Author | Officially funny | Owned by Std Schnauzers Fela & Lola | WAHALA soon to be a major BBC series | THIS MOTHERLESS LAND out July | Rep'd
@AriellaFeiner
We're delighted to reveal the stunning cover for
@NikkiOMay
's brand new novel This Motherless Land 🦜
This vibrant re-imagining of Mansfield Park publishes this July 🦜🧡
To pre-order or request a proof click here👉
Grief is an absolute bitch.
The anger came as a surprise.
Today I scattered some ashes and feel strangely calm.
Five months on, letting my little brother go is still fucking hard.
🦜GIVEAWAY🦜
To celebrate 4 weeks till publication of
#ThisMotherlessLand
I’m giving away a fancy pink influencer box PACKED with goodies - signed proof, head tie, 🦜 pin, marmalade & and a secret🇳🇬extra!
To enter:
🦜 Follow (if you're not already)
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Slightly (VERY) obsessed with my new 🇺🇸 ebook cover (which will be my 🇺🇸 paperback cover on 27 Dec).
The women of
#WAHALA
brought to life by genius illustrator Katie Smith. ❤️❤️❤️
.
@doubledaybooks
bags a "contemporary friendship novel with a crime twist" debut in a two-book deal, with
@NikkiOMay
's Wahala! Promising "charm and humour combined with its shocking killer twist", find out more here:
It's here! It's here!! This Motherless Land by the amazing
@NikkiOMay
has landed (along with Billy the Parrot 🦜). Everyone needs to read this beautiful book 😍📚
🦜GIVEAWAY LAST CALL 🦜
#ThisMotherlessLand
fancy pink influencer box just got fancier!
New: Gorgeous hardback (thanks
@DoubledayUK
) and hot from Lagos Kuli Kuli peanut biscuits
To enter:
🦜 Follow (if you're not already)
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Winner announced Friday 5 July 🦜
Happy paperback publication day
@NikkiOMay
🎉📚💚 I’ll never forget my first reading of
#Wahala
- gripped, enthralled and high on expectation - totally fulfilled in these delicious pages. A powerful portrait of friendship peaks and what happens when it doesn’t all go right. 💚📚
6 wks ago, was celebrating Russian Wahala deal.
Today, decided to donate 100% of the income to a Ukrainian charity.
Was in two minds about posting... am I virtue signalling? Me Me Me'ing?
My Russian pubs may be wonderful, this is
no reflection on them.
Bit this feels right.
20 years since we got hitched at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas.
28 years since that first snog in the back of a black cab.
I guess he’s a keeper.
I am OBSESSED with the UK paperback
#Wahala
cover.
Three friends. Three ‘perfect’ lives. Here comes trouble.
⚠️ ear-worm
Out Feb 2023.
Thank you
@doubleday
dream team
It’s
#WahalaBook
pub day.
I can’t keep up with my notifications.
My head is in a spin.
I can’t open the fizz this early!
What would Ronke do?
Make Jollof rice of course!
Amazing day meeting the dream team at
@DoubledayUK
to talk
#Wahala
paperback and toast my HOT new cover 🔥 with cocktails - just like Ronke, Simi and Boo would.
RIP Matthew Perry.
My brother was gripped by the same disease.
He died almost exactly a year ago.
He was just fifty five.
Addiction is a bitch.
RIP Deji, we miss you terribly.
On train to London (with brolly) to meet my Glam Team and of all the surreal things that have happened to me since writing
#Wahala
, this is possibly the surrealist. 💃🏽
Thank you!
I’m giddy with happiness to be a
@Waterstones
2022 must-read pick. 😃
I can’t believe
#WahalaBook
is out in ten days, it’s taken a lifetime to get here.
2021 has undoubtedly been an incredible year for fiction, and with new releases from Hanya Yanagihara, Janice Hallett, Richard Osman and Marian Keyes, 2022 is looking like it could be even better. Here are the fiction releases we're getting excited about:
OBSESSED with my Czech Republic
#wahala
cover 💖
Thanks to my brilliant publisher
@hostbrno
and my wonderful rights agent
@GeorginaSimmo
And yes, from now on, I only answer to Nikki Mayová 🤩
Thank you
@HelenLederer
and the
@CWIPprize
team. I'm floating home on a cloud (well, on South Western Rail) with my gorgeous Sue Townsend New Voice award on the tabletop!
@hemayormaynot
didn't take many pictures so these will have to do.
A very wise author told me to celebrate all the small wins.
So tomorrow I will be fizzing.
A reveal 👀 at 10
And then lunch with two wonderful women - my American editor and my agent. Get me!
OMG - I was live on
@BBCWomansHour
😮
I'm planning lunch with my new best friend
@itsanitarani
My broadband decided to die at 9am so I had to hot-foot next door. (Thanks Rachel).
