Nairobi Author Emotional After Good Samaritan Offers To Pay Printing Costs For Her Book

• Since the release of her first book, Till Death Do Us Part, author Diana Mosoba has been struggling to print copies for sale
• When she got a quote from the printer, it was a figure that she says nearly made her collapse
• She couldn't hold back tears when a fan she has never met offered to pay her printing costs, terming it a miracle

Diana Mosoba, a budding Nairobi author struggling to print her first book en masse, couldn't hold back tears after receiving a generous offer from a friend.

According to the Till Death Do Us Part author, the kindhearted individual agreed to pay almost half of the printing costs for the book.

Walking miracle

She shared the exciting news on social media, saying she was a "walking miracle, God's favour and grace".

Diana disclosed that she had been printing books in small numbers because she did not have the financial muscle yet and was out of books when she went to see his printer.

The printer advised her to print 500 books if she wanted to gain value, but she says the math gave her "instant migraines" as printing books is not cheap.

"I nearly fainted whencomment I got a quote of over KSh 100,000," she told TUKO.co.ke when reached for comment.

Friend offered to pay printing costs

As fate would have it, one of her friends called and asked him why she was not marketing her books aggressively as she did in December last year.

"I told him that I had run out of books and couldn't raise enough money to print new copies," she continued.

When the man learned the reason behind her disappearance, he offered to pay part of the total printing cost, which the author said was almost half.

Diana disclosed that she did not know how to clear the balance but was confident that something would come up in time.

"In the meantime, I am requesting my followers to make preorders for the book to help me raise funds for mass production," she pleaded.

Diana's walk of shame

In an earlier interview with TUKO.co.ke, Diana Mosoba recently recounted a comical experience from the past when she found herself in a brief marriage with a Luhya college student named Wafula.

The mother of one disclosed that she agreed to move into her lover's dingy house in Kangemi, which had the perennial smell of paraffin.

Her marital bliss, however, quickly turned into a farce when Wafula's parents unexpectedly returned one morning, revealing that the house she had been living in wasn't his.

"That was the longest walk of shame of my life. I cried all the way to college," she recalled.