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If it is a good story then the readers would always be ready for it — everywhere in the world crime fiction sells, everytime without season; what is needed is for the story to be a good one, well written and relevant. So far, Satans and Shaitans has been doing very well in Nigeria — I think it is doing well in Nigeria more than anywhere else. Before the book came out here there was already lots of publicity around the UK edition, so Nigerians were yearning for the book. Now that it is here the reception has been awesome. And the reviews and comments great.
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Book Tour: Obinna Udenwe’s Satans and Shaitans
Hello Adebimpe, thanks so much for contributing. You have the right to buy any book of your choice and to pass this one in the bookshop 🙂
I chose the title because it is the most suitable for the book especially with the storyline. And you won’t believe this but most of the readers who have bought and read this book did because of the title 🙂
I hope you change your mind and read it some day.
Book Tour: Obinna Udenwe’s Satans and Shaitans
Hi Lola dear. Thanks for hosting me. It is a pleasure to be here today. I have always loved crime fiction and the suspense and intrigue that surrounds it. So it is a genre I wanted to explore and this is mainly because there are just a very few crime novels in Africa, aside South Africa, there is no other country in Africa with a robust crime writing history and tradition, in fact before the publication of Satans and Shaitans it was difficult to find a single, popular and rave-making crime novel in Nigeria. It is as if African writers are scared to delve into genre fiction. I am one of the writers that think we shouldn’t be afraid to explore all forms of literature. So I set out to write Satans and Shaitans as crime fiction instead of the everyday highbrow fiction out there like what Adichie, Unigwe and Teju Cole do. I felt that if the story was written as crime fiction it might open doors for a robust crime fiction tradition in Nigeria.
Some people define me as ‘the Nigerian author of erotic fiction’ because of my popular award winning ‘Holy Sex’ series, you may have heard of that, but you can find the series on Brittle Paper — so I do other forms of Fiction aside crime but my other novel that is forthcoming, Viaticum is a mixture of conspiracy crime fiction and erotica. I hope we have more crime fiction writers in Nigeria.
Book Tour: Obinna Udenwe’s Satans and Shaitans
Hi Teekay, I am delighted to be here today on this platform. Growing up I read Maria Corelli’s The Sorrows of Satan several times. It was my dad’s favorite book and he kept it locked away somewhere but each time my uncles visted they would discuss the book. So one day I found and read it. Since then I have always been interested in the idea of Satan, the dark world, conspiracy and influence. I also loved Elinor Glyn, P. D James, Sandra Brown and John Grisham. I loved Bessie Head too.
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