WORLD BOOK NIGHT!
On the 23th of April 2024 which was last Tuesday I almost cringed in fear when I discovered I was going to talk to some keen students at the Adult learning centre HARINGEY LEARNS based in Wood Green, London. I do my voluntary work there you see. The talk was going to be about Thriller writing.
Now, how did I get into all this? I wasn't prepared to deliver a short lecture on a favourite subject. But, I was drafted to do this job simply because another author scheduled to do the talk on World Book Night dropped out at the last minute. I didn't care to ask who this was or why they did so. I guess I just reluctantly jumped at the opportunity to do this.
The whole idea was to take these adult learning students under my wing and then gallantly introduce them to the genre of thriller writing and what it entailed to write one. I remember doing that on the evening. And, that same evening I was instructed by my supervisors to introduce the group to the format of a crime thriller they were reading in class.
The novel titled Those People Next Door by Kia Abdullah was a book I hadn't come across until that point. But, I surprisingly did that with great ease. And, all that paid off beautifully because I was kindly asked by the same team at HALS to present my thriller novel Snake Amongst Shadows. I guess it all worked out in the end because everyone went home happy. There were photos taken and they're all on the HARINGEY LEARNS webpage. I can't thank enough the English teachers at HALS. The likes of the wonderful Samantha Hobbs and the fantastic Rita Olivera. I hope to work with both of them again. I can't wait for that day to come. I can tell you one thing. The SNAKE AMONST SHADOWS will be back.
