Dear Readers, The What The Woods Mean manuscript and the cover is nearly ready for publishing but owing to certain circumstances that I’d only become fully aware of lately, I need to postpone the publication. It will still be published, but sometime in 2026. Sorry about this, but it’s definitely necessary for this time. The … Continue reading A(nother) Postponement and Tentative Publication Plans for 2026
Here’s an excerpt from the Prologue of Watermyth: She inhaled those tales amidst the tumult of bus interchanges, the sound of 1990s grunge-rock and Malay hair metal booming from tiny cassette shops flanking the central bus station, where exhaust fumes met a medley of aromas from smoky woks and great cauldrons of livid chettinad curries … Continue reading Cantata Chronicles 10/10/2025
This is a post I’ve been meaning to write since my first Wiscon experience (online) a few months ago. Wiscon has always been one of my dream cons and I’d given up on ever attending it but they made it online this year, which was really an opportunity I could not miss even though I … Continue reading Lyceum Notes: Between the Numinous and the Real
Warning: Contains spoilers. You might want to read the story first! I used to be very nervous about doing these publication notes but I also felt a necessity to do them because otherwise, with every publication there would be wild speculations about the provenance of the plot. I still laugh sometimes about a reader who … Continue reading Publication Notes: “Vengeance As Sweet As My Love” in Translunar Travelers Lounge
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