An award-winning journalist, novelist and short-story writer, Olukorede Yishau, is releasing his collection of short stories, “Vaults of Secrets”, on Thursday, October 1, 2020.
Given the attention the critical acclaim garnered by his first book, “The Name of Our Father”, critics are of the view that the view that the collection will receive a lot of rave reveiew.
Speaking about the book, the author said, “If the feedbacks from the people who have read the advance copies of “Vaults of Secrets” are anything to go by, then I do not expect it to be less accepted. If anything, I am expecting it to do better. There is a story for everyone in the collection. My friend, Nnamdi Oguike, the author of “Do Not Say It Is Not Your Country”, feels that the stories will appeal to everyone who has ever done something they want to keep to themselves.
“He also feels that even if you are a saint, you will also find something to enjoy in the collection. Two other authors, Nze Sylva Ifedigbo and Ever Obi, who have also read the advance copy, have shared their views. Secrets are what we all cannot do without. Even people who say their lives are open books still have stuff they do not want to share with the public. Some people can even kill to have their secrets kept.
“I think the theme of secret will help endear the book to readers. Secret can be used as enormous power over. Both the rich and the poor harbour secrets that can be used against them, but the rich are the ones who have something to protect and as such will go to any extent to have their secrets permanently locked away in vaults buried.”
On the process of penning the collection, Yishau said: “The stories in the collection came to be as a result of what happened to others, which I was privileged to hear about and use as materials for these emotional stories. It took me about two months to do the first draft of the stories that eventually become ‘Vaults of Secrets’, but over the next one and a half years, especially when the editing process was activated, some stories had to be reworked to make them better.”
