​AUDREY CHIN 

Forty years on in Vietnam, where have all the young ones gone?

As the Heart Bones Break: So grateful this reviewer got it!

As the Heart Bones Break, on Lion City Lit

Roots are a gift, but homelessness gives us different opportunities

It may be unfashionable but I’m shouting it out anyway –  It’s good being a daughter of Singapore. It’s something to be immensely grateful for. I had flown from the Little Red Dot to the North Eastern USA for a wedding and then a book reading in Virginia. Unexpectedly, my country offered me a launch in their Washington DC embassy, the first of my book promotion events in the USA. I expected a subdued cosy evening,  I found out they’d pulled out the works! This was one moment

Here’s National Critics Choice’s video of the book chat about As the Heart Bones Break at Select Books https://oddznns.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/talking-about-heart-bones-on-national-critics-choice/ #writing #AstheHeartBonesBreak #WritersResources #Vietnam #acitizenofmyworld

Clara Freeman and Molly Grabowski do really interesting reviews of other books too. Please do go over there for a look at what they said about Heart Bones and all their other reviews – Thank you Clara – http://clara54.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/author-spotlight-audrey-chin-talks-about-her-new-book-and-brings-a-gift/ Thank you Molly – http://mismatchedbookends.blogspot.sg/2013/11/meet-audrey-chin-author-of-as-heart.html #AstheHeartBonesBreak #Freebook #soldout #Thankyou

These are the bones of the story. Please let them speak to you as I pitch … What do you think? Will material artefacts add to or detract from my pitch? Love to have your tips;) #AstheHeartBonesBreak #SingaporeWritersFestival #WritersResources #Vietnam #Ptichingascreenplay

What is Dystopia? Does the Road to Dystopia need to be made of dirt? Are our modern and comfortable societies already on the road to Dystopia? These were the weighty questions thrown at a panel I was featured on at a Singapore Writer’s Festival, together with literary eminents Nadeem Aslam and Kim Young-Ha, and moderated by experienced Hong Kong journalist Steven McCarty. http://www.singaporewritersfestival.com/author-details/nadeem-aslam Nadeem is a British writer who fled h

Thank you for the review Mirel Abeles. Mirel writes at Stories Worth Sharing and her stories are definitely worth reading. Find out more about Mirel’s stories here: http://storiesworthsharing.net/category/my-writing/ And yes, her review for Heart Bones is here: http://storiesworthsharing.net/as-the-heart-bones-break-by-audrey-chin/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+storiesworthsharing%2FTEjm+%28Stories+Worth+Sharing%29 #MirelAbeles #AstheHeartBonesBr

First there’s a whisper, next the words on paper and then the object begins to take shape … It becomes a physical book! I couldn’t have done it without support. This post is about everyone who helped make my intangible real – everyone who supported me. After years and multiple revisions  my novel is going to print Monday with a “real cover”, and a “real” set of acknowledgements- All I can say is: Our writer’s dreams become reality only with the support of other writers. So …

I thought I was a global person but it turns out I’m not … My novel As the Heart Bones Break is making its debut globally at Singapore Writer’s Festival in November. Well, almost globally. Singapore based international publisher Marshall Cavendish has the rights to everywhere except North America. I’m a global Asian. Jennifer’s Asian-American. The book, written in the 2nd person, is about a conflicted Vietnamese man and what happens when his American Vietnamese wife discovers