Assalamu alaikum everyone!

Veiled has finally ended! Alhamdullilah.

I know I rushed updating the last chapter but...oh well! I'm sure y'all enjoyed reading updates up and down. I hope you really did enjoy it because my next book won't have that kind of update schedule.

~Veiled is a combination of so many books that I'm too lazy to write individually.

Originally, Veiled is supposed to be a romance novel but guy...my brain isn't for romance this year. If you read all the books I published this year, you can tell.

However, the main story plot, the original plot I planned...I don't know if you remember this boy that was in chapter 2, the one that was accused of ruining the society but then it turns out he's just a kid suffering too. Now that boy is supposed to be the main male character. He was supposed to be adopted by one nice politician like that and in the future, when Rabia leaves her village, she'll meet him again when she's much older. I had no idea what would happen in between that, but I knew that's my main idea.

The second plot, well, I don't know if it's much of a plot but all I knew was that I wanted to write a book about a character that was wrongfully accused and sent to prison in a foreign country. Plus, I wanted the character to be black so the character would face racism in jail. That was the only idea I had, I didn't know what would happen in between or after either.

That goes for the others bits of plots in the book that I knew would take me long to write if they would all be individual books.

So, as per the lazy writer I am, I just merged the plots I can to make it one big books with lots of plot twists. Personally. I believe I've tried. Wait, scratch that, I've done a good job, I'm sure of that.

~The beginning of the book wasn't originally the one I wrote.

I started this book about a year ago, and I've written the first chapter since then. I didn't exactly write the full chapter, but I've started it. However, before I could finish, I had to leave for hostel and obviously I couldn't take my laptop with me there so I couldn't continue where I stopped.

The hostel I attended back then was only for a short period, but I used the time there to start a couple of books out of boredom.

I remember starting this book during night prep. I was supposed to be reading but my lazy self didn't want that. So I started scribbling this book down amidst my Geography note to pass time.

Anty Maryama's character was inspired by a friend of mine who I wanted to tease by making her a bad person in my book and Rabia was named after my roommate and the one person who disturbed me so much back then to sit and continue writing this book.

When I came back home, I already had about four or was it five chapters of this book? I am not sure sha, but I remember naming the book 'Behind a smile' back then, and then changed it to 'The Journey of a Thousand Miles' seeing as the second name was the original name of the book.

I didn't see the use of continuing the original one I started back home because that book and this one were completely different (the beginning that is) So I left that one and continued this instead.

~I ditched this book for Dear Kulsum.

I started this book way before I had the idea for Dear Kulsum and Stars Align too to be honest, but I didn't exactly have it in me to write this so I kept ditching this book, till February this year when aishatu_xx motivated me to continue writing it. So, I sat myself down and continued writing this. It took ten months since I started and completed it but I'd like to believe it's worth it.

~A part of this book was inspired by a song.

Wait, I think all my books this year are inspired by songs, lmao. Anways, so I was watching the music video of Medicine by Conor Maynard and Anth which basically shows how two kids grew up in a broken family and how it affected them. And I told myself that I wanted to write a book that portrays something like that. A book that in a way shows how broken families affects a child's upbringing. Hence, the backstory of the real Rahma (Zarah), and Tahir.

~Tahir was originally meant to be guilty of all the crimes he's accused of.

That's basically the whole story behind Tahir, that he's guilty of everything. But, along the way, I fell in love with his character and I realized that though he's bad, he's just human. Truth be told, we're all bad at a point in our lives, but that doesn't mean we're completely bad either yeah?

We're good, and we're bad. That's part of being human.

Hence, why I decided to make him innocent.

~AMEERAH WAS ORGINALLY THE REAL RAHMA.

I think everyone whom I sent the first chapters of Veiled before I published it read that Ameerah is Rahma. I wrote it in chapter ten clearly.

But, one day while thinking about the plot (I think I was writing chapter thirty something around the time) when I realized that making Ameerah Rahma is too obvious. I thought why not change it? It'll be much more entertaining.

So, I went back and removed all the parts I mentioned that Ameerah is Rahma and left it like that.

That was the reason why all of you didn't for once doubt that Ameerah is Rahma until she denied it. It's because even I, as the author didn't know.

And if Ameerah isn't Rahma, the only person she could be is Zarah. Y'all know what happened afterwards.

~There's a reason as to why I didn't introduce Rahma's husband, Fyserl, at the beginning of the book but rather at the end.

I just realized that in most of the books I've read, the girl meets the guy at her worse and then she'd overcome everything with his help and then they'd live happily ever after in Neverland on a white pony!

Don't mind what I just said at the ending sha. I'm hungry so I'm just typing this anyhow.

But seriously, that plot is good but I wanted something different. I wanted a character that overcame a lot before she met her partner because I believe that a woman can achieve so much without anyone.

Actually, any person, whether male or female can achieve so much without the other. We all have that potential. So, I wanted to portray that because I always write what I believe in.

Now that they've achieved the biggest problems in their lives, they can achieve the rest with their husbands and live happily ever until they die. Yes, it's not happily ever after lol.

~Miya is the name of my village🤣

Literally where the "Mia" in my name comes from. Figured it might be a good idea to include my hometown (Bauchi) and my village in my book🤣🤷 and it turned out better than I thought it would.

~This is my favorite book amongst all the ones I've written so far.

I know I know, I say that all the time but I'm serious this time around. Anyone that knows me knows that the love I have for this book is a lot. All the time, all I speak of is 'veiled this' 'veiled that'. I'm sure certain people close to me eventually grew tired of hearing the book's name.

But seriously, I extremely love this book because I put so much effort into this book and it is all worth it.

~Do I plan on taking this book down?

For now, I don't and I highly doubt I will any time soon so you can read it any time you want. It'll be here in shaa Allah.

~Do I have another book to publish after this book this year?

Yes, I have one...or two. I'm not sure really. For now, I'll just publish my book KAMILAH, which I've been really fond of recently (It'll have plot twist, drama and the romance I've been trying to avoid this year all in it. Basically, I'm bringing everything there with extra spice).

And then, maybe publish WLZ later. (I know I published it but I took it down for a couple of personal reasons)

~AND THAT'S A WRAP FOR VEILED.

Thank you all for sticking with me through the ups and down of this book—through the cliffhangers and the sad moments that made some of you tear up (I don't see what's there to cry about but still...) Thank you.

I hope you love Veiled as much as I did.

Stay safe.

Love, Jannah Mia❤️.

25/07/21.