Scriptorium – through wildwood, through water

August 2, 2025August 3, 2025

Lyceum Notes: Thoughts on World-building, Suspension of Disbelief and Subjectivity

Suspension of disbelief, subjectivity and world-building have always been coiled together in a single kernel for me. It evokes for me the Kelantanese Mak Yong where the narrator/performer gets the audience to suspend disbelief by just placing one foot on the stage and saying, “Now I am stepping into Kayangan”. That was his world-building, his … Continue reading Lyceum Notes: Thoughts on World-building, Suspension of Disbelief and Subjectivity

March 30, 2025March 30, 2025

Updated Pricing For Watermyth

Salam and Eid Mubarak to all! I thought that this would be a great time to bring down the pricing for Watermyth. I’m not changing the list price of USD9.99 for the ebook (I spent too many years slogging at it and it’s a pretty thick book!) but I am making a super-long promo period … Continue reading Updated Pricing For Watermyth

March 26, 2025March 26, 2025

Cozy? Domestic? Romantasy? On Labels and the Gatekeeping of Subgenres

I’ve been on a rewatch/watch of Elementary (I only watched the first two seasons before this but now I’m watching everything) lately and contemplating on whether or not one could consider the show cozy. Sure, there are murders nearly every week but the show is relatively light on the gore and the high octane. The … Continue reading Cozy? Domestic? Romantasy? On Labels and the Gatekeeping of Subgenres

February 13, 2025February 15, 2025

The First and the Fifteenth Watermaidens Day

2011 was the second year of my attempting to turn different novellas into a single braided novel. I’d changed the title from The Mermaid Tower to Watermaidens in 2010 (sometime between then and the first time I sent the book out to an agent, it became Watermyth). Nowhere in the years since I had first … Continue reading The First and the Fifteenth Watermaidens Day

January 15, 2025January 20, 2025

Watermyth’s 1st Book Birthday Anniversary 💯

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 💯