Tell us about yourself.:
I’m an eighty-one-year-old mother of three children and grandmother of four lovely grandchildren, two boys and two girls. The older boy and girl have graduated and are living and working in the United Kingdom, while the younger pair are still in elementary school in Singapore.
I live in the Land below the Wind on exotic Borneo Island in the Far East with my spouse, while my other siblings live in mainland Malaysia across the South China Sea.
I love to write and began writing while I was in elementary school. My mother encouraged me to submit articles to the local newspaper while my class teacher asked me to rewrite children’s stories in simpler language for my class library. I was a voracious reader and used to borrow storybooks from the community library.
Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?:
I grew up in a small town where one goes everywhere on foot or by bicycle unless you were very rich and could afford a car. My mother was an elementary school teacher. She used to walk my siblings and me to the community library every week to borrow books.
My love of reading storybooks nurtured my creative muse, and I tried my hand at short stories and poems.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
. I write when the creative flow overcomes me and I munch on chocolates and junk food while writing. Doing so helps me to focus. It could be a 100-word story written in less than an hour or a poem wrung out from extreme emotions. Longer stories require more time to plot and write. Whatever the prompt, I enjoy the writing process when my imagination is set free to run wild.
What authors have influenced you?
I grew up in a small town where one goes everywhere on foot or by bicycle unless you were very rich and could afford a car. My mother was an elementary school teacher. She used to walk my siblings and me to the community library every week to borrow books.
My love of reading storybooks nurtured my creative muse, and I tried my hand at short stories and poems.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Let your imagination run wild and jot down whatever comes to mind. You can sort the ideas out later into an outline for your story.
What is the best advice you have ever been given?
The best advice I’ve been given is to write from the heart.
What are you reading now?
A paranormal story about wolf shifters.
What’s your biggest weakness?
Eating junk food while writing or reading.
What is your favorite book of all time?
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
When you’re not writing, how do you like to spend your time?
Tend to my plants, talk to them. When I’m done with my plants I watch Netflix. Usually romantic or thriller stories.
Do you remember the first story you ever read, and the impact it had on you?
I remember the Enid Blyton series “The Famous Five.” I thought the character Georgina was great. She was a tomboy, and I wanted to be like her.
What has inspired you and your writing style?
Knowing that there are readers who like to read my stories inspires me and I try my best to give them stories that will take them into my imaginary world and let them lose themselves in the stories.
What are you working on now?
I’m currently working on a series about forbidden love between two different species: the vampire and the wolf.
What is your favorite method for promoting your work?
Through social media.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I would like to turn my books into audiobooks, but I can’t now because of cash flow problems.
How well do you work under pressure?
I work better under pressure.
How do you decide what tone to use with a particular piece of writing?
It would depend on the heroine or the protagonist in the story.
If you could share one thing with your fans, what would that be?
I may be old physically but I’m very young at heart!! Sometimes I feel as if I’m still sweet sixteen! LOL!!
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