Just Done Productions would like to announce the release of the "Strange Tale of Ruby Devenpeck" and the companion book "Delilah's Alibi: Ruby’s Poetry and Lyrics Journal" by Anne Whittle.
This novella was written and submitted as part of the Human and Rousseau / You / SABC Education/RSG's 2006 "I'm a writer" competition. " The Strange Tale of Ruby Devenpeck" was short listed in the top 6 English submissions.
The story has a strong South African flavour, and is aimed at the teenage female market. In spite of this, the story does have an appeal to a broader audience -because it is multi-layered and anyone looking back at their youth will recognise universal themes; of coming of age, of love, of death, of growth and discovery.
Ruby's story is a mystery and a journey, a story of a 17 year old girl who is growing up in a small town in South Africa. We meet a variety of characters, some interesting, some despicable, although one of the delights of Ruby's story is that sometimes the most attractive characters harbour the deepest secrets. Ruby's love of music and language is evident throughout the novel. The music Ruby listens to and the discussions she has, as well as her performance in her band, Delilah's Alibi create the sense of a movie soundtrack playing in the background. This soundtrack is a reflection of contemporary South African culture with an added sprinkling of global influences. The story of Ruby's adventures and her journey of discovery, is indeed a strange tale and the surprises and twist of the plot continue right until a most surprising ending.
Ruby's poetry and lyrics are spread through the novel like the leavening in bread, and they are collated in the companion book "Delilah's Alibi: Ruby’s Poetry and Lyrics Journal".
Just Done Productions - Publishing is a company located in Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. We pride ourselves on producing quality, professional press-ready manuscripts for publication. We offer a publication option that allows the author to publish without spending any of their own capital ... and yet to receive a professional service. Your manuscript can be turned into a book. Contact publish@justdone.co.za for more information.
Just Done Productions wil graag die vrystelling van 'n nuwe boek aankondig: Klippekou deur Frans Botes. Die skrywer is ‘n voormalige kolonel van die ou SA Weermag se dae. Agv swak gesondheid moes hy die SAW verlaat in 1990, kort voordat hy ‘n pos in die buiteland sou aanvaar.
In November 2004 beleef hy ‘n ernstige terugslag, tot so ‘n mate dat ‘n sekere spesialis in Engeland hom slegs een jaar gee om te bly lewe.
Hierdie is ‘n versameling van nuusbriewe en stories wat die skrywer vir een jaar deel met sy vriende, kollegas en familie wat hom en sy gesin in moeilike tye getrou bystaan. Die leser sal soms ervaar hoe die skrywer stoei met homself, sy siekte, sy desperaatheid, vrese en sy omstandighede, maar telkens kom hy opnuut tot die besef dat sy heil slegs in God te vinde is. Die een oomblik gaan dit fisies met hom baie goed, net om dan weer die volgende oomblik in die hospitaal te beland. Sy gesondheid ry die hele tyd wipplank, so ook sy gemoed.
Hierdie verhaal is nie om aan ander Christene voor te skryf hoe om te leef nie. Dit is slegs die klankbord van ‘n soldaat wat sy lewe voluit gelewe het en nou in moeilike tye klippe gekou het om te oorleef. Dit is sy getuienis.
Just Done Productions - Publishing is a company located in Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. We pride ourselves on producing quality, professional press-ready manuscripts for publication. We offer a publication option that allows the author to publish without spending any of their own capital ... and yet to receive a professional service. Your manuscript can be turned into a book. Contact publish@justdone.co.za for more information.
“The Silver Chrysalis” is a modern fable set in the beguiling atmosphere of 21st century Greece. It describes with a gentle and sympathetic touch, the unfolding of a deep and lovingrelationship between an enchanting woman and an older man - two superficially sophisticated people who, despite their cosmopolitan charm, are burdened by doubt and insecurity.
During a journey that takes them from the clamour of Athens to the rural tranquillity of Cephalonia, their familiar and comfortable worlds are changed irrevocably.
