Kubuitsile writes for Haiti earthquake recovery efforts

GASEBALWE SERETSE
Staff Writer | Wednesday March 3, 2010 00:00

 

The project was initiated by British author Greg McQueen who asked hundreds of writers worldwide to contribute a collection of stories for Haiti and the end product is going to be an e-book and a paperback that will be published tomorrow (March, 4) and all the proceeds from the book will go to earthquake recovery efforts in Haiti.

My story, Birds of a Feather, is a humorous story about a woman who joins a bird watching club in Gaborone though she hates birding just get closer to a University of Botswana professor she has fallen in love with,' said Kubuitsile in an interview with Showbiz. According to a press release from the 100 Stories for Haiti, on the morning of January 19, McQueen posted a video on his blog saying:

'Dear Twitterverse, I can't keep watching this on the news or trending on Twitter without doing something. I woke up this morning with the idea that together we could make a book and donate profits to the British Red Cross.'Within hours, news spread throughout the microblogging website, Twitter, and story submissions began arriving.

By the submission deadline a week later, the project had received over 400 submissions, whittled down to 100 during the following week and the full, 80, 000-word manuscript was edited and assembled within two weeks of McQueen's first announcement.  Fortunately for Kubuitsile, Birds of a Feather was among the chosen.

The book will appear on smashwords.com as an e-book, and published as a paperback through Bridge House Publishing available on-line and in shops.  

Kubuitsile told Showbiz that this is not the first time that she has written for charity. In  2008, she took part in One World project in which international authors wrote an anthology of short stories to raise funds for Doctors Without Borders.

The short story that she contributed was titled Rich People's School, and according to the writer the book is prescribed in a number of schools in the United States of America (US).