The influencer and Slay in Your Lane co-author talks about her journey via Twitter to become a writer, and channelling her experience of social media into debut novel The List“Honestly, I’m a better painter than I am a writer,” says Yomi Adegoke, cackling, as she takes a sip of prosecco. “Genuinely, that’s my skill. That’s my actual ability.”Adegoke is supposed to be telling me about the period of lockdown in which she began writing her debut novel, The List. But instead she navigates the time warp of the pandemic by remembering the volume of made-for-TV movies she piled through with her mum and sister, the three of them crammed together in her sister’s flat, and then through the many self-portraits she painted, rendered in acrylic and oil. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2023-07-01 08:00:07 UTC ]
Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke have turned a dream into a hot publishing property – a self-help guide for black womenIn March 2015, Elizabeth Uviebinené had a brainwave that a less determined 22-year-old might have dismissed as a water-cooler pipe dream. It was ignited by a single chapter... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist who began writing to relieve the stress of her psychiatry job says literary success will not stop her listening to ‘real voices’ in hospitalA bestselling debut novelist who wrote her book in a hospital car park as stress release from her job as a psychiatrist is to return to the NHS.... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fourth Estate is to publish Slay in Your Lane, a guide to life for a generation of black British women by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinene. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The beginnings of Ellora’s Cave, the Akron, Ohio–based publisher of erotic romance fiction, have become something of a publishing business legend. Tina M. Engler, a single mom at the time, began writing the kind of romance novels she wanted to read—novels written with explicit descriptions of... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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