Borneo Post 22 July 2010

This came out into today's Borneo Post, finally some publicity where I live -- not since last August! That's the great thing about the Popular-The Star Reader's Choice Awards. It gives each book an added boost, a second chance! Thanks for your vote and for spreading the word about Tropical Affairs and even picking up a copy at 20% off at Popular too, if not for you, then as a present for someone else! Or even Lovers and Strangers Revisited, last year's winner for fiction! All the best!

*Update, the 20^th anniversary of Lovers and Strangers Revisited
 

Here are links to some of my author-to-author interviews of first novelists:

Ivy Ngeow author of Cry of the Flying Rhino, winner of the 2016 Proverse Prize.

Golda Mowe author of Iban Dream and Iban Journey.

Preeta Samarasan author of Evening is the Whole Day. 

Chuah Guat Eng,  author of Echoes of Silence and Days of Change. 

Plus:

Five part Maugham and Me series

Beheaded on Road to Nationhood: Sarawak Reclaimed—Part I 

The Sun - June 23

I just completed answering interview questions for the August issue of The Expat for Tropical Affairs, when this review came out today in The Sun – how appropriate! It’s like that sometimes; you go through a dry spell and for months nothing about your book (ok, I was recently on TV!), then in less than one week, I find out that Tropical Affairs has been nominated for the 2010 The Popular-The Star Reader’s Choice Awards, I get interview questions for The Expat (it’ll also be in Senses of Malaysia Sept/Oct), and now this review! Soon The Star will be doing a write up about the nominated books; hopefully Tropical Affairs will get highlighted, and I hope some more interviews and book reviews will follow.

Of course my son Zaini, who "stars" in this book and this review, too, may feel otherwise, especially if his friends start reading about him as a toddler! This time around, let’s avoid that long dry spell again. Been there, done that. But the real question in my mind is—what book am I publishing next? I have several options, so let’s hop to it, or they’re really will be a long dry spell. As a writer, it’s always best to be looking ahead and never back…

Here are links to some of my author-to-author interviews of first novelists:

Ivy Ngeow author of Cry of the Flying Rhino, winner of the 2016 Proverse Prize.

Golda Mowe author of Iban Dream and Iban Journey.

Preeta Samarasan author of Evening is the Whole Day. 

Chuah Guat Eng,  author of Echoes of Silence and Days of Change. 

Plus:

Five part Maugham and Me series

Beheaded on Road to Nationhood: Sarawak Reclaimed—Part I