Fantasy With a Hint of Asian Spices
Continued Professional Development is a term that people are used to hearing in their normal work lives. It is a part of the psychological contract between employers and employees. It refers to the unspoken promise of improving a person’s employability by providing training and ongoing development, whether through accredited courses or in-house training. In our […]
Read More Continued Professional Development for WritersPilgrennon’s Beacon by Manda Benson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Pilgrennon’s Beacon is the bleak tale of an autistic child, whose disability was exploited before she was even born. Now Dana is trying to come to terms with the fact that her organic brain is meshed with a computer processor able to communicate with […]
Read More Review: Manda Benson’s Pilgrennon’s BeaconWhere do you find inspiration to write? That’s the question I get asked often when I tell people that I’m a writer. Not that I go around telling everyone I meet that I am a writer, of course. Well, not everyone I meet, at least. It varies from writer to writer. Some are inspired by […]
Read More Inspiration and Writer’s BlockThe Dvargar of Amundborg is like an appendix to The Changeling King. It follows the story of Lord Gillieron and Lady Merenwen, as they journey into dvargar land to the mountain fortress Amundborg (featured on the cover art). It was originally one of the story arcs from The Changeling King but was cut due to […]
Read More The Dvargar of AmundborgWhy do writers write? The following, I think, captures the main reasons: 1. artistic expression 2. for the sheer pleasure of it 3. to share stories with others (and wisdom) 4. to explore universal truths 5. for profit or for fame The latter reason, I think are considered by most as an additional benefit, with […]
Read More What Drives Writers?The Changeling King by Noor A. Jahangir My rating: 5 of 5 stars I wrote this book so maybe this isn’t the wisest thing to do. I mean, can an author give a balanced and objective review of their own work? There are times when you hate your work and at the same time, you […]
Read More Reflecting on The Changeling KingFarhana Shaikh of the Asian Writer interviewed me a couple of weeks ago and the transcript is now live on the Asian Writer website. In addition to this interview, Rod Seeder has featured my personal journey to publishing The Changeling King on his Virtual Books blog. At the time of writing this post, The Changeling […]
Read More Writer’s JourneysIts happened! The Changeling King has been published through Smashwords and is now downloadable as an ebook in various formats. Don’t worry if you don’t have a smartphone or an ebook enabled device, you can read it on your computer. If you’ve got a Kindle, a Nook or an iPad, it will soon be coming […]
Read More Publication!!!Remember Seven Earths? eJournal of fantasy, sf and horror? Stop laughing. After issue 1 received good feedback, issue two experienced failure to launch. Why? The submissions were thin on the ground and the few we received weren’t good enough. We can’t just print everything. That defeats the point. So I sent the Brothers Anwar an […]
Read More Seven EarthsNo I’m not talking about the original UK version of the Snickers bar! I’m talking about a three movie stint I had at Reading Oracle’s VUE cinema. I watched Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Fast Five and Thor, over a day and a half. If X-Men First Class had come out a day […]
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