the writer! she speaks!

i'm here, i'm here, just been doing a lot of thinking lately. so, now we've gotten that out of the way...

tomorrow i'm doing my first school gig ever. i am doing a lunch-time talk at a girls school in the city, and i'm looking forward to it. i'm going to read them some old blog posts to give a little insight into what it was like to be a newly-published author. hopefully they enjoy that. i'm also going to read them my first published work, a piece of short fiction that was published the year before my novel came out, and has since become my most-published piece of work. it's also the one closest to my heart, a piece called 'destiny', about a child (me) wanting to grow up to be wonder woman. i think that might strike a few chords in the audience, no matter how little or many girls turn up to hear me. after all, it is their lunch break... though the weather may work in my favour for once.

will update you on how the talk went in a few days! see ya.

latest publications

hello there! it's been a while, but i have some writing news - i currently have two new (non-fiction!) pieces on the shelves, both housed comfortably within anthologies whose themes couldn't be further apart, though interestingly both have a maternal bent...

firstly, a piece called 'my many grandmothers' in an anthology called grandma magic, full of stories by and about grandmothers. mine is about a few of the many grandmothers and grandmother-figures i have had in my life.

second, a shorter piece called 'cringe carousel chronicles' in your mother would be proud, an anthology chock full of colourful, touching and funny 'true tales of mayhem and misadventure'. all proceeds from the sales of this anthology go to the mirabel foundation, so buy yourself a copy and a few for your friends! there are some real rip-snorters in here which i am sure you'd all enjoy :)

download me!

well, not me per se, but audio of a couple of recent appearances. first, here's a link to the audio of the melbourne event for the growing up asian in australia anthology (which turned out to be a good fun evening); and here is a link to ABC radio national's the book show, on which myself and alice pung were guests this morning. enjoy!