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I'm running a #giveaway for #cyberpunkmalaysia

So if you've been following my facebook page and my blog and my twitter and my website and all the social media-ly stuff I do, you can't have missed the fact that Fixi Novo recently published a book with my short story in it. =)

The launch was last week as part of the Cooler Lumpur Fest, and because I am scatterbrained like that, I'm finally getting round to announcing my giveaway today. LOL.

Anyway, first things first.




WHERE TO FIND THE BOOK AH?

Online:
Kakibuku
E-sentral
Smashwords
Google Play
Amazo...

#bookreview: Grace by Morris Gleitzman

Grace by Morris Gleitzman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Mookie once asked me if there were books or movies that made me cry.
I have to admit to tearing up once or twice for this one.

Written in a somewhat awkward childish parody of the Bible, Grace tells her story of how her father got expelled from the "church" mainly because of her. "Church" because this is obviously a very small, secret, cult, which believes in very weird stuff. Why was he expelled? Because he asked too many questions, and obvious...

#MusicMonday: Shekinah Glory

This song was in the camp list, but not in the night's set. But I'd dropped one song because it wasn't familiar enough, and then we discovered that we didn't have the chords for another, although Daniel was very sure he had printed it. There were a bunch of other good songs to use, but I'd been thinking of this one since the morning, for some odd reason, so in it went.

And God showed up.

"Shekinah is derived from the Hebrew verb שכן. The Semitic root means literally to settl...

#bookreview: Lost in Putrajaya

Lost in Putrajaya by Zurairi A R
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I generally liked this. Some of the stories were stronger than others (it really slumped in the middle), but I guess that's how it goes.

Drifting Azaleas (Paul Gnanaselvam) is an amusing account of Saras' application for Malaysian citizenship and her struggling attempt to speak in Malay. I thought this was a rather promising start to the anthology.
Listen to Your Grandmother (Jeannette Goon) is a story of an abused wife. The only connectio...

Book Launch: Cyberpunk: Malaysia

If you don't already know, my short story "Codes" will be published in an anthology called "Cyberpunk: Malaysia".

The book will be launched in Kuala Lumpur this Saturday! See you there!


Also, I'm working on a giveaway! Details coming soon. :)

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Hidden Fire Blog Tour and $25 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway

Hidden Fire Blog Tour and $25 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway


Finding your own unique strength and courage is a major theme of The Watchers. The characters in this series are as diverse as they come: different nationalities, male, female, dwarf, human, dragon, pixie, noble, peasant orphan, young, aged. Yet, no matter the situation, whether tragic or triumphant, they find ways to grow and develop into something stronger. 
The main character, Auriella (Aura), is born and lives in a society an...

#bookreview: Memory House by @BetteLeeCrosby

Memory House by Bette Lee Crosby
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Annie Cross is running away from her bad memories of her ex-boyfriend, Michael, and looking for a new direction in life. Ophelia Browne is searching for someone to inherit her memories and her house. In her signature style, Crosby weaves these two very separate lives into a single story, with each chapter prefaced by the thoughts/journal of the main protagonists.

Crosby retains her charming Southern voice in Memory House and it was a pleas...

#musicmonday: Only One by Harvest Bashta

So come back, come backI'll take you to the startCome back, come backI'll take you to your first love

“And in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more. And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, a...

Trust

But trust is a difficult thing.
It's one thing to say "I will follow" and another to do it.

And when God says you will not lack, it is one thing to accept that at heart level, and another to stop worrying needless about how that lack of lacking will come about. It's one thing to set out your plans and to work out a budget, and to put into place the pieces that need to be placed, and it's another to keep worrying about whether it will work.

Yet it's not the lack of finances that fills my hea...

#Fridayflash: Madeira Red

Max was good at twiddling his thumbs. He had nothing to do that sweltering afternoon after lunch, so he sat in Nando's Gurney Plaza twiddling them, watching the world pass him by. A hundred frantic shoppers later, he'd drifted off into a bit of a stupor, so when he looked up and saw a tall, long-haired guy approaching his table, he fairly jumped out of his skin. He eyed his Madeira Red suspiciously, wondering if there had been alcohol in it. They wouldn't. They'd lose their halal license...