In August 2020, I sat down for a phone interview with Kim Villagante, a.k.a. Kimmortal the Artist to record their an episode for their podcast, FACES. Kim is a musician, actor, rapper, and community builder. FACES is a deep dive into artists working and living on unceded Coast Salish [...]
In September 2020, Saltwater Spirits became available for library loans in Singapore. Thank you to all my readers in Singapore who requested the National Library Board (NLB) to carry Saltwater Spirits in the catalog. Putting in a request to your library is one of the best ways to show [...]
On July 18, 2020, I joined 25 other authors at INFUSION-YA Book Festival in an exciting day-long virtual literary festival. INFUSION-YA Book Festival is a book festival dedicated to lovers of young adult literature. As a new author with a self-published work and someone who writes literary fiction with a [...]
Dear Saltwater Spirits, Who would have thought writing you would have taken us both this far? We've been invited to multiple readings, been asked to moderate at a conference, and next month, we will be attending our first literary festival ever. I never thought, as a new author and you [...]
My novel, Saltwater Spirits and Sastra tote from Studio Gypsied (photo credit: Aqilah Zailan) In December 2019, I sat down for an interview with Aqilah Zailan of Studio Gypsied, a conscious fashion label from Singapore. I was familiar with Studio Gypsied since 2018 -- Aqilah's modern interpretation [...]
On the morning of Saturday, September 28, I walked into my old alma mater at the University of British Columbia. The Robert. H Lee Alumni Center is a beautiful space and Stratagem 2019 — a 2.5-day summit focused on elevating conversations around diversity and inclusion in the workplace — took [...]
On the night of August 14, 2019, I performed at a fundraiser for Loujain Al-Hathloul. It was the biggest audience I've performed in front to date. There were about 100 people in a space that showed up to support Loujain's campaign. Loujain al-Hathloul is a detained Saudi women's rights [...]
It’s been two months since the official launch of Saltwater Spirits. Since then, I’ve been trying to juggle work, parenting, and life. Throughout it all, I have continued writing and boy, has it been a real doozy. Some people have asked if I’ll be writing a sequel to Saltwater Spirits. [...]
The launch of Saltwater Spirits was a huge success. I performed several excerpts from my debut novel to a full house and there was a lively Q&A period followed by author signing and mingling. Thank you to Patricia Massy of Massy Books for hosting the book launch in your [...]
On May 24, 2019, I had the honor of being invited to perform for the Real Vancouver Writers' Series. I was part of a lineup of six writers from Vancouver and Toronto. I was invited as an emerging writer, to share work from my debut novel, Saltwater Spirits. My [...]
