These books can be either novels or true story chronicles.Īll the books mentioned here have sold thousands of copies and some feature on best-selling lists. He further indicates that the other books that he would throw into the diary chron genre – although some did not start out as Facebook or blog posts – are Jackie Phamotse’s best-selling ‘Bare’, Mofenyi Malepe’s ‘283: The bad sex bet’ and Dudu Busani-Dube’s ‘ Hlomu The Wife’ series. “On average, a good Facebook diary chron page has a following of above 20 thousand followers,” says Tiisetso. Mike Maphoto’s Facebook page Diary of a Zulu Girl has over 130 thousand followers. Lesego Maake’s Facebook page Diary of a Side Chick Makhwapheni has over 75 thousand fans. It is commonly the main characters chronicling their misdoings and relationships in the era of social media, blessers, blessees, slay queens/kings, players, and the consumption of alcohol,” describes Tiisetso.ĭiary chron stories usually start out as Facebook or blog posts and quickly amass a following in thousands. They are fast paced, written in a diary like sense, narrate intense sex scenes, and contain shocking twists and turns. “Diary chron stories and books tell chronicled tales of usually a young adult’s bizarre life. They have since been published into successful books. Both these books started out as Facebook posts. They define books such as Lesego Maake’s ‘Diary of a Side Chick Makhwapheni’ and Mike Maphoto’s ‘Diary of a Zulu Girl’ as one of the pioneering titles of diary chron. They say that most of this type of fictional diary-like stories emerged as daily Facebook posts around 20. Two South African publishing entrepreneurs – Setlhodi Paul and Tiisetso Maloma – have coined a new book genre called ‘diary chronicles’ or ‘diary-chron’ in short.

283 by Mofenyi Malepe