Nagwa Malik's Blog, page 2
February 5, 2022
Rebranding YouTube
Hey everyone,
Sorry for having vanished for a long time now. I just rebranded my youtube and decided that it should at least look like a channel. It has everything about my books, my podcasts and tiny vlogs that i very infrequently make. So subscribe and click on the notification icon to get updates.
As you can see I haven't been working on it at all. So I would love for you all to be a part of my officially starting this channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL-P...
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Nagwa Malik
Sorry for having vanished for a long time now. I just rebranded my youtube and decided that it should at least look like a channel. It has everything about my books, my podcasts and tiny vlogs that i very infrequently make. So subscribe and click on the notification icon to get updates.
As you can see I haven't been working on it at all. So I would love for you all to be a part of my officially starting this channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL-P...
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Nagwa Malik
November 4, 2021
Latest Podcast episode
Do follow my podcast Nagwa Malik's Naked Thoughts for all the episodes (you can also listen to them on lstennotes, audible, spotify etc.)
Please Note I have moved from podbean to redcircle, in case I forgot to tell you:
https://redcircle.com/shows/the-nagwa...
or you can also check them out on my youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL-P...
Please Note I have moved from podbean to redcircle, in case I forgot to tell you:
https://redcircle.com/shows/the-nagwa...
or you can also check them out on my youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL-P...
Hardcover now available
Hi everyone,
Finally: Good news for all those hardcover lovers, THE MIST Stage One and my latest release A NOVEL are now also available on hardcover. Happy hols everyone. Enjoy reading your favourite books.
Finally: Good news for all those hardcover lovers, THE MIST Stage One and my latest release A NOVEL are now also available on hardcover. Happy hols everyone. Enjoy reading your favourite books.
May 14, 2021
SMASHWORDS PRESALE
Hi everyone.
Just to let you all know that THE MIST Series BOX SET is now available on Smashwords Presale. So be among the first ones to get a hold of the BOX SET before its official release on June 1st 2021. If you add yourselves to my newletter (you see the option upon hitting the purchase button) then you add an added discount on the already value priced ebook bundle.
Do share with other thriller/spy novel lovers and do remember to drop a review.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/pres...Nagwa Malik
Just to let you all know that THE MIST Series BOX SET is now available on Smashwords Presale. So be among the first ones to get a hold of the BOX SET before its official release on June 1st 2021. If you add yourselves to my newletter (you see the option upon hitting the purchase button) then you add an added discount on the already value priced ebook bundle.
Do share with other thriller/spy novel lovers and do remember to drop a review.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/pres...Nagwa Malik
May 13, 2021
EID MUBARAK
Eid mubarak to the whole Muslim Ummah. We all wish we could see Eid one day with our fellow Kashmiris and Palestinians celebrating with us in peace and with their freedom. This Eid is doubly subdued as we have to observe social distancing. But I am sure everyone is making the best of it. Especially for all of us book lovers...this is a great time to snuggle with our favourite books. And I have 2 books...more like 3 books: a series bundle and a standalone novel both at value prices on kindle, smashwords and wherever books are sold. Preorder THE MIST BOX SET now and buy A NOVEL now. Do remember to leave your feedback and tell me what you think of them.
Happy reading. Eid Mubarak.Life Makes A Novel...A Novel
Happy reading. Eid Mubarak.Life Makes A Novel...A Novel
April 28, 2021
THE MIST SERIES BOX SET
Have a blessed Ramadan everyone. I hope you are all safe and healthy. May this month be blessed for everyone, and all your prayers be answered.
This Ramadan, through Eid...celebrate the days with your favourite books. Grab an eBook and binge on your favourite series. THE MIST Series Box set is here for all those thriller lovers to catch up on their summer reads.
Get the complete series bundle/box set on both kindle and Smashwords for great value:
kindle $5.99
Smashwords £3.99
Pre-Order now:
Click on the links below to get your box set (don't forget to leave your valuable comments/feedback. Always love to hear from my readers)
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093DST5BHNagwa Malik
This Ramadan, through Eid...celebrate the days with your favourite books. Grab an eBook and binge on your favourite series. THE MIST Series Box set is here for all those thriller lovers to catch up on their summer reads.
