My writing journey began immediately after finishing high school in December of 2014. I felt a conviction from the Holy Spirit to put down in writing both my academic as well as my spiritual journey up to that point in my life. So I dedicated a minimum of two hours daily for nearly 2-3 months consecutively to writing the manuscript. At the time I’d been encouraged by my dad to take up a Certified Public Accounts course as I waited to join campus. I enrolled for section I in January. My parents thought that I was busy studying for CPA every night as I spent quite some time alone in the study room but in an actual sense I was busy putting my manuscript together day after day.

I know at this point one may wonder whether I was focused on finishing up the first CPA section(which I eventually did but after a gruesome and rigorous study time a month before the CPA exam). To the parents here, you can never be 100% sure what your teenager is up to when they spend quite some time alone in their rooms. Great things might be happening or sadly the converse is also true but I digress. Eventually, after three months I had almost three A4 exercise books filled up with my story and that’s when I decided to break the news to them of what I’d been up to. My parents were simply amazed when I told them that I wanted to publish the manuscript into a book. Their support was quite overwhelming and I thank God for having granted me such parents.

To cut a long story short, the book got published a couple of weeks after the release of KCSE results. It couldn’t have come at a better time, as it gave me an opportunity to do a couple of motivational talks in various primary and secondary schools. In a manner of speaking, I gained a short-term career before joining the university.

The first book had a lot of issues with the kind of workmanship that went into it (which was my first major lesson in the school of hard knocks on Self-publishing) but by God’s help, it still sold almost 85% of my overall stock. I attribute it to God’s favor and providence. I remember a day I sold 70 copies in a span of about three hours during my primary school’s academic day. Fast forward a couple of years later and the pandemic hit us hard and once more the inspiration to write came again so strongly until I wrote and went through the whole publishing process in a span of around 2-3 months (yes I know that might not be common but it happened as things were going on concurrently). From an article I’d published on a friend’s blog back in 2018 with the same title “The Gift of Presence” and was slowly gathering dust on my hard drive disk, I picked up that dry bone and added some flesh to it, and voila out came a book.

The book is now available as an ebook on Amazon and BooksformySoul as well as a hardcopy at Keswick Bookshop and Chania Bookshop along Moi Avenue.