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Cry The Beloved Country

This was Setwork at school for English. It remains one of my favourite South African reads.

Capetonian!

New Look!

The dynamic views option just wasn't a fit for this blog, and thus I did some tweaking to make it more user-friendly. Hope you like :)

It's raining at last!

This is a purely 'yippee!' post: it's raining in dry, hot and windy Cape Town at last!

YES!

A rainbow feeling is here

The Lion Whisperer - Video

Kevin Richardson - SA's Lion Whisperer

An inspiration to us all!

Lion Whisperer

African Moon

An excerpt from a short story in Latticework (now available): set in Cape Town, this one reveals to the reader not only the heat of the Mother City in summer, but also the beauty and the ability of South Africans to imagine, to act, to help each other ...

African Moon

The magic of Africa.

She leans on her elbow, chin in hand, and stares out over the bay. The sun is bright on the water and the sun worshippers are out in full force on the narrow strip of beach, their colourful umbrellas and sunshades drawing the eye.

Bronzed bodies languish amid reddening skins. She, however, is uninterested in people silly enough to burn to crisps in such heat; she watches the water intently, staring through the hot silver stripes upon the waves.

Twice now she has dreamed of the yacht and both times the images were so real she can no longer ignore it. She sees sails dancing upon a beam and with it there is a feeling of sadness. Such sadness that she is in tears when she awakes.

She will look and watch until she either dies of eyestrain or something happens to prove her night visits are more than dreams. Or, she thinks in amusement, she will die of starvation, just sitting here.

The screams of frolicking kids rise up to reach out to her through closed windows, but she barely hears them. The drone of a jumbo jet overheard faintly rattles the glass and is then gone. The subdued sounds of slow traffic vying for right of way along the crowded street do not even register, and neither does the periodically jarring siren of an angry driver leaning on the hooter. Her mind is engaged in the soothing notes of Mozart at his absolute best.

Read on! Available from Amazon

True size of Africa

A hardworking local lady!

Vivian Sutherland is a lady with drive, focus and talent, and to help her I'm posting links to her websites for you to wander on over to. Have you needed a secretary to do some of your boring paperwork? Have you needed a designer to help you create business cards? Would you like someone to help you make your business more visible in the virtual world? Here are answers for you!

Hands On Admin

Virtual Secretaries

Your business and creative solutions are a click away.

Latticework

My latest book due to be released soon! A collection of short stories, one of which is set in Cape Town. Look our for it!

When the Lion Feeds

One of my favourite SA books. Read this years and years ago, but still remember ...

Wilbur Smith

Blood Diamond

Safe House

District Nine

Long Walk to Freedom

Elaina J Davidson and The Tinsal Deck

This is the first book with Thorstruck Press!

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Thorstruck Press

We are not heard locally

Just went back and read the first ever post on this blog, and it says something about South African voices not being heard abroad. I believe we are not heard locally at all! Please, all rainbow writers out there, let us change that. Share our work here as well!

Poppet and Soul Cypher

Poppet is prolific author and has published some of the most imaginative works I have every come across. She writes mostly for an adult audience, but has also written YA, children's tales, even a cookbook ... and some other surprises. Soul Cypher is her latest venture, a side-splitting and over-the-top tale you will love.

Amazon US

Thorstruck Press

I believe South Africa should read out of the box, and this is an author who shows us there is no box!

Showcasing SA Authors!

I haven't posted here in a while, largely due to lack of response from our South African authors and because 2013 ended up being a BUSY year writing and publishing wise for me. That changes now. I'll endeavour to post at least once a week (more if something awesome grabs my attention) and every post will, of course, have a South African flavour!

I urge you to submit your news and I'll post about it!

Elaina
Jan 2014