Get the complete series bundle/box set on both kindle and Smashwords for great value:
kindle $5.99
Smashwords £3.99
Pre-Order now:
Click on the links below to get your box set (don't forget to leave your valuable comments/feedback. Always love to hear from my readers)
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093DST5BHNagwa Malik
April 27, 2021
THE MIST SERIES BOX SET PRE-ORDER NOW
Nagwa Malik
Yesss....THE MIST complete series bundle/boxset is now available on kindle for pre-order, due for release on June 1 2021. Get it now for $5.99. And do remember to leave your valuable feedback. check the link below:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093DST5BH
Yesss....THE MIST complete series bundle/boxset is now available on kindle for pre-order, due for release on June 1 2021. Get it now for $5.99. And do remember to leave your valuable feedback. check the link below:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093DST5BH
April 4, 2021
Kong Boys (my thoughts)
The title I liked: it was a little reminiscent of the 80s and 90s, and when I started reading it, the narration began in a beautiful, light, reminiscent tone and in the best way possible: not overly descriptive, not overwhelming: more to the point and still managing to stir up curiosity. And that was just the prologue. To be honest it was almost as if I was watching the opening scene of a Hong Kong movie. Maybe that had something to do with the ordered list of characters before the prologue, and being a scriptwriter I appreciated the format of it: as if I were reading a play. Coincidentally, this is the second book I have read that holds narration in the present tense, after many years. It was refreshing, actually, to read such a candid narration in the present tense (although I did come across one or two places where the tense shifted…normally that is deliberate, as an author I balance tense shifts myself, deliberately, but at one particular place I felt maybe the shift was unintentional). As someone who loves to travel, has lived abroad away from family, and secretly wishes to make numerous solo trips around the world, or least parts of the world, I find this book, with its subtle details, the different people and their behaviour, the reactions: “I looked him in the eye for five seconds, then slowly scanned the rest of the table for someone to call bullshit.”, just plain fun. It’s a wonderful read. Not something you would want to scan through, but one you need to make the mood for, to fully enjoy it.
Nagwa Malik
Author: The Terrific Three, The Mist series and A Novel
Nagwa Malik
Author: The Terrific Three, The Mist series and A Novel
March 16, 2021
Podcast Moved to RedCircle
Hi everyone,
Just to update you on my moving my current podcast to RedCircle...it's a bit new as a platform but growing, so thought now was a good time to jump in. Catch all my episodes here on the link below:
https://redcircle.com/shows/the-nagwa...
Just to update you on my moving my current podcast to RedCircle...it's a bit new as a platform but growing, so thought now was a good time to jump in. Catch all my episodes here on the link below:
https://redcircle.com/shows/the-nagwa...
February 5, 2021
Trivia on and links to my new book A NOVEL
A little something about A NOVEL
*I wrote this book in 1999, just before I started my Masters in French language&Literature and two years before I travelled to France.
*I was nineteen and had one of my glimpses into my future, sprinkled with a bit of what-ifs. Knowing reality might not be as good, it led me to a perfect set-up for fiction.
*This was two years before I first started combatting depression.
*A Novel, like all my books, looks into life itself: what we plan for in life as opposed to what actually happens, and how much control we think we have as opposed to how much control we really have.
*It also confirms the idea that a person alone tends to accomplish much more in life than one bogged down with the luggage of other people.
*This was the last book I wrote until I started writing again in 2013.
*Like the Female Lead, Nain, I also chose to leave the country at least twice to find myself...I had begun to notice the signs of depression coming on, knowing that if I did not do what I wanted to the way I wanted to, I would succumb to depression. (Needless to say I did not do what I wanted to and not the way I wanted to do it: family interference reigned, as a result of which 20 years of life passed putting others' problems and wishes first, and putting my life on a hold.) Ironically I am at the very stage Nain was in my book except it is perhaps too late to make the choices she did. Especially thanks to COVID. So the least I could do was publish this book so that somewhere some lady may gather up courage to revamp her life amidst COVID.
*Digitising this book made me have a flicker of hope: if she could manage it at aged 40 so can I.
*The lack of availability of amazon ad campaigns and the non-existence of my country in their distribution list has blocked my marketing completely so that I cannot reach out to my targetted audience. This is the 3rd book in a row that has suffered the consequence of said issues with amazon and other distributors publishing sites, including Barnes&Noble.
*A Novel being one of my older works depicts the sheer optimism I had, when youth gives you the illusion that nothing can go wrong, and if it does we can fix it, we can control it. This is probably shown in most of my works of that period where the genre is more literary fiction and cozy adventure/mystery than hard core thrillers like my later works.
*Like Nain I stayed in France for a little time...returning back home after 11months, ditching my residence and my degree for family reasons.
Like Nain I did live in the UK...I spend a part of my childhood in the UK and returned there as an adult to gain my second Masters in Script-writing & Production and lived for three years before once again I had to leave for family reasons.
Like Nain I did major in Journalism. But I decided not to pursue it as a career.
In A Novel I touch the subjects of imperialism, invasion, war, racism and gender discrimination...all of which, I am sad to say, not only prevail today but if anything, have augmented.
