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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: My latest Novel
« on: September 25, 2012, 06:42:21 PM »Quote
... but what kinda bajan 'steupse' is dat?
Is the onlyest steupse I have...spitty and ting.
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Is the onlyest steupse I have...spitty and ting.
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: My latest Novel
« on: September 25, 2012, 07:41:57 AM »
I'm pleased to report that I now have 12 copies left...after that, I am personally sold out!
yaaaay!
(and yes, I printed more than 12...steupse)
Cocorite, stay the course. If I didn't write I'd drink...
yaaaay!
(and yes, I printed more than 12...steupse)
Cocorite, stay the course. If I didn't write I'd drink...
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Photo of the day
« on: September 25, 2012, 07:39:47 AM »
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Photo of the day
« on: September 25, 2012, 07:38:02 AM »
Does anyone know the significance of an upside down clock?
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: My latest Novel
« on: September 22, 2012, 12:29:10 PM »
awww man, thanks Cocorite! 
ah blushing!
Book two is well underway and I hope to release it, at least in e-version, by mid 2013! Carlton and helene mash up the place, and Gloria..well...boy...commess...troo troo..
Heard about the Brooklyn lit fest. Wish I were there!
point me in the direction of your writing please?
ah blushing!Book two is well underway and I hope to release it, at least in e-version, by mid 2013! Carlton and helene mash up the place, and Gloria..well...boy...commess...troo troo..
Heard about the Brooklyn lit fest. Wish I were there!
point me in the direction of your writing please?
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: My latest Novel
« on: September 21, 2012, 08:33:16 PM »
looking forward to feed back from y'all!
It is not strictly a romance and from what I'm told by the males who have read it, it can possibly appeal to men too.
It is not strictly a romance and from what I'm told by the males who have read it, it can possibly appeal to men too.
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: My latest Novel
« on: September 21, 2012, 09:24:46 AM »
Bakes, just doh visualize, you should be good to go!
Thanks all. But doh forget, talk is one ting, but we authors need you to BUY the book and THEN talk!!
Nice?
Thanks all. But doh forget, talk is one ting, but we authors need you to BUY the book and THEN talk!!
Nice?
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: My latest Novel
« on: September 20, 2012, 08:13:14 PM »
http://www.guardian.co.tt/lifestyle/2012-09-13/romance-writing-alive-and-well-tt
It's kinda hard for an author to hide but I hid quite well for years while writing a newspaper column under this nom de plume. But once my first book hit back in 2007, it became increasingly difficult to do so. This latest book is under my real name and now my whole baxide is out in the road.
All I can do now is keep it tidy...
Hope you all will spread the word and support yours truly.
It's kinda hard for an author to hide but I hid quite well for years while writing a newspaper column under this nom de plume. But once my first book hit back in 2007, it became increasingly difficult to do so. This latest book is under my real name and now my whole baxide is out in the road.
All I can do now is keep it tidy...
Hope you all will spread the word and support yours truly.
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / My latest Novel
« on: September 20, 2012, 05:40:13 PM »
My latest Novel
folks,
I have a new novel out on the shelves.
It is titled "Across from Lapeyrouse"
It is available:
On Amazon (worldwide) for KINDLE and in paperback
Barnes and Noble for NOOK and in paperback
personally autographed copies available at:
Commess University
(supplies running low for the paperback!)
also in Toronto at:
A Different Booklist
in Trinidad at:
Paper Based Bookshop
Reader's Bookshop
Tales 'N Treasures
Overview
Jeneva is growing into a startling beauty, but she's not your typical young girl; she's the youngest of the Savanoys, a high profile Trinidadian family. Her father is the chief of police; her mother: beautiful, talented, tormented and distant. Her protective older brother can't shield her from life's bruises if he can't deal with his own fears. And Jeneva herself is growing into a testing adulthood, full of uncertainty and sudden lust, shining moments and stifling tension.
Hers is a family with secrets, and they are not the only ones. Everyone wears masks as intriguing, as deceptive and as weighty as the elaborate masquerade costumes the Savanoy Carnival Group creates each year to compete in Trinidad's Dimanche Gras Competition. And as each secret is revealed, Jeneva faces difficult decisions, adventure, heart break and some seriously sizzling sex.
Author Nathalie Taghaboni deftly weaves the lives of her characters in and out of the pulsing Caribbean culture. The glorious street theatre that is Trinidad Carnival is a fitting backdrop for the drama that Jeneva seems to attract.
critical review:
Never before has carnival, sand, soca and sex met in such a combustible mixture! Across From Lapeyrouse conjures it all as we fall in love with Jeneva Marie, the queen of the bands. The Savanoy family lives large in the pages of this trail blazing work by a Trini expat. You can hear the twang and see the streets of Port of Spain and Toronto as the story unveils with brilliant style and shrewd story telling.
_______________
Hope you folks grab a copy and read. Let me know what you think! The book has its own facebook page or you can review it on Amazon/Barnes and Noble!
thank you
folks,
I have a new novel out on the shelves.
