Roundup: fanfic, shrimps, hipste Kelate and more
Podcasts On Thursday I went to Broadcasting House (!) to take part in the first episode of Late Night Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4, which was on women in fandom. It was super fun — like a convention...
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My publishing journey: Love and resource
I know I said I was winding up my Publishing Journey posts for now, but I had another thought: about love and resource, and the debts we owe. It’s quite a big thought, so bear with me. A few years ago...
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Rambling about writing at Kinokuniya KL: a report
As I mentioned in my previous post about my event at Kinokuniya KL last Saturday, Kino is the bookshop of my teenage years, because it was so huge and had what was at the time an unmatchable selection...
View ArticleWriting My Culture for Fun and Profit
Question Here’s how the question goes, more or less: Do you think you would be as successful if you didn’t write about Asian/Malaysian characters/myths/folklore/beliefs/spirits? I don’t blame people...
View ArticleNever enough for both
I was thinking this morning about what it must be like to be my husband: a white English person who has never had his right to be in the country of his birth questioned. Within living memory, his...
View ArticleBeing an itemised list of disagreements
This is a post inspired by Likhain‘s Letter to Apex Editors Re: The Intersectional SFF Roundtable.1 CONTENTS Introduction: Why I am making this post The facts as I saw them: An account of various...
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Recipe: Fake posh seafood spaghetti
I usually have a pretty good idea of how tasty something I’m making will turn out to be, but this took me aback with how well it turned out. It was totally beyond expectations and also pretends to be...
View ArticleCakap Angin, a newsletter
In my last email to new release mailing list subscribers, I asked people to email me if they’d be interested in a chattier newsletter — like a blog post, but sent direct to their inbox. (I only send...
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