Kenyan novelist, scriptwriter and self proclaimed Internet guru, Alexander Nderitu has released a paper that is set to guide future authors into the murky and uncertain, technology-dependent world. The 159-page document, titled Changing Kenya's Literary Landscape (2012 Onwards) is useful for publishers, book sellers, the media and aspiring writers. The material is freely available on the author's website www.AlexanderNderitu.com/press and will be serialised on his blog, http://alexandernderitu.blogspot.com, over the coming months.
The document explores such topics as: Future Shock: Why Publishers and Booksellers Will Have to Adapt or Die, Want to be a Successful Writer? Stop Writing! (And Start Marketing), How E-Books Work, among other topics. Alexander who is a signatory to the PEN Charter which calls for balance when writing on international issues, says, he is a voracious reader of books from a young age. He claims to have read "everyone from Shakespeare to Perelman". He graduated from high school at the top of his class and wrote his first feature-length screenplay at the age of 19.
The script, about a near-war between Kenya and the DRC, was later changed into a novel, Climate of Terror. His IT background led him to explore Internet options for literary work. In November 2002, he became Africa's first ‘digital novelist’ with the Internet publication of his signature thriller, When the Whirlwind Passes, which was initially a free download on his website.
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