I describe it as women's fiction, because, contrary to popular opinion, women's fiction does mean exclusively romance novel like Mills & Boon...to me any story revolving around a female protagonist, where her life and her world is explored through her point of view is essentially women's fiction.
A Novel is romance, but not your typical contemporary or historical romance.
If you like a clean wholesome romance with a whole lot of adventure and a bit of mystery then A Novel is just the book for you. (It is also just the book for you if you are wondering about making a change in your life...it has made me rethink things about my life as well).
Links:
A Novel is available wherever books are sold: on all the amazon marketplaces, on nook, kobo, smashwords, and other links. Please check links below for both print and eBook versions. Take advantage of the limited time offers all over and do drop a line and tell me what you really think about the book.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MJ9CX2K
https://books.apple.com/fr/book/a-nov...
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-no...
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-no...
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
https://www.scribd.com/author/3013519...
https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/...
https://www.booktopia.com.au/a-novel-...
PRINT available:
On all amazon marketplaces
https://www.amazon.com/Novel-Nagwa-Ma...
https://www.dymocks.com.au/book/a-nov...
https://www.bol.com/nl/b/nagwa-malik/...
*I wrote this book in 1999, just before I started my Masters in French language&Literature and two years before I travelled to France.
*I was nineteen and had one of my glimpses into my future, sprinkled with a bit of what-ifs. Knowing reality might not be as good, it led me to a perfect set-up for fiction.
*This was two years before I first started combatting depression.
*A Novel, like all my books, looks into life itself: what we plan for in life as opposed to what actually happens, and how much control we think we have as opposed to how much control we really have.
*It also confirms the idea that a person alone tends to accomplish much more in life than one bogged down with the luggage of other people.
*This was the last book I wrote until I started writing again in 2013.
*Like the Female Lead, Nain, I also chose to leave the country at least twice to find myself...I had begun to notice the signs of depression coming on, knowing that if I did not do what I wanted to the way I wanted to, I would succumb to depression. (Needless to say I did not do what I wanted to and not the way I wanted to do it: family interference reigned, as a result of which 20 years of life passed putting others' problems and wishes first, and putting my life on a hold.) Ironically I am at the very stage Nain was in my book except it is perhaps too late to make the choices she did. Especially thanks to COVID. So the least I could do was publish this book so that somewhere some lady may gather up courage to revamp her life amidst COVID.
*Digitising this book made me have a flicker of hope: if she could manage it at aged 40 so can I.
*The lack of availability of amazon ad campaigns and the non-existence of my country in their distribution list has blocked my marketing completely so that I cannot reach out to my targetted audience. This is the 3rd book in a row that has suffered the consequence of said issues with amazon and other distributors publishing sites, including Barnes&Noble.
*A Novel being one of my older works depicts the sheer optimism I had, when youth gives you the illusion that nothing can go wrong, and if it does we can fix it, we can control it. This is probably shown in most of my works of that period where the genre is more literary fiction and cozy adventure/mystery than hard core thrillers like my later works.
*Like Nain I stayed in France for a little time...returning back home after 11months, ditching my residence and my degree for family reasons.
Like Nain I did live in the UK...I spend a part of my childhood in the UK and returned there as an adult to gain my second Masters in Script-writing & Production and lived for three years before once again I had to leave for family reasons.
Like Nain I did major in Journalism. But I decided not to pursue it as a career.
In A Novel I touch the subjects of imperialism, invasion, war, racism and gender discrimination...all of which, I am sad to say, not only prevail today but if anything, have augmented.
I describe it as women's fiction, because, contrary to popular opinion, women's fiction does mean exclusively romance novel like Mills & Boon...to me any story revolving around a female protagonist, where her life and her world is explored through her point of view is essentially women's fiction.
A Novel is romance, but not your typical contemporary or historical romance.
If you like a clean wholesome romance with a whole lot of adventure and a bit of mystery then A Novel is just the book for you. (It is also just the book for you if you are wondering about making a change in your life...it has made me rethink things about my life as well).
Links:
A Novel is available wherever books are sold: on all the amazon marketplaces, on nook, kobo, smashwords, and other links. Please check links below for both print and eBook versions. Take advantage of the limited time offers all over and do drop a line and tell me what you really think about the book.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MJ9CX2K
https://books.apple.com/fr/book/a-nov...
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-no...
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-no...
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
https://www.scribd.com/author/3013519...
https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/...
https://www.booktopia.com.au/a-novel-...
PRINT available:
On all amazon marketplaces
https://www.amazon.com/Novel-Nagwa-Ma...
https://www.dymocks.com.au/book/a-nov...
https://www.bol.com/nl/b/nagwa-malik/...
