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Rails to Trails: Steps on the Tracks of Time

Rails to Trails: Steps on the Tracks of Time

I’m in a liminal space, writing-wise, right now. My editor, the wonderful Krystyna Green, is retiring at the end of this year. Krystyna has been my editor ever since she acquired my books for Constable/ Little, Brown/ Hachette…

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Kulture, Kaya and Kindred Spirits

Kulture, Kaya and Kindred Spirits

I’ve been feasting mind, soul and (unfortunately?) body over the last two weeks. There’s been so much going on here… or maybe I only notice between book drafts! First of all, though, I got to go back to our neighbourhood kopitiam…

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… Because I Can’t Pantster a Cardigan!

… Because I Can’t Pantster a Cardigan!

I’ve pretty much finished the cardigan I was knitting as I worked on the last book. I like to have a craft project running alongside the ‘big’ writing projects because there are times, in the middle of these six to eight month writing projects…

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Save The Fish!

Save The Fish!

I have guests in my office—my guppies are in a temporary tank here because their larger (approx 120 L) fish tank by our bed sprang a leak in the middle of the night. That’s a lot of water, but fortunately it’s a slow leak and I should be able to get all my fishy charges out in time…

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Writing My Parasites

Writing My Parasites

I’ve finally submitted the draft, so now I’m in the waiting-for-edits limbo and all my writing parasites are surfacing. You’d think I’d jump into all the things I’d been putting off—all the books I wanted to read, the exhibitions I wanted to go over, the shows I wanted to watch–but Plot Twist…

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Trying to Learn like AI Learns

Trying to Learn like AI Learns

I’ve always found it difficult learning things that intimidate me–and it doesn’t help that most things I don’t understand do intimidate me. And one of the things I find…

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More Than a 1% Solution

More Than a 1% Solution

Singapore is a very small island–you can drive across it, coast to coast at its widest point, in under an hour. But still, when you’re underground. especially when you’ve just entered one of the tunnel expressways…

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Cover Ups & Breakthroughs–

Cover Ups & Breakthroughs–

Breakthroughs of the brick and mortar sort, I mean–it’s renovation time here! Sorry in advance, but this is going to be a dusty, grimy, messy and unfinished post…

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Foods For Thought

Foods For Thought

It’s been a tough couple of weeks here. The meniscus in my left knee got torn in a fall and some very effective antibiotics wiped out my gut bacteria meaning lots of loo visits… which the knee wasn’t very happy about…

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