Hello, I’m Myne - Your New Hit Man

A Hitman? You ask? LOL...

Let me tell you a story. Myne Whitman is a pen name but not too long after I started writing online, a reader pointed out that it was an anagram. Myne-Whitman = My-New-Hitman. So apt for what I can do for you as you begin to write online too :)

So who is Myne Whitman?

I am Nkem Okotcha,  first and foremost a lover and a romantic. I am also the wife of an amazing man who loves me a lot. To the moon and back, and back again :)

I'm a story teller and writer at heart, and a lover of all things community and Nigeria. I believe strongly in writing down our stories so they're not lost, confused, or told by someone else. Where possible, I also think we should share those stories.

I am also a doer, and I want to bring my experience of making an income from writing online to work for you. I can make blogging, self publishing and social media marketing easy for you. A lot of people want to write, and have people read what they have to say, but don't know how to start. I say start a free blog, and we'll take it from there.

I have created this consultancy services to help you do that.

As a blogger, self published author, or small-business owner, there is so much to do and learn, and coming online and marketing yourself seems like such a chore.

But it is an important aspect of being successful in what you do, be it in making money from writing or promoting your small business. The world is moving beyond traditional media to obtain information or consume content. Millions of people are online, either creating content or active influencers of virtual communities.

And this is where social media comes in, and where I can help you and teach you to shine.

My first novel, A Heart to Mend and the second also, A Love Rekindled, went on to become runaway bestsellers on Amazon.com. This was done purely through blogging, utilising online contacts and word of mouth. A Heart to Mend stayed at #1 in the romance bestselling lists for 6 weeks straight!


I hope you enjoy looking around, and do join me on the other two thriving online projects I've founded so far, Romance Meets Life, or Naijastories.com, a relationship magazine and a community of writers respectively.


Talking my Next Book on Woman's Essence Mag

What’s your next book about? My work in progress is tentatively titled ‘A Fiery Love’. Thirty year old Dunni returns to Nigeria on vacation and is seduced by local lothario, Babs. Can the chemistry between them translate to lasting love?"

Read more - Myne Whitman is Africa’s Romance Queen | Woman's Essence Magazine

Worldreader Demos A Heart to Mend in Book App

Worldreader is a charity whose mission is to make digital books available to all in the developing world, enabling millions of people to improve their lives. First focusing on distributing Kindle e-readers to rural schools in some African countries, Worldreader is now moving into providing reading content to feature phones through the BiNu phone app.

Read in Full: Worldreader Demos A Heart to Mend in new Book App

Interview with Blueprint Newspaper

"Myne Whitman, a Nigerian romance writer and blogger based in America, in this interview with AWAAL GATA, talks about her two novels, A Heart to Mend and A Love Rekindled. She also dissects the reasons why she is a romance writer and how the internet has globalised writers.

When and how did you start writing?

I have been writing for quite a while now. I remember writing while still in primary and secondary schools, but I only became serious when I got to the University. The decision to send my work out into the world matured around the middle of 2009. I had just moved to the United States and being unable to work at first, I began writing full time, initially for six months. I joined a writing group, started a blog, and people seemed to like what I had to write about. Eventually, I made up my mind to pursue this full time writing career and see where it took me."

Read full interview - I am a romance writer because of my marriage – Whitman : blueprint newspaper

On BusinessDay - Telling the Naija stories

"Romance fiction may seems too escapist for some people, but for the writer, “If a reader wants to escape through a romance novel, that is perfectly okay, the world is tough enough as it is.”

She shares that she receives a large number of fans’ mails letting her know that her stories have given them an insight they never had. On profitability, Whitman’s first book, A Heart to Mend, occupied the first position on the AmazonUK Kindle store for romantic suspense. To date, over 20,000 copies have been downloaded. Her second book, A Love Rekindled, was at the top of the bestseller list for one of the major books stores in Lagos between August and September. But, regardless of the number of copies sold, the writer appreciates that her stories can help readers make sense of the world around them."

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