Tag: Nonfiction

  • The Black Friday Cyber Monday Based Book Sale is On!

    Cheap books! Free books! And most importantly, based books! The Based Black Friday Cyber Monday Book Sale is live! With over 100 books from top and emerging talent, the sale offers the finest in non-woke fiction. For one week only, enjoy a myriad of books at only $0.99 each, or free! Featured authors include James Alderdice, Hawkings Austin, Henry Brown,…

  • Pulp on Pulp is Available for Preorder!

    Last year, Misha Burnett and I put together a call for submissions for an anthology of essays on pulp fiction. Titled Pulp on Pulp, it collects tips, tricks and advice on the art of writing pulp fiction from some of the up and coming names in the growing PulpRev movement. Pulp on Pulp was meant…

  • Confessions of A Keyboard Monkey

    I wear many hats. As a writer, I’m Singapore’s first Hugo and Dragon Award nominated writer. As a blogger, I co-founded The Online Citizen and sparked the rise of citizen journalism in Singapore. Martial artist, soldier, husband, son, student, coach, I’ve been many things to many people. As myself, I am a keyboard monkey. The…

  • Sane in a Crazy World

    We live in a crazy world. A world filled with outrage, manipulation and deception. A world where spin doctors and professional liars hijack your brain to further their agendas. A world where politicians and tyrants divide people against themselves. A world where advertisers and influencers manipulate emotions to earn megabucks. A world that is getting…

  • Three Essential Mindset Books for the Modern Man

    There are three books every modern man must read today. These books are not for the faint of heart or weak of will. They are not soothing feel-good diatribes designed only to part your money from your wallet. These books are forges for the soul, created to scrub away your weaknesses and temper your spirit…

  • Inducing Flow Through Mindful Writing

    You have finite time and energy. The world has infinite distractions. How, then, can a writer stay true to his calling? I began writing my first novel when I was 13. Every day, I sat at my beat-up second-hand laptop and wrote. I wrote and wrote and wrote until I was done. Then I went…