The story contains essential and familiar elements of classical works - comedy and tragedy, drama and pathos. The author’s style is romantically sensual, whether he is describing Greek food and drink, music and dance, the evocative and unchanging land and seascapes or the physical relationship that develops between the hero and heroine. Serious moments are suddenly enlightened by quiet shafts of humour and there are hilarious interludes during which the dialogue verges on the outrageous while subtly casting a spotlight on sexual exploitation and hypocrisy.
The reader will be captivated by the author’s powerful descriptive writing and lured into a sun drenched idyll that gives no warning of impending tragedy that is, initially, only vaguely sensed like the distant rumble of thunder on a hot, still afternoon..
The author was educated at Stellenbosch and Oxford universities and spent 32 years in the South African foreign service. He has lived, worked and travelled in Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia and has accompanied an expedition to Antarctica and the sub antarctic islands. He has written numerous travel articles. The "Silver Chrysalis" is his first work of fiction.
Just Done Productions - Publishing is a company located in Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. We pride ourselves on producing quality, professional press-ready manuscripts for publication. We offer a publication option that allows the author to publish without spending any of their own capital ... and yet to receive a professional service. Your manuscript can be turned into a book. Contact publish@justdone.co.za for more information.
Just Done Productions is proud to announce the release of Journey Without Boundaries, the memoirs of Col André Diedericks HCS, HC, SM, MMM.
This is the extraordinary tale of an extraordinary man. An honestly told story of his military career, of a man who was twice decorated for valour, who pioneered and developed the concept of “small team reconnaissance” within the South African Special Forces.
He was a consummate warrior and gentleman and has told his story with humility and a disarming sense that what he did was simply the job he was given, when even the most cursory reading will show that it was anything but simple or easy. From start to finish, his life was truly a ‘Journey without Boundaries’.
These memoirs were written by Col Diedericks, better known as "Diedies", before his untimely death from cancer in 2005. The book is available for purchase from Just Done Productions via their website at http://www.justdone.co.za/.
International purchasers can obtain the book from Lulu, but should be aware that only the South African version contains colour photos.
Just Done Productions - Publishing is a company located in Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. We pride ourselves on producing quality, professional press-ready manuscripts for publication. We offer a publication option that allows the author to publish without spending any of their own capital ... and yet to receive a professional service. Your manuscript can be turned into a book. Contact publish@justdone.co.za for more information.
Just Done Productions would like to announce the publication of a new volume of poetry. The poetry in this volume compels you to join the author in a ride through her thoughts and feelings on love, relationships, and life. At times uplifting, depressing and erotic, this is an intimate glimpse that we are privileged to share.
About the Author
Astrid was born in Zimbabwe and currently resides in Cape Town, She is both a practicing artist and poet. She attended a number of schools in Zimbabwe, England and South Africa which added a different dimension to her education. She studied Art at Michaelis, Ruth Prowse and under private tuition. Astrid works in oil and mixed media on canvas and actively participates in a local poetry and writing group.
During her childhood she travelled extensively as her father was a pilot and her mother a travel agent. In later life she travelled to the Orient and India, where she spent a year living in the foothills of the Himalayas. She has travelled to India 14 times since 1979. Most recently Astrid has travelled to Ireland, where she has spent time visiting monastic sites and Neolithic ruins and gaining inspiration for her creative expression.
She continues to write and is currently working on a novel.
Just Done Productions - Publishing is a company located in Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. We pride ourselves on producing quality, professional press-ready manuscripts for publication. We offer a publication option that allows the author to publish without spending any of their own capital ... and yet to receive a professional service. Your manuscript can be turned into a book. Contact publish@justdone.co.za for more information.
Just Done Productions - Publishing is proud to announce the release of a new novel by Simon Norval. This is a novel about the South African Navy in a fictional account of a war in the future. It involves all the modern naval acquisitions and the plot can be seen as a projection of the Navy's role in future conflicts in Southern Africa.
