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Why I Write Ghost Stories in a City That (Seemingly) Doesn’t Believe in Ghosts

Shi Min Xie August 27, 2025 0Comments

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Notes from the Other Side of Publication

Shi Min Xie August 20, 2025 0Comments

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Perfection is Overrated

Shi Min Xie July 6, 2025 0Comments

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Behind-The-Scenes: Su Lynn and Cai Rong’s Relationship

Shi Min Xie May 15, 2025 0Comments

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The Book is Out! Finally! Plus Behind-The-Scenes Drafts

Shi Min Xie May 6, 2025 0Comments

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Hollywood has no original ideas

As the holidays are coming up, I’ve seen many movie trailers that are re-tellings of stories that we know and love. The Beauty and the Beast trailer came out yesterday,…

Shi Min Xie November 23, 2016
Thoughts

I Don’t Want to Write as a Girl! and Other Gender Related Problems at Work

said all the boys I teach. I teach young children to write picture compositions, and sometimes, the image shows that the main character is a girl. I always ask them…

Shi Min Xie September 20, 2016
Commentary Movie Trailers / Sneak Peeks

Kubo and the Two Strings is such a beautiful movie!

I recently had the pleasure of watching Kubo and the Two Strings in a quiet movie theatre, and boy, was I blown away. When I watched the trailer (it wasn’t…

Shi Min Xie September 19, 2016
Dragonhearted

Why is everyone in Dragonhearted Chinese?

My dear, lovely editor, Daphne, who is always pushing me to write better, asked me this question: “Why is everyone in Dragonhearted Chinese?” I almost wanted to answer I don’t…

Shi Min Xie June 20, 2016
Personal

I have a book. Everything’s different, but still the same.

I had sushi (yay!) with a friend and he asked me how the book launches went. The best I could muster up was, “Ok lor.” “Really ah? Just okay lor?”…

Shi Min Xie June 19, 2016
Rants

Singapore is too loud!

and it’s driving me crazy. Everywhere I go, the volume is turned up to the max. In the trains (or subway, as my US friends refer to it) it’s an…

Shi Min Xie June 18, 2016
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Finding Dory Review

I watched Finding Nemo when it first came out, and thought it was pretty okay. I didn’t particularly like it, but I didn’t particularly hate it. But oh boy. Finding…

Shi Min Xie June 17, 2016
Rants

Clothes that I will never understand: The Romper

I have no idea why something as hideous as the romper was created. It’s like a fickle-minded aunt who makes you wonder if all sense has left the world, because…

Shi Min Xie June 10, 2016
Commentary The Grumps

Thoughts On That Viral Article About Why Students Aren’t Taking Lit

One of my writer friends and a former student shared this article as to why Singaporean students aren’t taking Literature as an O level subject. You know, this one. There…

Shi Min Xie June 2, 2016
Commentary Dragonhearted

So I Had This Great Idea To Make A Book Trailer

and I didn’t realise what I was getting into. I was enamoured of all the book trailers of the Young Adult books that I’d seen on YouTube, and I wanted…

Shi Min Xie May 26, 2016

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Dragonhearted is an award-winning children's book available at most bookstores. Views expressed here are my own.

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