Vote, Comment and Tweet (one vote per person). The PriceCheck team will be choosing the 3 finalists but all your votes and tweets will be taken into account when making our decision. Once we choose our 3 finalists we will open up the voting to the public for 48 hrs ONLY - the winner of this final vote will win the R20 000 for their chosen charity.
Paige Nick
Posted by marianna in Celeb Blogathon on Nov 17th, 2010 | 57 commentsPaige Nick - Author, Blogger and Columnist for the Sunday Times
Chosen Charity – The Bookery in Roeland St, it’s part of the Equal Education Foundation. These guys are incredible super heroes. They build and stock libraries in previously disadvantaged schools.
2010 was the year … my world exploded. No seriously, I mean it. You know how you’re trucking along quietly, watching the telly and minding your own business, and then suddenly everything all happens at once and you end up with three birthday parties, an anniversary and a funeral all on the same weekend? Well that’s kind of what happened to me.
This year I had my first novel published by Penguin Books. It’s a romantic comedy called A Million Miles from Normal.
It’s about a South African girl who manages to lose both her job and her fiancé in a massively humiliating public display and is forced to leave South Africa. She decides to move to New York City where she hopes to make it big, to prove to everyone back home that she’s not a complete disaster, although the only apartment she can find is a shoebox sized rat trap. And the only job she can get is at a really dodgy ad agency with a crazy man for a boss and a drug addicted alcoholic for an art director. Sounds dire, I know, but it’s actually a comedy, promise.
Anyway so after the book launch and all the craziness that involved, my blog kind of exploded all over me and went mad, and then I started with the Sunday Times Column in the Lifestyle section. Which is really about life, love and living in the city.
If I were to spend New Year’s in the Northern Cape town of Kakamas, I would pack the following…Isn’t it very hot there? Kaka-off hot, I think. In that case I would definitely take sun screen and a hat. Also a pile of books. Because no matter how far away from home you are, you’re never lonely or alone if you’ve got a book. And if it’s not being too greedy, can I take a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label with me, too?
Nobody knows that… I’m writing this in my pyjamas.
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Anything to do with the Bookery has my vote. Good luck!
I have voted for you and wish you lots of luck in the final round.
Guaranteed of my vote and my colleagues. Good initiatives needs support only.
All the best, Paige! You have my vote & hearty congrats on getting your novel published. I’m off to go & buy it
the bookery is great …get’s my vote
Hi guys, thanks so much for your support. but as of yesterday the finalist section of the competition moved to the PriceCheck Facebook Page which is over here:
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/PriceCheckSA
all you have to do is visit that page, then like the page and then like my profile, for your vote to count. holding thumbs we can bring this home for The Bookery.
thanks so much for your support!
OH DEAR, that website didn’t click through nicely, here it is again, rather click here:
http://on.fb.me/fjCNgY
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