Ho Ho Ho: New Book Releases

 Dear all,

#Friday #TGIF #ChristmasEve

Season's greetings!

Christmas is here, and so are two of my books to accompany you during the holiday season. The fourth book in my Desperate Women Series titled Married To Oyibo comes out tomorrow, and my short story collection titled Under The Mistletoe, featuring 12 Christmas-themed stories in 12 different genres, comes out the day after.

They will be available across major ebook distribution platforms. I hope you get to read and enjoy them.

Many thanks in advance for your support.

#KeepSafe #PleaseShare #ThankYou

Literarily Yours,
CMO.

You can still write a book in 2021!

Dear all,

#Monday #Motivation #December

You can still write a book before the end of the year without compromising on quality!

The process is in my guide. Get it at 50% off from 13th to 19th Dec 2021.

Email author.cmokonkwo@gmail.com to get started with a free introduction.

PS: Know someone who might need this guide? Make their dreams come true too.

Literarily Yours,
CMO.

New Book: Coming 01/10/21

Dear all,

#Friday #TGIF #NewBook 

Yay. I just completed a new story after a short break. I can’t wait to share it on Nigeria’s Independence Day.

Here’s the description:

Kiki, code-named ‘The Cuttist’, has been pardoned by the Nigerian authorities and is no longer on the run. Kiki is free, but there is an assassin after her who is willing to use the one she loves to get to her. She must decide to kill again or not. Any choice she makes comes with a consequence.

#KeepSafe #PleaseShare #ThankYou

Literarily Yours,

CMO.

New Book: Coming 2022

Dear all,

#Friday #TGIF #NewBook 

Because we still need to fight the pandemic, be a part of my Book of Quotes by suggesting pandemic-inspired themes.

Drop a theme (or several) and your name, and I’ll create a quote and add it to the book.

The goal is to have #100Quotes by December 2021, so fire away!

Be inspired by some suggested themes and a few quotes.

#KeepSafe #PleaseShare #ThankYou  

Literarily Yours,

CMO.

New Anthology: Coming soon!

Dear all,

#Friday #TGIF #NewAnthology 

A yummy Afro-Eros Anthology edited by Jide Badmus and Oyindamola Shoola is coming 25/July/2021... free! It features my poems and many others.

You can start with the fantastic foreword by Aremu Adams Adebisi here: https://www.sprinng.org/aeanthology.html

#KeepSafe #PleaseShare #ThankYou

Literarily Yours,

CMO.

New Event: Nigerian International Book Fair

Dear all,

#Friday #TGIF #BookFair

The Nigerian International Book Fair is coming up this July with loads of books to buy, many at discounted prices, and a lot of authors to meet.

Will you be there? I will. See you!

#KeepSafe #Enjoy #Share #ThankYou

Literarily Yours,
CMO.

Happy Father's Day: New Challenge

Dear all,

#Sunday #FathersDay #SuperHeroes

Today is an important day because fathers also need to be celebrated!

This post made me realise that I have no story about the sentiments, struggles, and sacrifices of fathers, so I’m challenging myself to produce one next year to celebrate Father’s Day.

Happy Father’s Day to my father, my FIL, Jamie’s father, and to all those who play the role of a father in the lives of others.

You rock. Keep being you.

The celebration continues. This is to every mother out there and those who play a motherly role to anyone at all. May your labour never be in vain.

This time, Ann Taylor's poem 'My Mother' plays in my head.

Also, by the end of the day, one subscriber will win an autographed e-copy of my Novella titled 'All That Glitters' that features a mother with a dark secret.

Now, the second celebration. My crime novel titled 'When It's Murder' is out today, exclusively on Amazon. Get your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08WLBGKSH

Finally, congratulations to Nduko o'Matigere, Erumena Amata, and Ahmed Adelalu who each won an e-copy of the book.

I hope you enjoy it!

#KeepSafe #Enjoy #Share #ThankYou

Literarily Yours,
CMO.

New Book: Hotel Room Murder

Dear all,

#TGIF #CrimeFiction #ComingSeptember

My new book has now been published for pre-order. Yay!

Description: Two people are found dead in a compromising position in a hotel room. With little evidence, no witnesses, no suspects, and no leads, the case seems impossible to solve.

But there’s a breakthrough for Inspector Tunde Osbourne when a private investigator shows up with information that changes the course of the investigation.

The inspector must now team up with the P.I. to unravel the mystery.

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To get a free sample and preorder your copy, please visit: www.cmokonkwo.com/hrm

#KeepSafe #Enjoy #Share #ThankYou

Literarily Yours,
CMO.

