Review of Wolf At The Door: Here
Gumroad
Phoenix With A Purpose.
Of Oysters, Pearls and Magic.
The Path of Kindness.
Another tale, tied to the Myriads universe: Looking For Trouble.
And... Chinese New Year is this weekend!
Gumroad
Phoenix With A Purpose.
Of Oysters, Pearls and Magic.
The Path of Kindness.
Another tale, tied to the Myriads universe: Looking For Trouble.
And... Chinese New Year is this weekend!
Updatery and Basics Of Flight
May. 21st, 2012 10:52 amThis week: I might start work, my approval pending. We have a Council For Private Education, a government agency that oversees all the private institutions.
This week: SPORE-Con and AFCC. I am giving AFCC a miss this year as the topics are the same. I don't find it encouraging and indeed, a good space for YA/MG authors to grow. I am looking forward to SPORE-Con, a gaming convention. We now have a popular culture/SFF track.
This week: Soldiering on.
Writery: Basics Of Flight: YA steampunk novella - released as ebook and 99cents only.
This week: SPORE-Con and AFCC. I am giving AFCC a miss this year as the topics are the same. I don't find it encouraging and indeed, a good space for YA/MG authors to grow. I am looking forward to SPORE-Con, a gaming convention. We now have a popular culture/SFF track.
This week: Soldiering on.
Writery: Basics Of Flight: YA steampunk novella - released as ebook and 99cents only.
I might have found a job. Sending my paperwork and qualifications tomorrow. On one hand, I am elated. Yet, on the other, I am not sure how my inlaws and my kids are going to handle this new development.
Rider and Speaker in a single book - only for a short period. :)
Rider and Speaker in a single book - only for a short period. :)
So I did get the second interview...
Jan. 27th, 2012 11:06 amYep, I did. So, I am going for it next week. Cross any appendage for me, please. This time, there will be a panel of four interviewers. And guess when. Imbolc. 1st of February!
You bet I am going to light candles the night before.
Next week will also be known as Saber-Holding-Fort-Alone, as D will be flying off to Nuremberg for a toy convention.
~*~
The Rider offer is still on. It has passed the 600th download (though not sure if people will actually read it). Over two years, 600 downloads. Not too bad.
That brings me to ask questions:
1. Do people actually like FREE downloads?
2. Will people actually READ free novellas?
3. What does it say about people in general?
You bet I am going to light candles the night before.
Next week will also be known as Saber-Holding-Fort-Alone, as D will be flying off to Nuremberg for a toy convention.
~*~
The Rider offer is still on. It has passed the 600th download (though not sure if people will actually read it). Over two years, 600 downloads. Not too bad.
That brings me to ask questions:
1. Do people actually like FREE downloads?
2. Will people actually READ free novellas?
3. What does it say about people in general?
Two days into the Chinese New Year.
Jan. 24th, 2012 10:03 pmSecond day of the Chinese New Year is now officially over. Visited my side of the family today and caught up with my favorite cousin who came back from Scotland. Ate a lot. Talked a lot. The girls enjoyed themselves tremendously.
Came back to consume awesome chicken and abalone soup. More eating of popiah.
Now, winding down for the night.
I put up pictures on my writery blog: Enter The Water Dragon.
Likewise, the novella offer - I have extended it for an extended period. If you like Asian YA (young adult) SFF with a futuristic setting and flying alien pterosaurs, get it at Smashwords.
You noticed that I am posting at DW. LJ is on the fritz again.
Came back to consume awesome chicken and abalone soup. More eating of popiah.
Now, winding down for the night.
I put up pictures on my writery blog: Enter The Water Dragon.
Likewise, the novella offer - I have extended it for an extended period. If you like Asian YA (young adult) SFF with a futuristic setting and flying alien pterosaurs, get it at Smashwords.
You noticed that I am posting at DW. LJ is on the fritz again.
A bit of updatia
Aug. 23rd, 2011 08:35 amLast Friday, I met up with ![[profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fantasyecho. We had such a wonderful time! (Cake muds - YUM! Especially with whiskey and tequila). And the fish spa - we have a garra ruffa fish off. ;) I am going to write something about the fantastic fish.
I missfantasyecho already...
Saturday saw me attending STGCC, our version of the Comic Con.
I am finally getting into my edits...
fantasyecho. We had such a wonderful time! (Cake muds - YUM! Especially with whiskey and tequila). And the fish spa - we have a garra ruffa fish off. ;) I am going to write something about the fantastic fish.I miss
fantasyecho already... Saturday saw me attending STGCC, our version of the Comic Con.
I am finally getting into my edits...
Friday update of the Saber
Aug. 12th, 2011 09:21 amFinally some time to post an update.
I am still overwhelmed with work. The marking keeps on coming in. But it's part of teaching - and I can cope somewhat.
My garden is growing well, but someone tore out my big pot of Mollucan spinach (Duan Dewa). I suspect it was the cleaner - he ripped out the large stalks and stuffed them back in. I am still angry, because I grew this pot from the mother plant. I think I might write a nice letter to the town council.
***
I think I will revive my flagging spirituality. I haven't done any ritual or drumming for a long time.
Writing is now reduced to night time and when I have time.
I am still overwhelmed with work. The marking keeps on coming in. But it's part of teaching - and I can cope somewhat.
My garden is growing well, but someone tore out my big pot of Mollucan spinach (Duan Dewa). I suspect it was the cleaner - he ripped out the large stalks and stuffed them back in. I am still angry, because I grew this pot from the mother plant. I think I might write a nice letter to the town council.
