What a Compliment?

When I read L M Montgomery's series on Anne of Green Gables just before my teens, her words made me picture the scenarios that made me longed to see it. I finally saw it as I drove over the bridge to Prince Edward Island, many years later and it was exactly like she described it. Where is this going? Just a little patience, my friend....

One of my readers, gave me a compliment that reflected the above, when I only, posted two short paragraphs of Beneath the Singapore Sky. When a reader who has not visited the Far East can feel the atmosphere and see the scenery, ah, that is what many authors hope for.Thank you Nathan!  Also, on the thank you band wagon, I like to include my former schoolmates in Singapore who told me that parts of my second novel Lucia M of Singapore was to them, a walk on Memory Lane! So terima kaseh, Julia, Josephine and Sarah.

My next post in September will be excerpts from Lucia M of Singapore.
                                                 Edit - Second Editon of Beneath the Singapore Sky-still at the Printers. As soon as they are available, you'll be notified. Thanks for your patience.
PC Nicholas

Working on the Sequel to "Beneath the Singapore Sky"

So what do you do when a few people who bought your book ask, " So when will the Sequel be out?"
It is on the back cover of the present novel Beneath the Singapore Sky that a sequel will follow. Yet it surprised me that it provoked interest even though these customers did not even begin reading the first chapter of book that they were holding. "Before Christmas," I blurted.
I realized as soon as the words were out that I had just given myself a deadline.


Nothing like a deadline for a writer to prevent the deadly procrastination. So I started working on  Lucia M of Singapore enthusiastically initially. However, after a few chapters, I realized I was not dreaming of the next chapters as I did the first novel. My heart sank. Where was the ideas for  next plot or chapter going to come from? Did writing my first novel attach me to my dreams? Perhaps!

Although, this novel was more of a challenge to write, I believe it had made me more creative, especially my format changed from the first one.. So much so, that I have decided to rewrite the format for  Beneath the Singapore Sky for the second edition or printing. The story will not change but how it is presented will.  I am gearing up for another book signing and a reading for the public library.

If any of you had done a reading for you book, please send me your views and what to expect as this will be the first for me. I have not really done a book launch yet, however in September I will be doing my third book signing in Toronto. If any of you are in the vicinity, you're invited to attend.
PC Nicholas

Beneath the Singapore Sky 4

If you are wondering where Beneath the Singapore Sky post 1-3 are? Well, I have left them in my older established blog - empower-you.blogspot.com


The second book signing went well considering the almost non-existent advertising and the summer activities and festivals going on that weekend.
The next book signing will be in Toronto on the 18 and 19 of September. More information will be posted in the next few weeks.

I've also been approached to do a reading at the library as well as in a couple of book clubs? No I've not heard from Oprah yet!

The sequel is progressing although slower than I expected. Perhaps, I did not factor the time I would be spending promoting the first book. What a learning experience?
Agapelife/P Nicholas

Welcome to TransformYourLife

I have with much trepidation, created a new blog as a venue for my novels. This is to distinguish my fiction writing blog from my health related factual blog. What I write here will be as original as what I have written in my Empower-You Blog. I plan to transfer some of my writing material from that blog to here.

Will this be an interactive blog? I had plans that my Empower-You blog would have been interactive. Plans - Ha Ha. Did you hear this? What gave God a roaring laugh? When He heard man and woman making plans!

I will write at least monthly on this blog.So comments are welcomed.
PC Nicholas