It is titled "Across from Lapeyrouse"
It is available:
On Amazon (worldwide) for KINDLE and in paperback
Barnes and Noble for NOOK and in paperback
personally autographed copies available at:
Commess University
(supplies running low for the paperback!)
also in Toronto at:
A Different Booklist
in Trinidad at:
Paper Based Bookshop
Reader's Bookshop
Tales 'N Treasures
Overview
Jeneva is growing into a startling beauty, but she's not your typical young girl; she's the youngest of the Savanoys, a high profile Trinidadian family. Her father is the chief of police; her mother: beautiful, talented, tormented and distant. Her protective older brother can't shield her from life's bruises if he can't deal with his own fears. And Jeneva herself is growing into a testing adulthood, full of uncertainty and sudden lust, shining moments and stifling tension.
Hers is a family with secrets, and they are not the only ones. Everyone wears masks as intriguing, as deceptive and as weighty as the elaborate masquerade costumes the Savanoy Carnival Group creates each year to compete in Trinidad's Dimanche Gras Competition. And as each secret is revealed, Jeneva faces difficult decisions, adventure, heart break and some seriously sizzling sex.
Author Nathalie Taghaboni deftly weaves the lives of her characters in and out of the pulsing Caribbean culture. The glorious street theatre that is Trinidad Carnival is a fitting backdrop for the drama that Jeneva seems to attract.
critical review:
Never before has carnival, sand, soca and sex met in such a combustible mixture! Across From Lapeyrouse conjures it all as we fall in love with Jeneva Marie, the queen of the bands. The Savanoy family lives large in the pages of this trail blazing work by a Trini expat. You can hear the twang and see the streets of Port of Spain and Toronto as the story unveils with brilliant style and shrewd story telling.
_______________
Hope you folks grab a copy and read. Let me know what you think! The book has its own facebook page or you can review it on Amazon/Barnes and Noble!
thank you
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Bourne Legacy
« on: August 13, 2012, 04:50:35 PM »
I hid my face during the lab scene, the mister was laughing at me. I'm such a coward.
You can't take a bad panorama of Alaska doh eh? Sweet for days!
had to laugh at the police in manilla, real keystone cops..
You can't take a bad panorama of Alaska doh eh? Sweet for days!
had to laugh at the police in manilla, real keystone cops..
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Bourne Legacy
« on: August 12, 2012, 01:07:00 PM »
just my 2 cents TT...steupse.
The other Bourne movies were worth the effort, so I was looking forward to this one but..STEUPSE
The other Bourne movies were worth the effort, so I was looking forward to this one but..STEUPSE
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Bourne Legacy
« on: August 12, 2012, 10:16:00 AM »
Went with the mister to see it last night.
*sigh*
I want a refund.
the credits started running and I still waiting for the movie to start.
*sigh*
I want a refund.
the credits started running and I still waiting for the movie to start.
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: ite car talk time again
« on: July 05, 2012, 05:09:56 PM »
Bajan? 
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: ite car talk time again
« on: July 04, 2012, 10:20:47 AM »
Oh geeede! Yuh ever had Grey Poupon? It nasty.
I travel nuff miles to find that car. Take me whole day.
Let me see what the next winter does and how Rufus the 4Matic handles it. This past winter was very mild, hardly any snow. I done know we en getting that lucky twice in a row.
Bakes, the plate will say..STEUPSE
I travel nuff miles to find that car. Take me whole day.
Let me see what the next winter does and how Rufus the 4Matic handles it. This past winter was very mild, hardly any snow. I done know we en getting that lucky twice in a row.
Bakes, the plate will say..STEUPSE
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: ite car talk time again
« on: June 29, 2012, 08:02:07 PM »
I en go lie, it sweet.
I got it last Saturday. Got the temp plates on it til I can get the vanity ones ordered.
Sonny gone with it several times already. I done tell he if he hit it, pick up the rims and keep going...
I got it last Saturday. Got the temp plates on it til I can get the vanity ones ordered.
Sonny gone with it several times already. I done tell he if he hit it, pick up the rims and keep going...
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: ite car talk time again
« on: June 29, 2012, 06:26:18 AM »
which movie? And if yuh bring KFC, it go have a noise.
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: ite car talk time again
« on: June 28, 2012, 08:22:35 AM »
I will take a snap of the plate if I get through. Look Bakes start laughing already. Yuh see all yuh?
Mr-Fix-it, the one son I have now making sure he emptying my pockets. He's going off to university this fall and for some reason this place like to gouge out students/parents - a heinous arrangement. No one should do this to me without at least buying me dinner first.
Dutty, do I really sound like a winer girl? Serious? Not even close...
As for the silk rope reference, Freud has nothing to do with it...I'm more of a Pavlovian...
Mr-Fix-it, the one son I have now making sure he emptying my pockets. He's going off to university this fall and for some reason this place like to gouge out students/parents - a heinous arrangement. No one should do this to me without at least buying me dinner first.
