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Three Storytellers, Two Listeners, One Story
In his essay ‘The Counterfactual Dialectic’ in Pulp on Pulp, Misha Burnett discusses the use of dialectic to determine what is said to the reader, how it is said, and what the reader will take away from it. I loved the concept so much, I used it for my own work Diary of A Bomoh—with…
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The Based Black Friday/Cyber Monday Book 2022 Sale!
Hans Schantz’s annual Based Black Friday / Cyber Monday Book sale is here again! In a world dominated by tradpub gatekeeping and woke propaganda, the Based Black Friday / Cyber Monday Book sale curates titles from the finest established and emerging non-woke authors in the field. This year’s edition features over 190 titles priced at…
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The Lies of DIARY OF A BOMOH
Fiction tells truth through lies. The writer knows the story is make-believe. The reader knows the story is make-believe. Yet when the story is told, both parties agree to treat it as real. The events in the story are real. The characters are real. The world is real. Everything within the pages of the story…
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DIARY OF A BOMOH is live!
In a quiet neighbourhood in Singapore, a body is found inside a locked apartment. Tasked with identifying the deceased, Inspector Ibrahim has his work cut out for him. With no identity documents at the scene, and no neighbours who remember the resident, his only clue is a set of diaries written in English, Malay and…
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Diary of A Bomoh is available for preorder!
In a quiet neighbourhood in Singapore, a body is found inside a locked apartment. Tasked with identifying the deceased, Inspector Ibrahim has his work cut out for him. With no identity documents at the scene, and no neighbours who remember the resident, his only clue is a set of diaries written in English, Malay and…
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Diary of A Bomoh: The Locked Apartment Mystery
The clock is counting down to the release of my next book, Diary of A Bomoh. Diary of A Bomoh is a departure from my previous stories. The story is an epistolary novel, told entirely through emails and diary entries. It is the life story of a bomoh, a traditional Malay shaman. Except that this…