Author Ivy Ngeow
The spotlight is on Yvonne, whom I met at a writing retreat in Las Cabanes, Temple-sur-Lot in France on September 11th 2001. Yes, you read that right. We heard the news that something had happened in New York city when we were at Gatwick. There was no social media so you could only catch the …
The spotlight is on David E Huntley, who was originally a Londoner but is now a Texan, via South Africa. He is a semi-retired businessman and widower who was married to his late French-born wife Sophie for 62 years and lives in Dallas Texas. David has 4 children and 7 grandchildren. David E Huntley was …
The spotlight is on Tania Tay, whom I met around 28 to 30 years ago when we worked in Singapore. She was a friend of my BFF, Karen Ho. There was such a buzz in the 1990s. Everyone, who was anyone or someone we knew, was in design or publishing. We had such an exciting …
Nicole Swengley, debut author of The Portrait Girl, out now on Breakthrough Books, shares her experience of finding her extraordinary portrait girl: I’d spent ages searching for her. She had to look young, mysterious and alluring. Not a modern face but Victorian. Preferably with flaming hair and small enough to fit within an oval frame …
The spotlight is on fellow Londoner, Amelia Kyazze, whom I met years ago, when we both shared the same publisher. We’ve also met at the London Book Fair last year. Amelia is an author and photographer who worked for humanitarian organisations around the world before settling in London. She has recently published The Café on …
The spotlight is on David or D. H. Schleicher, whom I met on Twitter/X. He asked if anyone read or wrote literary fiction or psychological thrillers and I replied that they are right up my street. Apart from those genres, we also share a love for movies and TV. I first read his short stories …
There is only one thing good about Twitter/X. And that is, each day, you will never know what you discover. I guarantee it will be something new. I first learned of American artist Jason Novak’s talent when one day (Nov 22, 2022 to be exact), I saw a tweet from him asking for a prose …
The spotlight is on fellow polymath and Malaysian author, the remarkable Ong Chin Huat. He is a Number One Bestselling Penguin Random House author and Harmony Heights was one of the Best Books of 2024 according to FT Weekend. Chin Huat, who has 38.7K Instagram followers, shares some tidbits about himself and his writing. IN: …
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas Lulu Allison is a Brighton-based artist and writer. Before she started writing she had already been an established artist. Twice the Speed of Dark is told from the viewpoint of Caitlin, killed by violent boyfriend Ryan. Ten years on, her mother …