Dutty, do I really sound like a winer girl? Serious? Not even close...
As for the silk rope reference, Freud has nothing to do with it...I'm more of a Pavlovian...
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: ite car talk time again
« on: June 27, 2012, 04:46:41 PM »
got the C300 4-matic. Nice ride, turns a corner like a silk rope. Used but in pristine condition. Wait til yuh see the plate...but yuh cah laugh at me eh?
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: ite car talk time again
« on: June 27, 2012, 06:42:27 AM »Allyuh have real bank we, my car is over 30 years old.
Wah yu talking bout, Queen selling nuff books....Ask Dutty, he have about 10 copies by now
steupse...
Dutty is only talk. I hear he buy one book but it on layaway..
Observer...I work hard, mister work hard, we have to have a toy to say we could see what we doing wid de money. And is no way he letting me go in the road with something that might break down and leave me stranded. He sweet dat way.
Ah get de car but now waiting for the dealer to send de papers. Ah want a vanity plate...lol (yes I am spoiled.)
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: ite car talk time again
« on: June 23, 2012, 09:06:03 AM »
alright, so we are getting closer to the decision.
Looks like a purchase not a lease. The mister got himself a lease, so two leases makes no sense.
Waiting on the dealer to get his act together and write down a price that we can't refuse. Will hopefully post a shot of the new chariot soon.
Looks like a purchase not a lease. The mister got himself a lease, so two leases makes no sense.
Waiting on the dealer to get his act together and write down a price that we can't refuse. Will hopefully post a shot of the new chariot soon.
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: ite car talk time again
« on: June 06, 2012, 12:11:48 PM »boy ah wish.
Since I small I wanted a Jag eh, the ticket on the window say $88K, but I know the car look sweet but does ride wrongy-tongy after two trips to the grocree. Dem ting not in my reach. Have to sell more than 2 book.
we were across the street looking at a 2010 B'mer when I spot the black Jag and nearly get lick down to run across and take a snap fuh yuh.
Since the talk start I have test driven a Subaru BRZ - sweet lil ride but no back seat. It might to be a lease option because it en look like it would last longer than the Red House fire.
Drove a Hyundai Velostar, again, same ting, sweet ride as it new but it en look wholesome.
Now looking at a Jetta and one other but taking my sweet time.
I like car shopping and the mister like no better joke. He have me looking at cars I never even hear bout. Nissan have something called a JIVE. Every see it? Sweet rear and in front look like somebody mash it.
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: ite car talk time again
« on: June 04, 2012, 06:02:29 PM »
Dutty whey you?
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Moruga Tales - the book
« on: May 21, 2012, 11:19:19 AM »
Why am I only now seeing this? steupse.
Pecan, boy BIG UP!
If I may assist in anyway, let me know! Mi knowledge, es su knowledge!
Pecan, boy BIG UP!
If I may assist in anyway, let me know! Mi knowledge, es su knowledge!
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: ite car talk time again
« on: May 17, 2012, 10:40:54 AM »y'know if yuh dumb down yuh writin style and do a fifty shades of grey type a book...yuh could lease a bentley arnage without blinking
I tried dumbing down a few times. And sometimes I WAS dumb and didn't have to try.
I've been accused of "trying a ting" when I was caught dumbing down. A professor once accused me of trying to make him look stupid when I pretended I didn't catch what he said. Another woman cuss me from a to z...so, ah give up and now I just stay real. Who like it, nice, Who doh like it, nice.
I've never read Shades of Grey so can't really comment. I've read some "best sellers" and wondered how come? I've read some back-of-the-shelf books and wondered why they weren't bestsellers.
Another part of the problem is that since I write with a huge Caribbean flavour, it doesn't appeal to the large publishers. It's why I created my own independent publishing company. We have a LOT of talent out there. I help them self publish.
The most painful part of what I do is when I hear a Trinidadian bookseller tell me "Trinis don't read".
yet, we line up to buy Harry Potter but would ask a local author to give we a bligh or family pricing on their book.
but...I shall struggle on...s'what I do. The Bentley will have to wait.
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: ite car talk time again
« on: May 17, 2012, 06:15:01 AM »Come troo!
The T&T launch is right after carnival 2k13 at NALIS. Stay tuned.
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: ite car talk time again
« on: May 16, 2012, 10:36:29 AM »Brownsugar, it has been on Amazon since February! I posted it here somewhere. Had a thread all about the book. Ent you on my Facebook too?
The name of the book is "Across From Lapeyrouse"
It is available:
on KINDLE (www.amazon.com)
paperback on Amazon and Barnes and Nobles
NOOK (www.BarnesAndNoble.com)
if you want it personally autographed, you can get it on my website at www.CommessUniversity.com
A couple bookstores in Trinidad have it also:
Paper Based Bookshop in the Normandie Hotel
Reader's Bookshop in St. James.
If you get it in time, come join the bacchanal discussion on Facebook on See Nen Nen News Book Club.