New Book: Under My Skin... a novel in verse

Dear all,

#NewBook #NovelInVerse #MondayMotivation

I just completed my first ‘poetry novel’. Yay!

A special ‘thanks’ to Toki Mabogunje, President of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Published Poet, who indirectly pushed me to write this novel in verse by encouraging me to share my poems with the world. Thanks for accepting to write the foreword, which on its own, is a beautiful story. It means a lot to me.

Many thanks as well to three fantastic writers: Linda Edem-Davies for also pushing me to share my poems, Chioma Ebele Mbanisi for adding some juice to my imagination, and Brenda Eziafakaego Nwafor, my writing partner, for vetting the juice.

To my sisters, the real storytellers, Nne, Eby, and Nkay, you rock!

Subscribe to my website and stand a chance of winning a copy before the release date: https://www.cmokonkwo.com/subscribe

#KeepSafe #Enjoy #Share #ThankYou

Literarily Yours,
CMO.

Happy Mother's Day: All That Glitters

Dear all.

#March14 #MothersDay #BookRelease

The celebration continues. This is to every mother out there and those who play a motherly role to anyone at all. May your labour never be in vain.

This time, Ann Taylor's poem 'My Mother' plays in my head.

Also, by the end of the day, one subscriber will win an autographed e-copy of my Novella titled 'All That Glitters' that features a mother with a dark secret.

Now, the second celebration. My crime novel titled 'When It's Murder' is out today, exclusively on Amazon. Get your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08WLBGKSH

Finally, congratulations to Nduko o'Matigere, Erumena Amata, and Ahmed Adelalu who each won an e-copy of the book.

I hope you enjoy it!

#KeepSafe #Enjoy #Share #ThankYou

Literarily Yours,
CMO.

International Women's Day: Eight Days To Live

Dear all.

#March8 #ChooseToChallenge #SuperWoman

I celebrate women yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Keep playing your part, keep leading, keep shining, and keep winning.

As I write this, Helen Reddy's wonderful song 'I Am Woman' plays in my head.

My website subscribers all got a gift today: my novella, titled 'Eight Days To Live' and features a strong woman as the protagonist. It's fiction, but a story of hope inspired by the Coronavirus Covid19 and written in a record 2 days in March 2020 while battling malaria.

You can also get a free autographed copy from my website until tomorrow. Please visit: https://www.cmokonkwo.com/iwd

#KeepSafe #Enjoy #Share #ThankYou

Literarily Yours,
CMO.

Book Review: A Broken People's Playlist

Book description:

A Broken People’s Playlist is a collection of short stories with underlying themes so beautifully woven that each story flows into the other seamlessly. From its poignant beginning in “Lost Stars” a story about love and its fleeting, transient nature to the gritty, raw musical prose encapsulated in “In The City”, a tale of survival set in the alleyways of the waterside. A Broken People’s Playlist is a mosaic of stories about living, loving, and hurting through very familiar sounds, in very familiar ways, and finding healing in the most unlikely places.

The stories are also part-homage and part-love letter to Port Harcourt (the city which most of them are set in). The prose is distinctive as it is concise and unapologetically Nigerian. And because the collection is infused with the magic of evocative storytelling, everyone is promised a story, a character, to move or haunt them.

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I don’t think I’ve ever said this about a book, but this one is Gold on Paper. This is the best collection of short stories I’ve read so far. You’ll laugh, cry, laugh again, and cry again. I love creative writing and unique ideas, and in this case, the author writes stories inspired by music and most of them have music as an integral part of the plot.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Dear all.

#February14 #DayOfLove #DayOfGiving

I gifted a free preview of my upcoming book titled ‘When It’s Murder’ to my website subscribers.  

Subscribe to my mailing list and never miss a moment: https://www.cmokonkwo.com/subscribe

#KeepSafe #Enjoy #Share #ThankYou

Literarily Yours,
CMO.

Coming Back Soon: When It's Murder

Dear all,

#ComingBack #14March

Remember “When It’s Murder?”

It was first published in March 2019 for a year, and it’s coming back this March!

Subscribe to my mailing list to find out more and stand a chance of winning an autographed ecopy before the release date: https://www.cmokonkwo.com/subscribe

#KeepSafe #Enjoy #Share #ThankYou

Literarily Yours,
CMO.

New Course Alert: Learn to Write, Format and Publish for ebook

Dear all,

#Course #Write #Format #Publish

For those who asked... this is for you!

For those who didn’t ask... this can also be for you!

For those who know someone who might be interested... this is definitely for you!

Join me, let’s achieve our 2021 writing goals.

#KeepSafe #Share #ThankYou

Literarily Yours,
CMO.