Coffee and Conversations and Me!
December 3, 2021 at 12:21 am | Posted in media articles | Leave a commentTags: Coffee and Conversations, Inspiring magazines, Shikha Lamba, The Marvellous Adventures of Maggie and Methuselah
A big thank you to the lovely Shikha Lamba, publisher of the stunning e-magazine, Coffee and Conversations, for this lovely author feature! Shikha’s magazine features fascinating interviews with exceptional writers, artists and thinkers from around Asia and is one of my favourite reads, so I feel very humble and honoured to be their featured author this month! Click on this link to read more (and subscribe too if you want to be encouraged, uplifted and inspired every month!)
Beyond the Boundaries interview!
February 15, 2020 at 9:52 am | Posted in Beyond the Boundaries, Book reviews, Chinese Zodiac, media articles, Press interviews | Leave a commentTags: A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles, Authors on Authors, Beyond the Boundaries, Bhakti Mathur, Hilary Faulkner, Maureen Tai, Ritu Hemnani, Shikha Lamba
A big THANK YOU to Shikha Lamba, Editor of Beyond the Boundaries, for this fabulous feature article, published on 20th January. You can read all about my journey with the Chinese Calendar Tales and what I’ve got in store now that I’ve finished the series!
And if mums and dads would like some great recommendations for books to read, here is another fascinating article in the magazine with contributions from me and other wonderful Hong Kong authors on the books we love!
A fabulous article in The Standard!
May 8, 2019 at 7:21 am | Posted in Book reviews, Hong Kong, media articles | Leave a commentTags: The Chinese Calendar Tales, The Standard, The Tale of Chester Choi, The Tale of Ping Pong Pig
Huge thanks to Simon Lau, Chief Sub-Editor (Education) at The Standard, for this fantastic book review about The Chinese Calendar Tales published on 30 April! To see the whole article, click on the link below:
How I ended up in publishing!
February 26, 2019 at 10:54 am | Posted in Being a publisher, Being an Author, media articles | Leave a commentTags: Bookazine Magazine, The Chinese Calendar Tales
Here’s an interesting article from Bookazine which was published in their Spring magazine yesterday, where 7 people involved in publishing in Hong Kong (including Harry Harrison and me!) tell the story of how it all happened! Take a look and see if maybe one day you also might like to join this wonderful, frustrating, fascinating, difficult but very rewarding industry! Thank you to Clemence Robine, marketing manager at Bookazine, for including me! And don’t you just love Harry’s fun illustration?
Another great visit to Stamford American International School…with an SCMP journalist!
January 23, 2019 at 8:32 pm | Posted in Hong Kong Schools, media articles, School visits, Stamford American School Hong Kong, Story Readings, writing workshops for children | Leave a commentTags: Books about Chinese history for kids, Books about Chinese Zodiac, How to Write a Riveting Story, South China Morning Post, Sunday Post, The Tale of Chester Choi, The Tale of Ping Pong Pig, The Year of the Dragon, The Year of the Pig
Ping Pong Pig and I continued our funny and fabulous Hong Kong School tour on Tuesday afternoon with a visit to my friends at Stamford American International School in Ho Man Tin, where I am proud to be a Global Mentor. And this time I was accompanied by Fionnuala McHugh, a journalist for the South China Morning Post, who is writing a feature article for the Sunday Post for Chinese New Year!
After photos in the Activity Room, our terrific host Lisa Olinski introduced me to some lovely parents and younger kids who heard me reading my “youngest” book, The Tale of Chester Choi, and enthusiastically joined in with contributions as to how you chop off a dragon’s head, especially if it’s threatening your Dad! Then a lovely roomful of older kids and their parents heard my Tale of Ping Pong Pig, together with a whole lot of fascinating history about the third Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhu Di and his best friend the explorer Admiral Zheng He and his seven epic journeys in huge Treasure Boats as far as Africa!
Lastly, I gave my popular How to Write a Riveting Story workshop to the hardy mums and children who stayed on after the story reading! It was a busy, fun day, and wonderful to see this lovely school again! More photos to come!
Harry and I feature in a great article – and video – in the South China Morning Post Online!
March 2, 2018 at 11:30 am | Posted in media articles, On-line sales, books about Chinese Zodiac, Press, Video | Leave a commentTags: Jarrod Watt, SCMP Online, South China Morning Post, The Chinese Calendar Tales, The Tale of Desmond Dog, The Year of the Dog
Many thanks to Jarrod Watt for this fantastic article AND video in the South China Morning Post Online, published on 28 February! You can watch Harry and I talking all about our new story The Tale of Desmond Dog and how we work together on our Chinese Calendar Tales series! You can even see Harry drawing! Please share it with your family and friends! And if you want to buy our exciting new tale about Hong Kong, some wicked pirates and a very brave dog, just click on this link!
Yay! My blog has been awarded as one of the Top 100 Blogs in Hong Kong!!
January 10, 2018 at 9:08 am | Posted in Awards, media articles | Leave a commentTags: Feedspot, Top 100 Hong Kong Blogs
Wow! I’ve just heard from Feedspot who selected this blog as one of the Top 100 Hong Kong Blogs on the web! Click here to see the other Top Blogs and add them to your favourite blogs!
Some wonderful Storm Whale reviews in the UK
August 15, 2017 at 11:40 am | Posted in Book reviews, Clever Competitions, media articles, Storm Whale | 2 CommentsTags: Book Bag, Clever Competition, Minerva Reads, Old Barn Books, Storm Whale, Wonderful Whale Haiku Competition
Hello my friends! I hope you’ve had a GREAT school holiday! It’s been a long, quiet summer holiday here in Hong Kong, and I’m feeling wonderful – especially when I read the lovely reviews Storm Whale has been getting in the UK, where UK publisher Old Barn Books released our beautiful story on the 1st August!
Here are two new reviews:
Best picture book of the year from Clare Zinkin at http://www.minervareads.com/storm-whale-by-sarah-brennan-illustrated-by-jane-tanner/
And five stars from Anne Thompson at http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=Storm_Whale_by_Sarah_Brennan_and_Jane_Tanner who says it its the most beautiful picture she’s read for a while!
And speaking of whales…I still haven’t received your entry in my Wonderful Whale Haiku Competition! So go to my Clever Competitions page on the link above, or here for all the information, and start writing!
Turn off those digital devices, kids! My article in the SCMP Education Post…
March 30, 2017 at 12:04 pm | Posted in children's literacy, media articles | Leave a commentTags: children's literacy, Digital devices, Digital games, Education Post, John Cremer, South China Morning Post
As you know, I’m passionate about kids reading lots and lots and lots of books…and equally passionate about kids turning OFF their digital devices!! Scientific studies have proven, again and again, that the very best way to become not just a great writer, but also a great thinker, with a strong imagination and an original mind, is to read printed books, widely and well, and A LOT! They’re also proving that spending too much time on digital toys and screens (and the American Association of Pediatrics says that shouldn’t be more than 1 to 2 hours a day in total of high quality content) is very bad for you kids and can seriously affect your intellectual, physical and social development…OUCH!
Read my interview with John Cremer on 28th March in the South China Morning Post Education Post here – http://www.educationpost.com.hk/resources/parents-guide/170328-sponsored-feature-children-should-spend-more-time-reading-books-and-less-time-using-gadgets-says-panellist.
And then turn off your computer and bury your nose in a fabulous BOOK!
YAY!
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