The book presentation of Marking Pens and Fireflies which held at Terra Kulture studio, started with the mother of the author, Mrs Patience Emili, leading the entire guest with a word or two of prayer.

Thanks to Sanmi Olaniyan, a friend of the author who introduced the author as "stubborn and persistent", a good introduction and proper account of the author and her pursuit of the work was given.

The book reading and signing commenced with the author who read excerpts from her book who managed to effortlessly swing her guest from their static position in the hall to an emotional world that had them all worried as to why Amarachi Okoro, the heroine in the book, committed a murder.

Amarachi Okoro is a young girl who battles between her dreams and her reality. Apparently, she wrote a letter to her friend who she trusts on this criminal act, a secret that couldn't be shared with no one else. This friend happens to be the author herself.

The book reading which made a good number of the guest particularly interested in the book and left them a little bit confused had some questions for Emili, who did justice to most of their questions. Some of the questions penned down to Emili included the reality of Amarachi Okoro

"Is Amarachi Okoro a fictional character or an actual person that you met?"

Emili, of course, confirmed that "Amara is as real as an imaginary friend."

Another guest also asked Emili, "You studied Electrical Engineering at the university, how are you able to place yourself as a psychologist in this book? "

Here's what Emili had to say to that, "I am a wide reader. One time I lost something and I wanted it back so desperately. I began to experience strange feeling that I couldn't tell anybody about it. I went online to research more about this and I found out I wasn't the only one out there experiencing this.

"What I and Amara share in common is what a great percentage of people have experienced, Grief. I don't need textbooks to understand this."

Intrigued by the writer's ability to come up with such a beautiful write-up, a guest was forced to ask her, "This is your first book. During your course of preparing the manuscript, I am sure there were times when you felt discouraged and drained of inspiration. How were you able to rise above these drags".

"It is a gift to have someone who constantly prays for you always. In my case, I have my mother. Secondly, in the beginning, one might think 'writers block' isn't normal but it is. Gradually I got familiar with this feelings. I accepted that there will be high times and low hopeless times, I work with it. In my low times, I linger, read a book, watch tv, eat, sleep, visit friends, just live life. In my highs, I write," Emili said.

The Guest Speaker, Mrs Furo-Dagogo had a lot to say about 'The Girl Child in Society' seeing that Emili's book, "Marking pens and fireflies" reflects on this subject. Dagogo urged the importance of education not only in the female but male gender as well.

Emili at this point gave a shout out to her illustrator, Awele Emili, who is also her sister and a host of other people who actively and passively helped in her book project.

Marking pens and fireflies is indeed a book for all.