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Voices: The Realities of Women

Hello everyone!
I'll be reading a short story I wrote this Friday, 2pm at The Whiteaways Arcade.So if you're free, do come and lend some support! :)
Visit the facebook event here, or head on to the George Town Literary Fest website for more info on the festival!
See you there!*so excites*

The Expatriates book tour - an excerpt, and interview, and a #giveaway

Just a final reminder that there's a book tour happening that's ending today!(Also, stay tuned for a coming giveaway related to The Expatriates! :)

First, an excerpt from The Expatriates, Book One: Song of The Sending by Corinne O’Flynn“Well, it’s not dead.” Charlie let out a nervous laugh.“What should we do with it?” Sam asked.Hollis took off his t-shirt and proceeded to wrap the bird like a burrito. “We need to protect her wings in case she thrashes. She’ll wake soon.”I looked at Hollis, stu...

#nanowrimo 2014: Update 3

So... I'm terribly far behind. I should have broken 30K by now, but I haven't. *sigh* But anyway, random excerpt below for random people. I don't have half as much good stuff that I would like, but the way it's going I'm only at the beginning of the story and I've already reached 27K, so maybe this would actually turn out to be full-ish length novel of maybe 100K instead of dying of lack of story at 50K as it usually does.

That's progress, isn't it?


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When they had finally made their way out o...

#interview with @CorinneOFlynn (and a #giveaway)

So I meet all sorts of people (especially writers) on Twitter, Triberr and the blogosphere - One of them is Corinne O'Flynn who's just published a book!
Since I'm supposed to be writing mine, I'll just leave you with a short interview with her as part of her book tour. (Also, giveaway at the bottom!)
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Tell us about your book.THE EXPATRIATES is the first book in a new YA fantasy series about a teenage boy, Jim Wales, who discovers his family’s been hiding him in a traveling carnival because he...

#nanowrimo 2014: Update 2

An excerpt, as promised.

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“I have decided,” the Princess announced to no one in particular, “that something must be done to prevent this marriage.” She looked over to where the maids were studiously ignoring her. They were heartily sick of this conversation and line of reasoning by now.

“Does any of you have any ideas?”

No one replied. The Princess continued pacing the room.

“There are, after all, many things much more important than marriage. I suppose if I decided on one of them, Father wil...

#bookreview: Nazi Goreng by Marco Ferrarese

Nazi Goreng by Marco Ferrarese
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Nazi Goreng starts off pretty mildly with Asrul, the naive young Malay from Alor Setar, first meeting the neo-Nazi skinhead, Malik, after he gets beaten up by a gang of Indians. In fact, the first part of the book is generally benign and frankly a little slow, as Asrul and Malik move from the backwaters of Kedah to the bigger city of Penang.
Things begin to pick up when Malik gets them involved with the Iranian drug dealer, Mr Porthaksh, th...

#nanowrimo 2014: Update 1

It's been a little quiet here because I've been busy, and November started.

I'm not quite sure I'm ready to post any of my writing for the current novel as yet (I'm quite far behind, and I'm not sure I like what I'm writing yet), but I'll just leave you with my concept/synopsis/blurb thingy then.

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Working title: Absolution

The prophets have long foretold that the time of judgement is coming. The End of Days is near.

As the Heir to the Kingdom, it falls on Adam to take up the role of Sin Eater:...

#bookreview: Megan's Way by Melissa Foster

Megan's Way by Melissa Foster
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

When Megan Taylor's cancer strikes back with a vengeance, she makes a decision to stop taking her medication so that her 14-year-old daughter, Olivia, would not have to watch her health deteriorate over a long period of time. Megan's Way follows her journey to, and after, death, and explores the impact it has on Olivia as well as her group of friends.
I guess people have their own ways of thinking, but I imagine that having a longer span of t...

#bookreview: Paths of Alir by Melissa McPhail

Paths of Alir by Melissa McPhail
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

To write a good summary of Paths of Alir is almost impossible - so many things happen in this book, with so many separate threads aligning and so many new ones spinning off. When I first opened it on my kindle, I was shocked to see a reading time of 15 hours (which managed to adjust itself downwards to maybe about 9) so I just *had* to go and check out how hefty the tome would be in print. It clocks in at 782 pages as compared to Brandon...

#bookreview: The Dagger of Adendigaeth by Melissa McPhail

The Dagger of Adendigaeth by Melissa McPhail
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Following from the events of Cephrael's Hand, Melissa McPhail weaves intricate patterns of intrigue and mystery, hope and despair as time and events in Alorin march inexorably on.

In The Dagger of Adendigaeth ("Dagger"), Prince Ean val Lorian throws in his lot with the traitorous Fifth Vestal, Bjorn van Gelderan, positioning himself as a player in the game of Kings. Trell of the Tides is coming to terms with his past and tryin...