SOME GOOD NEWS: Sales of my novel WOES OF LIFE have picked up noticeably in the United States, supposedly because more and more people have been heeding the advice of medical professionals and are staying at home as a result of the COVID-19. This good news could not have come at a better time, given the serious financial problems I am now experiencing.
The upsurge in sales more likely than not is because there is a WOES OF LIFE advertisement prominently positioned in my online publication BAHAMAS CHRONICLE, which was launched to keep Bahamians and nationals from other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries living in the diaspora up-to-date on news from their respective countries. BAHAMAS CHRONICLE has developed a huge following across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom as well as in The Bahamas and the wider Caribbean.
When I checked Amazon this afternoon, I was also more than pleased to see a review on WOES OF LIFE by Nicole Roberts, a Bahamian who lives in London, who gave it a FIVE STAR rating. She actually wrote the review on September 8, 2017, which was shortly after WOES OF LIFE was published, but I don’t know why I am just seeing it now. Here’s what she had to say: “A good compelling read this book is. The fictional characters and their fictional situations illuminate, in rather inconspicuous and surprising ways, to life in the 700 islands and cays way back when. Highly recommend!”
Although I have repeatedly insisted that any similarities to persons living or dead among the characters in WOES OF LIFE are purely coincidental, another review had this to say:
“WOES OF LIFE is a treat for lovers of historical fiction, as it relates to life in the Caribbean, in the formative decades of the 1940s and 50s. For those with an especially keen interest in the political turmoils of the Bahamas during that time, they will find this book particularly fascinating. The books tells the story of a young black boy named Byron Boyd, through the varied and sometimes surreal landscape of a small island colony called Athol Island. The Atholians live, work and socialise along divided racial lines..These divisions lead to more than one interpersonal, social and political showdown in the book.”
If you have not yet read WOES OF LIFE, you can order your copy at www.oswaldtbrown.com