Adamastor Rising
Price: R140.00
From the author:
This book has been written at a time when the South African government has through its much vaunted, and often controversial ‘arms package’, acquired for the use of its Navy, new frigates, maritime helicopters and conventional submarines.
The South African Navy itself is currently undergoing a metamorphosis from that of a ‘small ship’ Navy to that of one with a potential of becoming a larger, regional and continental maritime force. On this basis, it provides the capability of ‘out of area’ operations with extensive liaison and collaboration with other African nations and their Navies. Not that of romantic ‘blue water’ stuff, but acting rather as an instrument of the nation’s foreign policy in terms of providing monitoring, peacekeeping and, if necessary, intervention within the context of coastal, littoral and riverine operations.
As the economic powerhouse of the region, and in fact, Africa itself, South Africa also dominates regional and African politics through the catalyst provided by SADC and the fledgling African Parliament. Its responsibility, therefore, extends not only over its own expansive Economic Exclusion Zone (EEZ) of some two million square nautical miles, but also, as Africa’s ‘senior partner’, within the seaward territorial limits of other African maritime nations.
Whereas South Africa remains, after its democratic transformation process, essentially stable and prosperous, Africa itself remains in turmoil, with civil wars, sporadic inter-tribal genocide, coups d’état, civil unrest and insurgency commonplace.
This novel attempts to sketch possible or even likely scenario’s within which the South African Navy could operate. To this end, I have, as far as possible, devised scenarios and events that could be considered credible within the African littoral context.
Although the core of this book is that of ‘naval stuff’, the relationship to the service and its government and other governments are played out through the medium of largely fictitious persons and entirely fictitious situations.
The plot develops from an essentially naval perspective and attempts to demystify a typical regional maritime conflict for the layman. It was therefore inevitable that an abundance of ‘naval jargon’ would have to be used, in keeping with that used by the Navy. Without this, the plot would have been devoid of plausibility and thus meaningless.
The novel similarly attempts to tap into the typical psyche of naval personnel, from the highest echelons of command down to the younger sailors as well as those people whose lives are directly or otherwise affected by the activities and ways of the Navy.
The capabilities and limitations of all naval ships, specifically those of the frigates and submarines, are described in general terms only.The associated analysis of frigate system performance, made throughout the book, are typical attributes associated with, and encountered by, all naval systems and do not specifically reflect on SA Navy system characteristics.
The characteristics and attributes of all combat platforms (in ships and aircraft alike) and their weapons fits, are based entirely on information available in the open literature and to be found in unclassified ‘glossies’. Such systems have also been deliberately defined in general terms so as not to compromise actual capabilities. Any deviations from actual characteristics have also been at my discretion.
The actual classes and names of South African warships, support vessels and helicopters have been used to add realism to the plot. As the second Class-209 submarine (S102) had not been named at the time of publication, I have given her a ‘temporary’ and hopefully appropriate name.
The names of all personnel used in this book, with notable exceptions, are entirely fictitious. The extent to which actual names of organisations and places have been retained or changed has been entirely at my discretion.
Despite the criticality in terms of the fighting Navy’s roles in protecting sovereign maritime territorial limits and thereby ensuring uninhibited maritime trade, South Africans, indeed most Africans, remain generally indifferent to roles played in this regard. Hopefully, this story will at the very least instil a better recognition and empathy for the protectors of the high seas, if not their begrudging admiration.
There are 28 Colour images included in this book which illustrate the actual ships and hardware that is mentioned in the story.
Just Done Productions - Publishing is a company located in Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. We pride ourselves on producing quality, professional press-ready manuscripts for publication. We offer a publication option that allows the author to publish without spending any of their own capital ... and yet to receive a professional service. Your manuscript can be turned into a book. Contact publish@justdone.co.za for more information.
Just Done Productions - Publishing is proud to announce the release of a new novel by Simon Norval. This is a novel about the South African Navy in a fictional account of a war in the future. It involves all the modern naval acquisitions and the plot can be seen as a projection of the Navy's role in future conflicts in Southern Africa.
