How Playing a Pirate Queen Helped Me Reclaim My Confidence as a Writer
Shi Min Xie The year was 2019. The pandemic was much more than the world could handle, and my editor had just screamed at me for writing a shitty sequel. I’d had an…
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Please don’t pirate my book
When Dragonhearted came out, I was pretty sure that no one would want to pirate this book because it wasn’t from an international publisher or anything like that. But a…
Inadvertently ignorant things people say to writers
I thought for a long while about doing this entry, even though my blog is supposed to be a force for good and also mostly for me to review books…
How I Won The Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award
This is what I did after I won the Hedwig Children’s Book Award: I had a good night’s sleep. I posted about my win on social media and received a…
People in real life who resemble characters in my book
It’s quite narcissistic to think that the people I meet resemble the characters in the creative projects I’m working on, but I can’t help it. Usually, I design characters but…
Holding Dragonhearted for the first time
Holding your first book in your hands for the first time is a strange and wondrous feeling. I remember rushing to the pop up store at the National Library that…
How Much of Xin Long’s Chinese New Year Mirrors My Own?
One very common question I get is whether Xin Long is based on me. The short answer is no. We’re very different people. However, since Dragonhearted is based on Chinese…
Xin Long Advertises For Dragonhearted
My name is Xin Long and this is a blog entry for an author who is too lazy to come up with one. She’s now yelling at me because she…
If Dragonhearted Were A Movie…
It would be animated, for sure. Yes, yes, I know. The book is being printed as I write this, but the narcissist in me couldn’t help but think about what…
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…