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 24% funded! Week One crowdfunding with Unbound
Where to start? What nails? I have no more nails to bite. Come to think of it, no cuticles either. Where am I going to get my daily intake of protein from? I’m going to be eating a low carb humble pie from now to eternity. I can stomach this. There is no room …
“Heart of Glass” a novel by Ivy Ngeow
Heart of Glass “A pacy, stylish 1980s literary thriller set in Chicago and Macau” Support this book here. Watch the trailer (pitch video) here: My name is Ivy Ngeow and I am an award-winning writer. I am raising funds for Heart of Glass, a finished product, a completed novel of 74,000 words, with Unbound, an imprint …
Pitching your Ideas in 3 minutes
Pitching is presenting your ideas. What people and I myself don’t realise is how tough my business life as a designer is and has been. I pitch for ten jobs to get 2. Five jobs to get 1. Clients today make you bleed. You are competing against younger, cheaper and more innovative pitchers. So how do …
How I came to be Crowdfunding with Unbound
I was on around Day 27 of NaNoWriMo and doing quite well I thought, writing my third novel, with my word count of c 24,000 when suddenly I was hit with news that I was being offered a book deal by Unbound, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The caveat was that it will …
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: …
The Sadomasochistic Art of Writing: you know what I’m talking about yes you do
#havingkittens #printed my #first #novel #today for the #firsttime #281 #pages #doublespaced #blackandwhite #writing #amwriting #fiction #author #thewritinglife #writer #ivyngeow #submissions #endurance #training #longhaul #longtermproject #powerofwriting #powerofreading #terrified #didnot #print the #secondnovel #ok A photo posted by Satsuma World (@ivyngeow) on May 19, 2016 at 3:24am PDT When the thing is virtual, digital, electronic, unreal: …
HUNGRY? A New Year treat: “Hungry in Ipoh” London Launch and how I did it
Brixton, London, Wed 10 February 2016, 7pm. HUNGRY – PART I – The Launch itself Finally the day had come. The planning took about four weeks, six if you include thinking time, and I always include thinking time because without it, the rest won’t follow anyway. Please can I not have to do a selfie …