Adamastor Rising
Price: R140.00
From the author:
This book has been written at a time when the South African government has through its much vaunted, and often controversial ‘arms package’, acquired for the use of its Navy, new frigates, maritime helicopters and conventional submarines.
The South African Navy itself is currently undergoing a metamorphosis from that of a ‘small ship’ Navy to that of one with a potential of becoming a larger, regional and continental maritime force. On this basis, it provides the capability of ‘out of area’ operations with extensive liaison and collaboration with other African nations and their Navies. Not that of romantic ‘blue water’ stuff, but acting rather as an instrument of the nation’s foreign policy in terms of providing monitoring, peacekeeping and, if necessary, intervention within the context of coastal, littoral and riverine operations.
As the economic powerhouse of the region, and in fact, Africa itself, South Africa also dominates regional and African politics through the catalyst provided by SADC and the fledgling African Parliament. Its responsibility, therefore, extends not only over its own expansive Economic Exclusion Zone (EEZ) of some two million square nautical miles, but also, as Africa’s ‘senior partner’, within the seaward territorial limits of other African maritime nations.
Whereas South Africa remains, after its democratic transformation process, essentially stable and prosperous, Africa itself remains in turmoil, with civil wars, sporadic inter-tribal genocide, coups d’état, civil unrest and insurgency commonplace.
This novel attempts to sketch possible or even likely scenario’s within which the South African Navy could operate. To this end, I have, as far as possible, devised scenarios and events that could be considered credible within the African littoral context.
Although the core of this book is that of ‘naval stuff’, the relationship to the service and its government and other governments are played out through the medium of largely fictitious persons and entirely fictitious situations.
The plot develops from an essentially naval perspective and attempts to demystify a typical regional maritime conflict for the layman. It was therefore inevitable that an abundance of ‘naval jargon’ would have to be used, in keeping with that used by the Navy. Without this, the plot would have been devoid of plausibility and thus meaningless.
The novel similarly attempts to tap into the typical psyche of naval personnel, from the highest echelons of command down to the younger sailors as well as those people whose lives are directly or otherwise affected by the activities and ways of the Navy.
The capabilities and limitations of all naval ships, specifically those of the frigates and submarines, are described in general terms only.The associated analysis of frigate system performance, made throughout the book, are typical attributes associated with, and encountered by, all naval systems and do not specifically reflect on SA Navy system characteristics.
The characteristics and attributes of all combat platforms (in ships and aircraft alike) and their weapons fits, are based entirely on information available in the open literature and to be found in unclassified ‘glossies’. Such systems have also been deliberately defined in general terms so as not to compromise actual capabilities. Any deviations from actual characteristics have also been at my discretion.
The actual classes and names of South African warships, support vessels and helicopters have been used to add realism to the plot. As the second Class-209 submarine (S102) had not been named at the time of publication, I have given her a ‘temporary’ and hopefully appropriate name.
The names of all personnel used in this book, with notable exceptions, are entirely fictitious. The extent to which actual names of organisations and places have been retained or changed has been entirely at my discretion.
Despite the criticality in terms of the fighting Navy’s roles in protecting sovereign maritime territorial limits and thereby ensuring uninhibited maritime trade, South Africans, indeed most Africans, remain generally indifferent to roles played in this regard. Hopefully, this story will at the very least instil a better recognition and empathy for the protectors of the high seas, if not their begrudging admiration.
There are 28 Colour images included in this book which illustrate the actual ships and hardware that is mentioned in the story.
Just Done Productions - Publishing is a company located in Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. We pride ourselves on producing quality, professional press-ready manuscripts for publication. We offer a publication option that allows the author to publish without spending any of their own capital ... and yet to receive a professional service. Your manuscript can be turned into a book. Contact publish@justdone.co.za for more information.
“The Silver Chrysalis” is a modern fable set in the beguiling atmosphere of 21st century Greece. It describes with a gentle and sympathetic touch, the unfolding of a deep and loving
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