Category: The Literary

The usual info!

Date: 21st March 09

Location: Geek Terminal (as usual)

Time: 2pm – 4.30pm (though we tend to leave later than that. The place closes at 6pm though)

Agenda: No specific agenda YET but editing and other things, yes!

So! None of us went to the Young Writer’s seminar and went to HSWG instead (I wonder if anyone blogged about the seminar though!). In any case, bonus points for us having Priya from Jacaranda literary agency to have a little talk with us.

Basic info for those especially in SG. You can send your three chapters plus a synopsis of your novel to them via email. Submissions of manuscripts and it being read are for free just so you know. Literary agencies do all the work for books (well except writing it, they’ll help you get edited/published/promo/etc) and this is one agency you can submit to here.

You can check their website or send your FICTION manuscript for perusal to Priya Doraswamy at priya.doraswamy(at)jacaranda-press.com if anything, you can still check their website and email there. Mostly, they do work in India/China/etc so they’re rather quite “new” in Singapore.

MEANWHILE…

27th Feb to 1st March at the Marina Square the Central Atrium from 10am till 10pm.

Pretty interesting! You can check out more info here on each day’s programme. I have… school but it ends at 6pm. I want to know more on the games though. Ugh, ugh. Their talk is at 6pm-7pm so I doubt I can get to listen in time. NONETHELESS, it doesn’t mean I can’t go check out their booths if so!

Well, this whole thread is via Rozen.

Check out how or what the symbols aka proofreading marks mean when editing your novel. Or rather, when your editor write symbols like those for you to change stuff along with other infos.

Date: 21st Feb 09

Location: Geek Terminal (as usual)

Time: 2pm – 4.30pm (though we tend to leave later than that. The place closes at 6pm though)

Try their calamari rings, it’s pretty good even if I don’t eat calamari, the rest do! I tend to stick to my lovely fusion tea drinks or chocolate.

Our agenda?

• Editing our Nanowrimo novels of 08, random literary talk and stuff. Don’t forget to bring your stuff to edit this time in digital format or whatever if you’re not doing it in printed form.
• Plottings of SWF 09.
• Merriment of a lot of chocolate drinks… At least for me.
• Anyone who’s curious on writing stuff or how to just do DO it.
• PLUS bonus appearance from some literary agents!

For people who haven’t been to GT before, they’ve got internets and electrical plugs everywhere sooooo, feel free to bring laptops and stuff like that.

Location: Borders Wheelock Place
Date & Time: 14th Feb 2009, 4pm
Guest-of-honour: Mr R. Ramachandran, Exec Director – National Book Development Council of Singapore

Currently it’s sold exclusively at Borders (Wheelock) until the launch on 14th Feb aka Valentines Day. How very cute. It’ll be available in  major bookstores at $19.90 after the launch though  according to the email I got.

This is the second book of Romance done by Renaissance from the winners of their romance competition.

Unfortunately, you won’t see me there at all because… I HAVE CLASS THAT DAY. Sadness, oh well! In any case, go ahead and support the event if you’re free and all.

Now I’m doing version 2.1 in which I fix some details of my story and stuff… MEANWHILE I should want this book! Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Just imagine Pride and Prejudice… WITH ZOMBIES. Clearly it would be a very interesting book to read indeed. Only released in April though so there’s quite a bit of time to wait for it, heh.

Ps. Nooo, this isn’t for the chic lit competition. This is a different story altogether that I wrote last year for Nanowrimo.

OMG, FINALLY, my friend’s book no longer on “pre-order” status. I’d been waiting for her book : Orlando Ghosts: Rouse Road and Other Central Florida Haunts . Yeah, I know, it’s non-fiction or well it’s kinda historical myths and legends and stuff too. In any case, I was waiting so I can buy my books together to save on the shipping bits. What other else am I getting on Amazon?

Obviously things I can’t find here… Baah.

Like ohh…

PASSION’S BLOOD by Cherif Fortin and Lynn Sanders!!!!! Okay, it’s actually an ART BOOK. But not any art book.

It is a ROMANCE TRASHY ART BOOK!!!! Bet you guys didn’t know there’s such things as illustrated romance books… Plus their artworks’ gorgeous.

And lastly… OH WHAT THE FREAKING HECK?

Cryptic Tonic’s out of print?! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

Gee, thanks Amazon. All my saving up for time to get a bunch of books together is all for naught. Guuuh. Well, I suppose I could wait if it’ll be on order again or if in last case scenario wait till October-Novemberish when the author is supposedly is back here again, including the third book (I hope!).

Baaaaaah, at least Kinokuniya has the last book in my list which is Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale and Nathan Hale (no relation to the other two).

Oh wait, nevermind! The library has that one at least, yay!

Oh man, the info I got was on a gif e-flyer so I’m retyping the major infos instead and oh I emailed them to ask who’s doing the plenary sessions too.

Date: 21 Feb 2009, Saturday

Time: 10am – 6pm

Venue: Blue room at The Arts House

Admission: Free

Continue reading More info on the Young Writer’s Seminar!

Note: February’s HSWG will be on  21st Feb, 2pm at Geek Terminal!

So it was pretty cool. Nerwen, NotKieran, RavenAzure and RavenSilvers came by to Geek Terminal and we did our thing. Oh a note to you guys, if you guys DO want to follow the plan, you got to email at least 3 chapters and a summary to Rozen to see if she’ll accept it and stuff for this year.

Meanwhile… I totally like GT since I got this.

Continue reading HSWG #1 recap!