Archive for the 'Podcasts' Category

As part of my series on Getting Published, I spoke to UK Literary Agent Lucy Luck about the process of submitting your manuscript for publication. She gives her advice and answers questions emailed by Fusion View readers and listeners about how a literary agent can help an author, what to put in your covering letter, what’s hot in the publishing world right now and much more.

Listen to our conversation using the embedded player below.

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You can also receive this and future Fusion View Podcasts free via iTunes.

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If you would like to submit your manuscript to Lucy, go to her webpage at www.lucyluck.com - please mention Fusion View in your covering letter.

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To enable as many of my readers and listeners to benefit from Lucy’s advice, this post will headline Fusion View until Thursday 24 August 2006 8.30am (GMT+1) when the next post will be uploaded.

What does it take to become the Vidal Sassoon of Malaysia?

In this podcast I talk to Winnie Loo, founder and creative director of A Cut Above salon, how she built up her brand to become the Vidal Sassoon of Malaysia. You can also get the chance to win a copy of her motivational book A Cut Above, Built on Hard Work, True Grit and a Pair of Scissors - details below.

Winnie built up her hairdressing salon, A Cut Above, over 30 years from a small unit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to become the premier brand in hair styling in Malaysia. She has opened the A Cut Above Hairdressing Academy, a training centre of excellence for stylists in Malaysia and across Asia. She is also a motivational speaker and author.

I spoke to Winnie on the phone from Kuala Lumpur.

You can listen to the podcast with the embedded player below.

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Or, you can listen to this and other Fusion View podcasts by clicking here.

You can also receive this and future Fusion View Podcasts free via iTunes.

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Win a Copy of Winnie’s book: A Cut Above, Built on Hard Work, True Grit and a Pair of Scissors

Winnie has offered three copies of her book A Cut Above, Built on Hard Work, True Grit and a Pair of Scissors for the Fusion View prize draw. For a chance to win, all you have to do is become an email subscriber to Fusion View. Subscription is free and I will not use your email address for any other purpose.

For more details on how to become a subscriber and win a copy of Winnie’s book, click here - plus more on my subscription policy.

Winnie Loo, founder and creative directof of A Cut Above Salon has offered 3 copies of her motivational book A Cut Above: Built on Hard Work, True Grit and a Pair of Scissorsto be won!

Listen to my interview with Winnie here.

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• The closing date for this prize draw is 31 August 2006. You can still subscribe after that date and you will automatically be entered into the next prize draw.
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  The Rules for the prize draw
  1. The closing date for this draw is 31 August 2006. Within two weeks of that date, 3 winners will be picked at random from the list of subscribers.
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A comment posted by Lydia on my podcast What Makes a Good Story? about how very English I sound started me thinking about my two voices - my English voice and my Malaysian one - and how they express two different parts of my personality.

I was going to write a post about it but then I realised that a podcast would be the best way to show what I mean - so you can hear the two sides of me.

You can listen to the podcast with the player below.

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Or, you can listen to this and other Fusion View podcasts by clicking here.

You can also receive this and future Fusion View Podcasts free via iTunes.

As part of my exploration of the writing process, I talk to Terry Bailey, lecturer in scriptwriting at the University of Aberystwyth, where he teaches scriptwriting at undergraduate level and also at Masters level. What are the elements of a good story? How important is structure in a novel or screenplay? Terry outlines the key principles and recommends some good guidebooks on writing and story. I describe how I structured my first novel, The Flame Tree, using post-it notes and a blank wall!

Listen to our conversation with the player below.

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Or, you can listen to this and other Fusion View podcasts by clicking here.

You can also receive this and future Fusion View Podcasts free via iTunes.

Continuing the Fusion Stories series, in this podcast, I talk to Pey Colborne whose experience of both Eastern and Western cultures have influenced her work as an aromatherapist and poet.

Listen to the podcast with the embedded player below.

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• To find out more about Pey’s aromatherapy practice at Neals Yard in Bath - go to www.nealsyardremedies.com and click through to their shop in Bath.

• On the podcast, Pey reads one of her poems:

English is my Second Language

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Ghosted on a foundation of inscrutable whispers,

Restless meanings, rocking the cradle.

Sleep now, a lullaby of pictographs.

Dancing with the seagulls in my first

Encyclopedia of Birds,

White wings, black tipped, flashing in the blue sky

White dress, baby feet flashing in that blue heat

Flight and dreaming yoked together

As the many-names-of-things.

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Second language,

The ladder to my escape

The way out, the other world

I wrestled for it, asked for blessing;

Exile is an English name.

In banishment, a faint music still follows me

A bamboo scaffold, wobbly but strong

To build new rhythms in a journey (not home).

I go to China, place my ancestors worship,

I clamber around and wind its golden dragons round my thumbs;

Master its ways, gallop the horses of the steppes–

On a high plateau, dance with Generals drunken and fat,

In gold braid and red caps.

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I dream in tongues varied and few

In contemplative red mansions

In entire tales scried from a second’s being

In none, come the power of commonality

But in lonely fragments

Like us, seeking to be held close.

My first language follows me like instinct

Or a beautiful abstract

Entirely open in meaning

Unforceable and permeating

A stricken mute maiden

At my heels.

I’ve learnt to jump through the hoops now

I am my other tongue

Whether right or sinister–

Bound like a confident wave to the sea.

I feel the power and the draw of it

The sensual limning,

A careful adornment of bare bones–

Talisman and relic,

Dissecting the myth

Making it new.

Copyright Pey Colborne
Published in Magma 29 Spring 2004

In addition to written posts, you can now listen to podcasts on Fusion View.

First Podcast - Dishad Husain Interview

The first podcast was uploaded on Thursday 29 June 2006. I interviewed Dishad Husain, the British-Asian filmmaker, whose short film Holly Bolly has been making waves all over the world. You can listen to it on the original post page by clicking here.

Listen by launching standalone player from the sidebar

Or, you can launch a standalone player from the middle sidebar in the Fusion View Podcasts section, where you can select the interview with Dishad or any other podcast that is uploaded in the future - go to the player in the sidebar and click on the arrow in the top right corner of it.

Receive Fusion View podcasts automatically

Fusion View Podcast are now on iTunes in the iTunes Podcasts directory. You can subscribe to receive podcasts automatically on your computer via iTunes - there is a link to iTunes in the individual post page for each podcast, or you can use the link to iTunes in the middle sidebar in the Fusion View Podcasts section.

Or, you can use the subscription links in the standalone player.

Future Podcasts

Future podcasts will include an interview with Pey Colborne, an aromatherapist and poet, whose East/ West experiences infuse her work and writing.

We continue our Fusion Stories series with the first Fusion View podcast where I interview Dishad Husain, the British-Asian director, about making his award-winning short film “Holly Bolly”.

You can listen to the podcast by clicking on the embedded player below.

Alternatively, you can listen to this and other Fusion View podcasts by clicking here.

The links to Dishad’s films and projects mentioned in the podcast are:

• www.imotion.com
• BBC Film Network, “Holly Bolly” page

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To read or listen to more Fusion Stories, go to the sidebar in the far right of the Fusion View homepage and click on the Category “Fusion Stories”.

Do you have a fusion story to tell? Do you have cross-cultural experiences in your life you would like to share? Find out how you can tell your story on Fusion View by going to the Announcements section in the middle sidebar of the Fusion View homepage and clicking on “Tell Us Your Fusion Story.”