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AUTHOR'S PREFACE

AUTHOR’S PREFACE
Fortune Emerence Chinemerem Nwaiwu is a published author of both literary and religious books.
He did not come into writing because he was good at writing or he knew what to write. His writing skill came up as a manifestation of God's benevolent gift bestowed on him.
When he was an undergraduate student‎ reading works written by people, especially Horace Walpole, Wole Soyika, and William Shakespeare, he desired to be a great author like them, and then he prayed to God to make him a great author.
If he has nothing to write about and puts his pen on paper, some ideas and novel thoughts flow out from his imagination. After writing a Bible study guide titled Echoes of the Widows, he was touched, having felt the pains and agony of widowhood, then he set out to extend such sufferings and griefs of which widows experience into his novella titled Widows In The Web Of Grief.

He has written many unpublished books. Due to lack of funds, he is unable to publish some of them them. The Devil in the Cathedral: A Shadow of Death was published in 2016, along with Echoes of the Widows with 400 copies produced for each.

Since there was no finance or help, he decided not to write anymore…until Dr. Douglas Winslow Cooper, a former professor at Harvard University, USA, helped by writing the Foreword to Widows in The Web of Grief. Dr. Cooper’s assistance then motivated the author to write this heart-rending novella, Prisoners of Hope, a book Dr. Cooper has edited according to American conventions, for which the author thanks him.
The author can be reached at:
F.E.C. Nwaiwu
Port Harcourt
Nigeria
Fortune.nwaiwu.fn@gmail.com

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