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Author Message   Tee C. Royal Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 12:26 am:        Kola, in a lot of your posts, you mention your books...can you please tell me the titles. The only one I'm aware of is Long Train to the Redeeming Sin: Stories About African Women. Or are the books you mention not published yet? Thanks. -Tee   Kola Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 01:03 am:        Hi Tee, My first book "Every Little Bit Hurts" is in Arabic and published in 8 countries. The original version of "Long Train" is called "The Goddess Flower" and is also published over seas. "Long Train" is my first book published in the United States. Because I have been on a tiny Moroccan imprint for 5 years (owned by a wonderful Ethiopian), my work has been hard for many people to find. My memoirs, "Diary of a Lost Girl" (Which Fox Searchlight is trying to shape into a script for Halle Berry to star in) has been temporarily cancelled as a book due to my former publisher's printing press being blown up in Morocco and the death threats against my life by officials of the Sudanese government, namely Gamal Ibrahaim and my ex-lover Hassan Turabi. "DIARY" is also being held back so that my affair with Osama Bin Laden can now be included, which I tried desperately to hide from the public until the Guardian in London and other British newspapers forced me to be forthcoming. This is what the film version would probably focus on. I think the New York Post has been the most fair in covering that affair on their gossipy Page 6...as others have tried to "trash" it up and make it seem like I was a sex slave rather than a mistress. I was only with Bin Laden for 6 months and I left with nearly $100,000 in gifts. I sold a Yemenese Water Box to the British Commonwealth for $65,000. That was in 1997, the affair was in 1996. The book I'm writing now is about 3 young African American women who inexplicably decide to start their own religion following traumatic events in their personal and social lives. It's called "Virgins In the Beehive" (an African oromo term). I am glad to finally write something that speaks directly to AA women and inwhich I can express my love and pride in them by depicting them in a really thoughtful and multi-dimensional light. I think I'm the only African woman who will have written such a book. I don't know when it will be out. The publisher wants the finished draft by March 15th and they're already upset about the book's contents BIGTIME. But why would I write what Americans expect me to write, eh? This is for my girls.   Tee Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Saturday, January 25, 2003 - 11:58 pm:        Okay Kola, thanks for the info. Much success to you, and hopefully you'll resolve the issues with the deadline.