Merry Christmas! Merry reading!
Best wishes for 2016!
The blog is closed from today, Monday 21 December, until Tuesday 12 January, when we'll be back with details of the Asian Books Blog Book of the Lunar Year Award, for the Year of the Sheep / Goat / Deer.
Monday 21 December 2015
Sunday 20 December 2015
Saturday 19 December 2015
Tales of Two Cities: Hong Kong and Singapore
Tales of Two Cities: An Anthology
of Short Stories by the Hong Kong Writers Circle, and the Singapore Writers
Group presents four faces of each city: the changing city; the historic city;
the mystical city; the capricious city.
There are twenty three stories in the collection, which has been co-edited by
Alice Clark-Platts, and S. Micky Lin, from the Singapore Writers Group, and
Edmund Price and Harmony Sin, from the Hong Kong Writers Circle. Here, Alice Clark-Platts gives a glimpse of how the collaboration
worked.
Thursday 17 December 2015
Indie spotlight: Christmas marketing opportunities
Indie spotlight is our monthly column on
self-publishing. This month our regular columnist, Siobhan Daiko, who is herself
an indie author, explains how Christmas presents many marketing opportunities, to those with a book to sell.
Just quickly
I wrote an account of viewing snow in Singapore, for the UK Telegraph. If you're interested, click here.
Sunday 13 December 2015
Thursday 10 December 2015
Lion City Lit: Swag
Asian
Books Blog is based in Singapore. Lion City Lit explores what’s going on in the
City-State, lit-wise. Here Jo Furniss introduces Swag, the new online literary magazine
she's launching. Its events calendar, which brings all relevant listings together in one convenient place, is already live, and is packed with ideas. From
January, the quarterly journal will feature author interviews and new writing.
So:
over to Jo…
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