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On The Dirt Road to Dystopia with Nadeem Aslam and Kim Young Ha
What is Dystopia? Does the Road to Dystopia need to be made of dirt? Are our modern and comfortable societies already on the road to Dystopia? These were the weighty questions thrown at a panel I was...
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Pitching Heart Bones to movie producers Tuesday night!
These are the bones of the story. Please let them speak to you as I pitch … What do you think? Will material artefacts add to or detract from my pitch? Love to have your tips;)Filed under: POSTS...
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People are blogging about Heart Bones
Clara Freeman and Molly Grabowski do really interesting reviews of other books too. Please do go over there for a look at what they said about Heart Bones and all their other reviews - Thank you Clara...
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Talking about Heart Bones on National Critics Choice
Here’s National Critics Choice’s video of the book chat about As the Heart Bones Break at Select BooksFiled under: POSTS Tagged: ... a citizen of my world, As the Heart Bones Break, Vietnam, Writers...
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Who are you to write about it?
I’m defending my right to write about the “other” on Caroline Allen’s Art of Story Writing blog. http://artofstorytelling.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/who-are-you-to-write-about-it/ Caroline is a writing...
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Immensely grateful to be a daughter of Singapore
It may be unfashionable but I’m shouting it out anyway – It’s good being a daughter of Singapore. It’s something to be immensely grateful for. I had flown from the Little Red Dot to the North Eastern...
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Homelessness? Or a kind of freedom?
We have been in Vietnam for a week now, the first few days in the new family home in the Delta. The new home, housing the family altar with my in-laws’ ashes, is a modern grey and white villa near the...
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Talking about Heart Bones on Lion City Lit
It’s been a hectic month – Work, participating in the Iowa Writers Workshop’s MOOC, travelling, trying to take in at least a little bit of the Singapore Writers’ Festival. One of the nicest things...
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SO GRATEFUL – THIS REVIEWER REALLY GOT IT!
Sending my writing out into the world has always been heart opening and humbling, in equal measure. With Heart Bones, it was no different. When it went into the world, I steeled myself for criticism...
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40 years on, where are the young ones in VN headed?
On 30th April 1975 the young men of America came home from war. Forty years on, in the Little Saigon’s of America, the end of that war is still commemorated as a day of mourning. And in that place...
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