Now to walk the dogs. And to breathe.
#WahalaBook
My first
@womensprize
Live 🔥
My first event for
#This
Motherless Land 🦜
And I've had the best time ever.
There is nothing better than talking about books to people who love books. ❤️
‘I think it’s possible to belong to two places but also to belong nowhere.’ -
@NikkiOMay
Fascinating hearing from
@DoubledayUK
authors on their books and inspirations.
The Diverse Book Awards 2023 Longlist - Adult. Sponsored by Peters.
See the full longlist (Link in bio)
Congratulations to everyone! Please do support these fantastic books.
#TheDBAwards
#diversebooks
Perfect day.
Sun’s out and
#ThisMotherlessLand
UK proofs have landed.
I’m probably not meant to share before a reveal but when you love your cover this much, rules go out the window.
The African Grey is Billy and I can’t wait for him to fly. 🦜🧡💚
Okay, I know I said I’d got up peak narcissism, but turns out I have further to go…
My
@Waterstones
special edition is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Apart from Ryan Gosling.
A spiky, sarky, shady, smart, sinister take on white privilege. Reading
#YellowFace
was almost enough to put me off book Twitter for ever. Almost. But not quite 🤪
I cringed, I sighed, I smh.
I loved it.
How mad is this!
My seven Instagram followers will have to survive without me tomorrow as I’ll be taking over (THE) Paula Hawkins’ Insta feed 🤩
I’ll be posting about writing, reading, dogs, food, Afro hair and all things
#WahalaBook
@alisonbarrow
@BookeditorJane
@liv_maidment
Stop the press!
#WahalaBook
reviewed in the
@nytimes
💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
“May’s breezy prose is well suited for these moments of casual intimacy, unfolding over drinks, at the hairdresser’s or at the kitchen table, where all the best gossip takes place.”
“Hotly anticipated novel, WAHALA, by Nikki May is unreleased but already set to be one of the most talked about books of 2022. It’s being adapted as a BBC drama we can’t wait to dive into, adapted by
@TheresaIkoko
, BAFTA-nominated for standout hit Rocks.”
Take a look at the January 2022 Fiction Previews, where
@aliceokbooks
compiles the best of books to come, with
@YanagiharaHanya
's "deeply moving" To Paradise picking up her Book of the Month!
Read more here:
'I’m mixed race and middle class. I wanted to read a book with people like me in it.'
@itsanitarani
chats to
@NikkiOMay
, the author of Wahala - one of the most anticipated books of 2022:
Mind Blown!
#Wahala
best of 2022
"What makes this slow-burn story of friendship and vengeance refreshing and original is the exhilarating ease with which it portrays a London steeped in the colours and sounds of Lagos..."
@DoubledayUK
@BookeditorJane
Another big box arrived today, US copies of
#WahalaBook
, they are ridiculously pretty. I’m almost starting to believe I’m am author.
Thank you
@customhousebks
Book 2 US cover is in and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it.
When it comes to covers, I am the cat that got all the cream.
(In all other things I am the owner of dogs who love rolling in 🦊 💩)
Illustrated by the brilliant
@marinaesmeraldo
#HereComesWahala
in its paperback proof box and OMG it’s sexy.
No Wahala No Drama Soap - tick
Joloff rice ✅
Nio Cocktail ✅
Chicken stew recipe ✅
Wahala Spotify playlist 🎶 ✅
AND Wahala the paperback ✅
My cup runneth over with Wahala! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Thank you
@thatvickypalmer
26 years since the first snog.
18 years since we said “I do” in Las Vegas.
@hemayormaynot
still drives me crazy. I still can’t help myself.
Which calls for a picante de casa.
US proofs are in and are so gorgeous the sun came out, the alliums started to bloom and the husband turned into Ryan Gosling.
#ThisMotherlessLand
out October in the US, July in the UK.
Preorder and I’ll send sunshine your way.
It is a fantastic, intriguing, suspenseful story of friendship, rivalry secrecy and revenge, think Big Little Lies meets Girlfriends meets Peckham! -
@TheresaIkoko
We are so excited to be working with the brilliant
@NikkiOMay
and
@TheresaIkoko
on this amazing thriller!🎬💫
Joy at seeing
#Wahala
in Luxor, Prague’s biggest bookshop, beside
@MMLitAgency
’s Katherine Mayová and near
@NitaProse
. Spotted
@BonnieGarmus
too 💃🏽 🇨🇿❤️💃🏽
(We did do some actual sightseeing too, honest 😜)
Happy Czech Rep publication day to ME 🇨🇿❤️
Thank you
@hostbrno
for my stunning cover
And
@GeorginaSimmo
for making it happen.
Nikki Mayová from now on,