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Book Review: THE SEEING PLACE by Aziza Eden Walker

BUY THE EBOOK I volunteered to the review the book. It is a romance novel set in South Africa, in Cape Town, mostly. We meet Thuli first, a woman who knows what she wants and has achieved a lot of success in her professional life already. Although you get the impression that she is older (I expected her to be in her early forties), it is actually a surprise when she does reveal her age to Andile. She is portrayed initially as rude and arrogant, and I found it difficult to like her especially h...

Follow Me: Botswana Mashatu Day 5

We had our last game drive in the early morning. As soon as we hit the area where we saw the female lions the previous day, the ranger noticed the spoor of a male lion. But he gave us the runaround and we never saw anything but his tracks.
While searching for the lion we came across...a leopard. Ha, the same old female we had found before. Lions forgotten, we trailed her for a long time and I took a stack of photographs of her.
When she left, we returned to search for the lions. This time, we f...

The Friendship Affair

Not all long lasting marriages are happy. But what do you do if divorce is not an option?University friends, Stephanie and Nick, meet again after twenty years. But life has not been easy or simple for either of them. Will this friendship affair stand a chance against reality?
CHAPTER 19

She was beautiful, was his first thought when she walked into the restaurant that evening. He could see she had her hair done and was probably wearing a new dress, but that wasn't what kept his attention. There...

Follow Me: Botswana Mashatu Day 4

Today we saw many birds. I love taking photographs of them, but I have to confess to being clueless about their names. Some I do know (or remember being told) and those I have added to their pictures. But the rest...sorry!
Also spotted a cat or three. 
Lions are lazy on the best of days. We got reports that even hours later they were still...flat cats.
We tracked the leopard for quite a while and eventually had to give up when she did a successful disappearing act into the thick bushes.
T...

Follow Me: Mashatu Botswana Day 3

We spend a lot of our time driving in a dry riverbed looking to spot animal tracks. The rivers are mostly dry this time of year, but there is evidence of high water flow when they are flowing. The water flow cannot be sustained throughout the year since the water is supplied from another area with higher rainfall.
The black sand in the bed is a remnant of lava flow (I asked ) from who-knows how many years ago. Botswana does not have any active or dormant volcanoes, so it is more likely soil th...

Follow Me: Day 2 - Mashatu Botswana

Day 2 has been a busy day in the Botswana bush with lots to see and photograph. I also took some pics of our lodgings, but you cannot see much. Will see if I can do better tomorrow.The sunset pictured came out quite well and I can see a painting or two in my future from these pictures.Francois also took a picture of me. Yeah, not my best angle, but there I am. I have to make a backup too. Not many pictures so far, but backups are always a good idea anyway.Hopefully more to see tomorrow.
PS: Th...

7 Blogging Tips for Fiction Writers

Original post on BookMarketingTools.com(This post originally appeared as guest post by Linzé on the blog page of BookMarketingTools.com)

I have been blogging for a while and like many authors I thought that my blog had to be about writing advice. Recently I have made the decision that there are more qualified people (and bloggers) that can help with advice forIf you feel that you are in the same predicamen...

Follow Me: Botswana Mashatu Day 1

And here we arrived to gorgeous weather and lovely people. A few kilometres before the border post, Pontdrift, we got a very nice surprise: a leopard crossed the road right in front of us. Of course, the cameras were stored and I was too slow with my cellphone, but it was a great sighting. Now we have to find the leopard with cameras in hand, and it will be a perfect sighting. So here is a taste of what we saw (and shot) today.Tomorrow I will add some more pictures - still to be taken - of th...

Follow Me: Botswana Mashatu Day 1

source: Google MapsThe time for our vacation has finally arrived. We are packed - as usual camera gear first, and ready to go and have fun for five days in a game reserve in Botswana, our neighbour to the West.
When Francois asked if I wanted to go on another photographic safari, my answer was something like, duh! you have to ask?It was planned and booked months ago, and I cannot wait. We need the break, and what better way to enjoy ourselves.As with my previous trips away from home, I will tr...

The Friendship Affair

Not all long lasting marriages are happy. But what do you do if divorce is not an option?University friends, Stephanie and Nick, meet again after twenty years. But life has not been easy or simple for either of them. Will this friendship affair stand a chance against reality?

CHAPTER 18
The rest of the weekend she spent trying not to be depressed about everything. It was difficult, but she managed by keeping busy. She ended up having dinner with a girlfriend she hadn't seen in a while. Then she...