My Kuala Lumpur Visit - coming up in Feb

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On Saturday 24 February, I will be joining the inauguaral Breakfast Club for LitBloggers in Kuala Lumpur. The event is run by MPH Bookstores and will be at MPH Bangsar Village Phase II from 10am - 11.30am. MPH have invited me to speak about how blogging has helped me with my writing and give tips on how to get published in the UK. If you’re in KL that day, do come to the event and say “hi”. The other litblogger will be poet Sharanya Manivannan and I am looking forward to meeting her and hearing about the poetry scene in KL.

Eric Forbes, MPH’s book editor, has put up more details on his blog - click here.

How did this come about?

Well, just before Christmas, I made plans to go back to Kuala Lumpur for a week at the end of February. I emailed Sharon Bakar who blogs at www.thebookaholic.blogspot.com to let her know and ask if she would like to meet for coffee. Sharon is originally from the UK but has been living in Malaysia for over twenty years and is KL’s creative writing guru. I came to know of her through the global literary blogging community and we’ve been in touch via email and keeping up with each other’s blogs.

Anyway, Sharon suggested to MPH that they might like to involve me in an event and they emailed me to invite me to the Breakfast Club. I am thrilled to have a chance to meet readers, bloggers and other literary types at their event - and it will also be the first time that I will be seeing Sharon in person. It’s going to be a fun morning so I hope you can join us.

I hope also that they lay on a lot of coffee for the Breakfast part of the club - I’m arriving from London late the night before and I’ll need the caffeine to blast away my jet-lag!