Mystery Publishers bestselling books of 2021, combined paperbacks and ebooks, are compiled from sales reports from all distribution channels.
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We are pleased to announce the publication of our newest book, The Ogre of Sebet by Kathryn Langat.
Ogre stories are intended to send a moral message to the audience not to despise each other or look down upon those who come from poor families. Instead, they should be humble and seek advice from their…
… even though darkness will cloud your vision,
The stars will be the light when you dream,
Guiding you to better paths,
Reminding you of the success in new chances …
Heart Strings is a collection of poems of hope, rebirth, and reawakening.
It is a source of hope to those who have given up,…
Mystery Publishers has won the Corporate LiveWire Global Award in the Digital Publishing Company of the Year 2021/2022. In July 2021, Mystery Publishers was awarded the Middle East and African (MEA) Markets African Business Excellence Award for the Best Independent Digital Publishing Company – Kenya.
We are pleased to announce the publication of ‘Our Stories Redefined’ 2021 (Poetry) Anthology. The anthology celebrates new age African writing; a vehicle for new-age African writers to tell their stories to a generation that understands them.
Parents and guardians need to know that this book will draw in emergent readers. It includes positive messages on caring for and building trust with each other in the community.
One book, nine stories—terrorism and the terror it causes the counter-terrorism operatives combating the menace; impacts of unbridled hedonism and anger; and how obsession with traditions kills societies.
Mystery Books, an imprint Mystery Publishers, has cancelled the publication of Sketches of Urban Strife: An Anthology of New Age African Poetry due to challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, the editor in-charge of the project got engaged somewhere else and won’t be able to proceed with the project in the foreseeable future.
Complete list of winners was to be published by the end of July 2021, and at last the list is out. Check out the press release.
No more stories of hunger, starvation, colonialism, endless tribal wars and clashes, or West-driven themes; we are redefining African stories, telling stories of hope, the future, new generation.
We are delighted to announce the finalists for the Mystery Publishers’ 5th Anniversary ‘Our Stories Redefined’ poetry edition, 2021.
Independently published authors treated readers in Nairobi treated to a fun and fair book fest on 25 and 26 June, 2021 at the Alliance Française de Nairobi. As the writer Garrison Keillor says, “A book is a gift you can open again and again”, the NYrobi Book Fest did gift readers.
We are seeking to recruit a dedicated, professional, and highly skilled freelance book marketers/publicists. The following are the genres that we publish:
fiction (novels – romance, crime, fantasy, etc),
flash fiction,
short stories,
erotica,
poetry, and
non-fiction (all sub-genres except spiritual and educational books).
Alliance Française de Nairobi has organised a book fest to promote Kenyan literature and content creation. The book fest will focus on self-published books, authors, and booksellers/distributors of self-published books.
In the Strategic Writing Fundamentals, you get your formal writing right, regardless of your professional background or specialty. The book gives you enduring fundamentals to help you produce accurate, concise, and clear information for the reader.
Every year, to celebrate our milestones in redefining African stories, we will be publishing an anthology of poems or flash fiction.