE.  You just end up sounding like you're trying to hard. At least that's what I hear when I read my posts.

• And last, those comments.....they mean everything

So comment, comment, comment on other people’s blogs. I recently started this again by putting 10 at a time from  my blog list on my home page (with that gadget that updates as your blogfriends post)  and actually making one at least one visiting  round every day instead of being obsessed with my own going no where blogs and hoping someone will come by. And wonders never seize (cliche) because they actually visit back and comment. 

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I hope somebody out there will learn something out of my obvious flops and avoid these routes better left untraveled...Oh and avoid/ minimise/ skim down on clichés....am I ever gonna bother to write again?

So do you have any more to add to these and even one better: can you tell me how to be punchy and witty to get rid of my wall texting?