Dear Readers, Happy New Year! Watermyth‘s first publication anniversary was reached on 7th January 2025 after a rather challenging year of learning how to market and promote the book. These were all skillsets which I possessed to a certain limited degree. I had to promote my short stories, poems and Truancy Magazine, after all. However, … Continue reading Watermyth’s 1st Book Birthday Anniversary 💯
Hello, Here’s some information on how to purchase Watermyth. Some of the vendors are on the Books2Read portal but not all of them are listed. A memory-wiped mermaid-siren rehearsing for her storyteller exams tries to piece together events from the past, present and future while around her wars between merkingdoms are fomenting. 🧜♀️ 🧜♂️ 🧜 … Continue reading Places to Purchase Watermyth (ebook)
I’ve been a plotter, I’ve been a pantser. But at the end of the day I realise I am just a plantser and would like to reject binaries. All stories are different. The way you write each one is different. Sometimes the planning comes first. Sometimes the impulse comes first, like an earworm or an … Continue reading Lyceum Notes: On Being a Plantser
I get why Watermyth is a hard sell. It’s a postcolonial portal fantasy with DEI; a Muslim mermaid; more Malaysians and Muslims (from different diasporas) than you can shake a stick at; a mish-mash of superdiverse cultures on a mythical island that has a diaspora composition that is majority Global South, apart from the autochthonous … Continue reading Syncretic Storytelling; or Why Watermyth is a Hard Sell
So I had this thought percolating in my head all day and felt the urge to put it down here. When I first read The Fellowship of the Ring I was 13 years old and I fell into the tale of the Bagginses and The War of the Ring. Frodo was 33 and Bilbo was … Continue reading Writing Fantasy for the Not-So-Young Adult