***
I think I will revive my flagging spirituality. I haven't done any ritual or drumming for a long time.
Writing is now reduced to night time and when I have time.
State of the Saber: real life is brutal
May. 19th, 2011 08:19 amReal life, at the moment, is brutal. Dot is down with a viral infection. Her fever dingdongs from high to low. So she is cranky, unhappy and clingy. When the medications work, she is back to her usual cheerful self. But when the fever returns, she is lethargic and refuses to play.
I managed to write my synopsis for book two of the Jan Xu series: Obsidian Moon, Obsidian Eye is in the works. Now I am sleepy, sniffly and wishing that I have a cosy bed to sleep in. LOL.
I have made some updates on A Wolf's Tale. I should blog more, especially when it comes to my books. Likewise, if you like my books, do help me signal boost, tell people about them!
And I have started gardening again. ;)
I managed to write my synopsis for book two of the Jan Xu series: Obsidian Moon, Obsidian Eye is in the works. Now I am sleepy, sniffly and wishing that I have a cosy bed to sleep in. LOL.
I have made some updates on A Wolf's Tale. I should blog more, especially when it comes to my books. Likewise, if you like my books, do help me signal boost, tell people about them!
And I have started gardening again. ;)
One story has been accepted by M-Brane SF.
My school may purchase my books and place them in the library. If the response is good, there may be a book signing (and sale). *checks if Mercury has gone direct*
Work-wise, I am bracing myself for another load of marking (second essay test for the kiddies). I leafed through my first class and winced.
Cub and Dot are beautiful girls. I look at them - they are growing up fast. They give me hugs so readily now... what happens when they become teens? Where did the time go?
My school may purchase my books and place them in the library. If the response is good, there may be a book signing (and sale). *checks if Mercury has gone direct*
Work-wise, I am bracing myself for another load of marking (second essay test for the kiddies). I leafed through my first class and winced.
Cub and Dot are beautiful girls. I look at them - they are growing up fast. They give me hugs so readily now... what happens when they become teens? Where did the time go?
Diana Wynne Jones has passed.
Earlier, it was Elizabeth Taylor.
Both great women in their own way.
***
A week more before my book release. I have to admit, it's all so nerve-wracking. I feel.. I don't know what/how I feel. Only a gnawing fear/terror/joy/anxiety.
Great. Now I am tearing up. I feel so alone. I look at other authors and see their vocal fans. I just want to hide under the covers and fade into nothing. Maybe because I am a nothing in a big angry sea of somethings and Big Things. My YA fiction is such a failure. I am not sure about my Urban Fantasy...
There. Working out my anxiety...
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So, how's everybody?
Earlier, it was Elizabeth Taylor.
Both great women in their own way.
***
A week more before my book release. I have to admit, it's all so nerve-wracking. I feel.. I don't know what/how I feel. Only a gnawing fear/terror/joy/anxiety.
Great. Now I am tearing up. I feel so alone. I look at other authors and see their vocal fans. I just want to hide under the covers and fade into nothing. Maybe because I am a nothing in a big angry sea of somethings and Big Things. My YA fiction is such a failure. I am not sure about my Urban Fantasy...
There. Working out my anxiety...
***
So, how's everybody?
The marking continues. I really need to complete this STACK before the next round comes in by next week.
Meanwhile, read this. It is brilliant. But it is also very depressing. For people who are not involved in the publishing (be it trad/self), there is some discussion regarding the 0.99 pricing of ebooks. Some are for it. Some hate it like the plague and associated virii all rolled into one. I, myself, am...ambivalent, since I straddle both traditional and self publishing. I do agree though that writers need to eat too. We are not air plants subsisting on air. [Then again, I have a day job which does pay the bills... ]
Anyway, support your favorite writers/authors. Donate. Make fan-art. Signal-boost. Give feedback. Buy swag stuff. Tell them that they are doing something good. Writing isn't easy, guys. It is creative effort. It is hard work. We don't come up with stories, tales and worlds just like that. Perhaps, it looks like we create worlds with a snap of our fingers... but the real work, folks, is pretty much internal.
***
I am still in the process of - well - processing my Sungei Buloh pictures. Going to photography... is a joyful experience. Like writing, like gardening, photography is creative. I call 'writing via pictures'. It is art. It is life.
My garden is growing once more. The Malabar spinach vines are sprouting! My duan dewa is still going strong.
Meanwhile, read this. It is brilliant. But it is also very depressing. For people who are not involved in the publishing (be it trad/self), there is some discussion regarding the 0.99 pricing of ebooks. Some are for it. Some hate it like the plague and associated virii all rolled into one. I, myself, am...ambivalent, since I straddle both traditional and self publishing. I do agree though that writers need to eat too. We are not air plants subsisting on air. [Then again, I have a day job which does pay the bills... ]
Anyway, support your favorite writers/authors. Donate. Make fan-art. Signal-boost. Give feedback. Buy swag stuff. Tell them that they are doing something good. Writing isn't easy, guys. It is creative effort. It is hard work. We don't come up with stories, tales and worlds just like that. Perhaps, it looks like we create worlds with a snap of our fingers... but the real work, folks, is pretty much internal.
***
I am still in the process of - well - processing my Sungei Buloh pictures. Going to photography... is a joyful experience. Like writing, like gardening, photography is creative. I call 'writing via pictures'. It is art. It is life.
My garden is growing once more. The Malabar spinach vines are sprouting! My duan dewa is still going strong.
