A Meeting with Kyle Chandler and an Award Nomination

Kyle Chandler and Me Hey, everyone. I had a great weekend last week and this week looks set to be an equally great one. Last week I attended the Asian Festival of Children's Content where my books There's Soup on My Fly! and Blow A Kiss were up for the Hedwig Anuar Award which carried a $10,000 cash prize which was to be split between the author and illustrator.


Well,  they didn't announce the shortlist until the awards night and I was pleasantly surprised that There's Soup on My Fly was one of the eight books that were shortlisted for the award. Well you know I didn't win because if I had won, this post would have started very differently. As you know I was also a finalist for the Crystal Kite Award so this is shaping up to be a pretty great year. Would have been better if I won the award though, hahah. No, seriously, it would have.


Anway I found out that JJ Abrams and the cast of Super 8 are in town to promote their movie and I was lucky enough to meet Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights, Early Edition, Homefront) who stars in the movie along with the likes of Elle Fanning (Dakota's kid sis) and Joel Courtney, who plays his son in the movie.


Kyle was really great and I signed two of my books for his kid. He then asked me to pose for a pic with him using his camera. What a thrill for me. He's a very friendly guy.  Well, that's about it for now. And before I forget head on down to the bookstore to get Adeline Foo's latest book Whoopie Lee, Almost Famous and Shermay Loh's Archibald and the Blue-Blood Conspiracy. They're fantastic authors. Oh and you might like to get my books too if you haven't already. Ta for now.