Follow Modjaji Books, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/modjaji-books Fri, 24 Sep 2021 11:32:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlO0Gb1Jh49AJn Our next online Modjaji seminar, Everything you wanted to know about getting published in South Africa but didn’t know who to ask, will be offered by Colleen Higgs, publisher at Modjaji Books. Time: 6pm South African time Date: Thursday, 21 October Where: Online via Zoom – attend from anywhere in the world! Cost: R300 or purchase any […]]]> Wed, 08 Sep 2021 13:19:49 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlO0Gb1Jh49AJn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlO-Gkz6RCC25z Celebrate International Literacy Day with a once-off Modjaji special! 8th September is International Literacy Day. We will be offering FREE SHIPPING within SA for all books bought from our website from 7th Sept to 17th Sept as a way of celebrating International Literacy Day. We are grateful for books, for being able to read, and […]]]> Wed, 08 Sep 2021 10:55:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlO-Gkz6RCC25z https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlO1hGNgNo2_0q How do you get a literary agent? What do literary agents even do, and why do you need one? How does agenting work in South Africa? What kind of titles are agents looking for? Join Modjaji Books and Aoife Lennon-Ritchie for a seminar on the do’s and don’ts of approaching a literary agent. Time: 6pm […]]]> Mon, 16 Aug 2021 07:54:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlO1hGNgNo2_0q https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlOwVLTsI7B9NX Celebrate Women’s Month with Modjaji Every month is Women’s month at Modjaji, of course, but in keeping with the calendar: This Women’s Month, we’re offering free delivery on all orders over R400 placed through our online store. Simply place your order and then enter the coupon code WM2021 at the checkout. Keep an eye on […]]]> Wed, 04 Aug 2021 13:34:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlOwVLTsI7B9NX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlO-QEmsPXZ5C9 We are so excited and honoured to have Karen Jennings join us at 6pm (CAT) on September 1st for a Zoom conversation with me. Karen’s third novel, An Island was recently nominated for the 2021 Booker Prize. It is published by Holland Park House and in SA by Karavan Press. Karen lives in Sao Paulo, […]]]> Wed, 04 Aug 2021 12:58:25 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlO-QEmsPXZ5C9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlO2sGk81fO-bN As publishers there are so many things that can go wrong in publishing a book. Some of those mistakes are printer’s mistakes, designer’s mistakes, proofreader’s and editor’s mistakes, but as the publisher the buck stops with us. We have to take responsibility. We have to check at every single stage. In most jobs if you […]]]> Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:04:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlO2sGk81fO-bN https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlOx-xWH3zZqEA You’re invited: Successful author, Fiona Snyckers, on how to write a page-turning novel We had planned to launch The School Gates at Exclusive Books, Melrose Arch on July 1st but due to covid, we have decided to have a Zoom event instead. Have you ever wondered how writers do what they do? How they write novels that […]]]> Thu, 08 Jul 2021 13:48:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlOx-xWH3zZqEA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlOxhSCv31NykC Have you ever wondered how writers do what they do? How they write novels that keep you interested and turning page after page into the early hours of the morning? Join us on Wednesday 21st July at 6pm (SAST) for a seminar with one of our best known, most successful authors, Fiona Snyckers, she is […]]]> Tue, 06 Jul 2021 11:08:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlOxhSCv31NykC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlOxeIF_fEM9tn You’re invited: Hands-On Books launches Cosmonauts do it in Heaven by Keith Gottschalk Join us on Wednesday 9 June 2021 in celebrating the (virtual) launch of Keith Gottschalk’s latest poetry collection, Cosmonauts do it in Heaven, published by Hands-On Books. Arja Salafranca will be in conversation with author Keith, and Keith will also read from the collection. Award-winning […]]]> Tue, 01 Jun 2021 21:02:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlOxeIF_fEM9tn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlO2w5Ur-z5Bww Two Modjaji titles make the 2021 Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards longlist Two Modjaji Books titles are longlisted for this year’s Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards. Raise a glass for Barbara Adair for WILL, the Passenger Delaying Flight... and to Lynn Joffe for her debut novel, The Gospel According to Wanda B Lazarus which were both longlisted under the Fiction category. […]]]> Wed, 05 May 2021 11:48:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/SfYiKLzR6E76FqG_BpGlO2w5Ur-z5Bww