My friend Lornette Joseph and I were fortunate to attend a Bloggers get together held at Skoobs in Monte Casino recently. We are bloggers (Check out Lornette's fantastic Madiba related post Forever A Man of the Times here) and as if the thrill of attending such an event in such an eclectic venue wasn’t enough, we were fortunate in that I was selected as one of the winners to interview authors Jassy McKenzie and Jo- Anne Richards!
Jassy Mackenzie
is from a family where books weren’t just more important than television; they
were so important that television was banned from the house.
Today, Jassy is the editor of HJ, a hair and beauty
trade magazine. She has had numerous non-fiction articles on a wide variety of
subjects published locally and internationally over the past 11 years.
Jo-Anne Richards is a South African novelist and
journalist, whose work has been published internationally. She teaches creative
writing through Allaboutwriting and lectures at Wits
University in Johannesburg.