If you have been wondering “why Chicago, why Macau?” why not take a look at the original, vintage settings? See inside the excitingly rare1964 book found in a wet market (Chowrasta) in Georgetown, Penang, which inspired the ideas and setting of Heart of Glass. Hope you are “stirred, not shaken.” (HINT) Welcome to everyone on board …
请支持我的书: Heart of Glass “玻璃之心” Chinese New Year Update: 54% funded
请支持我的书。六年前我在马来西亚槟城写了一本英文书，叫”玻璃之心”。 74000字。已经完整了，现在正预售。这是因为我正在与出版商, Unbound, 众筹出书计划。这本书不仅是我使用我的第二语言写的，写的也是关于移民者。这是一部80年代的小说 , 故事发生在美国芝加哥和澳门。主角是一个中国女孩，她是音乐家，一名小罪犯。欢迎您阅读“关于我”，摘录和摘要，并在这里观看预告片 https://unbound.com/books/heart-of-glass 这是您和我共同的成就。您的名字将刊登在这本书的每一版本。对非英国作家写的英语小说/书籍有感兴趣的人 , 欢迎您与他们分享。 请大家支持我，和您一样 , 我也是一个妈妈，一个移民者，一个朋友。筹款额只由10磅起。 艾薇 后记 – 这筹献是毫无风险的。如果所需的资助完全达到，您将会收到您的书。但如果没有完全达到，您将获得全额退款。 再后记 – 筹款活动一个月前开始了，已经达到54％的资金。😬希望您能够帮我实现这本书。
See “Heart of Glass” original manuscript with piano soundtrack
Today you can take a look inside the original handwritten manuscript of Heart of Glass, my MUSIC CRIME NOIR NOVEL set in Chicago and Macau in the Reagan era of 1980s. Piano soundtrack is by yours truly of course: Aquellos Ojos Verdes. Watch out for it. I really love this song. See how the novel …
Crowdfunding Week 5 – Keep Calm and Carrie Fisher
OK guys so for 24 hours I had to get away from London, the internet, social media, work, family, self marketing and of course this crowdfunding (CF) lark. Luckily my friend Yvonne Lyon invited me up (not up, sideways, sorry) for her birthday celebrations. Since this process started I found myself impaired in every way …
BOOK LAUNCH: Ewan Lawrie’s “Gibbous House” Thursday 12 January 2017 1830H
I was very lucky to have been given an invitation to attend Ewan Lawrie’s book launch in Islington. This would be the first time I am meeting an Unbound author and in fact the first time I would be meeting an author that I had got to know first through social media. Times have indeed …
Heart of Glass the Novel – Silent Movie news update!
Hello! #Vintage alert! Watch this homemade SILENT MOVIE update on Week 3 of project Heart of Glass the Novel with a piano soundtrack by yours truly. But please! Don’t be too critical, it’s my acting debut! I am experimenting with the silent movie concept as I love the Artist and I love the music of …
My first NaNoWriMo
This year is the first time I am participating in National Novel Writing Month. I am doing this partly as a challenge and partly as a way of getting another book written under pressure. Today is Day 21 out of 30 and I am only on around 18,000 words. Why I am doing this thing: …
CBBC interview with Children’s Author Phil Earle
Phil Earle is a very prolific and engaging writer whose ideas, thoughts and humour filled the space that was the Children’s Library at Southfields Library. Listening to him speak was very inspiring. Of course, his Liverpool accent helps. It’s like listening to a Beatles interview. Here he explains where ideas come from. Essentially, they come from …
Literary devices on crystal meth: The new “visceral” writing style of Chuck Palahniuk “Make Something Up” Han Kang “The Vegetarian”
Recently I became absorbed with Han Kang’s “The Vegetarian” and Chuck Palahniuk’s “Make Something Up”. I hadn’t read anything like these for a long time. They have some similarities and although I definitely preferred the latter so I will have to spill my guts out and start with . “Make Something Up” by Chuck Palahniuk I heard …
My sweet little monkey on BBC1 ‘Horizon’ TV Documentary – Crash – 9 January 1998
Imagine my excitement to discover that my original illustrations are still around – on BBC, YouTube! In my sentimental journeys into the past, enjoy the discovery of analog becoming digital, from TV to internet streaming. In those days, the drawings were prepared and then they were printed and couriered to BBC in White City in a hard envelope. There …