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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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How I knew I wanted to be a writer

I knew I wanted to become a writer at a very young age of six. I was in Primary One, and my school had one of those big picture books…

Shi Min Xie April 6, 2016
Book Reviews Personal

Book Review – The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

It is Allan Karlsson’s 100th birthday and he doesn’t want to have a party at the Old Folks’ Home. Instead of going down to meet everyone, he climbs out of…

Shi Min Xie April 5, 2016
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10 Fun Facts About Dragonhearted’s Supporting Character, Four Eyes

Four Eyes, by nature, is sad. It’s part of his DNA. That isn’t to say he can’t be happy–while Shu Ping is happy by default, Four Eyes is pessimistic by…

Shi Min Xie March 31, 2016
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10 Fun Facts About Dragonhearted’s Supporting Character, Shu Ping

Shu Ping was given this name because I liked it. There is no depth to naming this character. I did, however, name her after a classmate in Junior College (JC)…

Shi Min Xie March 30, 2016
Dragonhearted Personal

10 Fun Facts About Dragonhearted’s Main Character, Xin Long

There are so many things that inspired me to create this character that I don’t know where to begin, but I’ll do up a list of 10 things you need…

Shi Min Xie March 29, 2016
Game Reviews

Don’t Starve is actually a pretty existential game

I may be late to the party, but recently, I got around to playing “Don’t Starve” but the indie developer Klei Entertainment. I love this game, and I’m so addicted…

Shi Min Xie March 28, 2016
Dragonhearted Querying

In which I write about submitting Dragonhearted to an agent

Before I knew Dragonhearted was getting published by Scholastic Asia for sure, I started sending my books to local publishers and overseas agents. (I mean, just because I was shortlisted…

Shi Min Xie March 27, 2016
Dragonhearted Personal

How I Create Characters

There are a few ways that I use to create characters. Some of them overlap, of course, and none of them are mutually exclusive. To each his or her own.…

Shi Min Xie March 24, 2016
Dragonhearted Personal

5 Things That Inspire Me To Write

There are people asking me how Dragonhearted came about, and it’s because I am surrounded with inspiration. Nearly everything and anything inspires me to write, but here’s a list of…

Shi Min Xie March 23, 2016
Dragonhearted Personal

Dragonhearted wasn’t meant to be a children’s book…

but I’m glad it is. When I set out to write Dragonhearted, I didn’t think that it would be a children’s book. In fact, I didn’t think it would be…

Shi Min Xie March 14, 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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