I dey like I no dey!*

HAPPY NEW YEARRRRR!

Yes! I CANNOT believe this is the first time I have blogged this year.
I hope your belief system doesn't hold that not bad luck to wish somebody a happy new year in summer or after a riot season or on a Wednesday in August. I will straight away begin with apologising to my readers for my absence and NOT boring you with all that "How the time flew! business. Yes, it feels like yesterday I was deciding which New Years resolutions I wouldn't bother with but what does it all really matter now?

Why I haven’t been blogging. No I haven't been looting, no I haven't got a beautiful African chieftess pregnant and yes my car has dissapeared!

My alibi: WRITING. Not my blog obviously but my second novel AND a TV show both of which you'll be hearing plenty about soon-soon! By the way, did you buy my first one yet? What Do you Call It? Yeah. THAT one!

Another reason I haven't blogged is I am now in the process of shooting letters off to agents in a hunt for one of them to represent me. I have recently finished with third draft of my second novel that I'm happy with and the process of getting an agent is LONG.

Long? Long. My urban dwellers know what that means. For those who live life neat I mean getting an agent is an UNBELIEVABLY ARDUOUS PROCESS. More of that in the...third? fourth? third blog after this one! (will come back and re-edit this if it's actually the second. Suffice it to say for now getting an agent without whom the big puiblishing houses won't look at you is almost as hard as writing the book itself. Well...it's not really...but it is...but isn't at the same time.

I am inspired to return to my blog writing by the likes of new blogger friends like Dr.Rob, Ms Cole, JJ Bola, Simple Simon and the one and only Evelyn Past-Exotic. Check out their blogs when you get a chance and smile or laugh or nod...or ALL three of those things at the REALLY good parts!

Anyway, back to me! The fact that I obviously can't work creatively and journalistically (as a blog kind of is) it’s a damning indictment (yes- I said ‘indictment’ –we use big English here so ready yourself!) against a claim I like to make when I’m feeling troublesome that men can multi-task as well as women.

But in my defense, while I have been keeping my work-rate up I have been spending copious amounts of time on the Facebook group for this podcast: Eloquently Saying Nothing. It’s a lot of fun on this facebook group and maybe some of my commentary and treatises there might make for the beginnings of blogs HERE. I’m trying to get back in the blogging state of mind -YESSSSSSS! Now that I haven't been writing anything creative for a while I can already feel my blogging and truth telling powers aer returning. And surely, like seeing the car you’re looking to buy constantly driving past I’m gonna surely (I said 'surely' twice in one sentence -did you see it!? you can;t tell I;m African innit! No respect for the propriety of the Queen's Mother's language!) see blog ideas coming at me plentyplenty, from everywhere.

ANYWAY, tell a friend to tell a friend to tell a friend Gbontwi Anyetei is back!
In fact, MI DEYA!

*Oh by the way the title of this blog for those blog: 'I dey like I no dey' is Ghana Pidgin-English phrase that translate as I'm here like I'm not here i.e. just keeping a low profile...which is kind of what I';ve been doing if you don't know where to find me in East London.