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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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Thoughts on Neil Gaiman

Shi Min Xie January 17, 2025 0Comments

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How Playing a Pirate Queen Helped Me Reclaim My Confidence as a Writer

Shi Min Xie November 17, 2024 0Comments

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The Epigram Books First Look Sales Conference

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Commentary The Grumps

There Are Lots Of Fake Blogs Making Money By Spamming Keywords. Here’s How They Do It

Three weeks ago, at work, one of my superiors from the neighbouring company shared his secrets to creating a successful website. S/he’d looked over my shoulder, and wondered why the…

Shi Min Xie July 8, 2015
Personal The Grumps Thoughts

My Editor & I Scrutinise Women’s Magazines

Yesterday, my editor and I went to a certain printing company to do a press check. When we were sitting in the room, we started reading and making fun of…

Shi Min Xie July 4, 2015
Book Reviews

The One Safe Place By Tania Unsworth — A Review

One of the things I don’t like about some books is how they don’t have a synopsis on the cover — my borrowed copy of The One Safe Place didn’t,…

Shi Min Xie June 29, 2015
Writing Tutorials

How To Write Better & Have Fun At The Same Time

One of the fairly common questions I get in real life from my friends (who are not English majors) is, “How to write better?” When I was asked this question,…

Shi Min Xie June 27, 2015
Book Reviews

The Red Pyramid — A Review

While I was at the library, I came across the first book of The Red Pyramid series — lucky me. It’s actually quite hard to grab ahold of anything that…

Shi Min Xie June 26, 2015
Personal

Power Rangers

One at work, my editor and I had this conversation. Me: My boyfriend says I should get an English name since no one can pronounce my Chinese name for shit.…

Shi Min Xie June 20, 2015
Personal

No Job? What Next?

Yesterday, my boss told me that I may not have a job by the end of July. The magazine I work for isn’t making money, we’re not generating online traffic…

Shi Min Xie June 18, 2015
Book Reviews

Firefight by Brandon Sanderson — A Review

The problem with reviewing sequels is the one has to allude to the first book — in this case, it’s Steelheart. One of my favourite fantasy authors imagines a world…

Shi Min Xie June 17, 2015
Game Reviews

I Can’t Stop Playing Smite Because I Get To Kick Butt As The Chinese Dragon King Of The East Sea

Okay, so if you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll realise that the posts have dried up… again. Sorry. Well, I don’t have an excuse apart from work, and…

Shi Min Xie June 8, 2015
Book Reviews

The Card Turner — A Book Review

I’m familiar with Sachar’s work — I did read and love Holes, after all, so I picked up this book so see what else he’d been up to. It turns…

Shi Min Xie June 6, 2015

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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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