Archives: Authors

Linda Fitzpatrick writes fun-filled, action-packed adventure stories for children. After studying professional writing and editing in Melbourne, she left Australia with her family to create new adventures in The Netherlands and Singapore. In 2014, she won the FAW Mary Grant Bruce award for her short story, ‘The Day Mum Sold the Touchscreen’, which was later published in [Untitled], by Busybird Publications. Her blog ‘Going Home’ helped her stay sane during their relocation back to Australia. She now lives in Melbourne with her husband and three children.

Simon Wray lives in Singapore with his wonderful wife and three amazing kids. Simon dreams of digging up hotel gardens in a glorious quest for hidden treasure; however, he is too scared of being shot. So, instead, he spends each day trying to solve the mystery of the missing car keys . . . ‘seriously though, where did I leave them?’ The Mystery of the Missing Silver is Simon’s debut in children’s books.

Emma Nicholson finds inventing stories as mouth-watering as munching French pastries at Raffles Hotel. She comes from Birmingham, England and spent many years playing around with languages, editing, teaching and writing. While living in Singapore, she published Princess Petunia’s Dragon, a fun and funny middle-grade fantasy. Life takes her to many places, where she scavenges ideas for writing and sketching.

Claire Thamboo is a junior schoolteacher who writes over a range of genres, from supernatural fantasy to whodunits. She enjoys creating young protagonists who grapple with mystery, mayhem and the occasional mood swing. In the rare snippets of spare time made available to her, she relaxes by reading, swimming and playing the piano.

David Seow graduated from the University of Portland, Oregon with a BA in Communications. He is the author of over forty-five well-received children’s picture books, including the Sam, Sebbie and Di-Di-Di & Xandy series. His books There’s Soup on Fly! and Blow a Kiss were finalists for the SCBWI Crystal Kite Members Choice Award in 2012.
Two of his titles, A Day with the Duchess and A Royal Adventure, were featured in Hola! Hello! Online, The International Business Times, and The Sunday Express. ‘Stamford Raffles: Zombie Zapper’ is David’s first published middle-grade story.

Mark Yong is an artist and a self-proclaimed professional chef with an ardent love for burgers. When he isn’t doodling away in his sketchbook or watching the latest superhero flicks, you can find him hunting for the best burger in town.

Sharmila Bhushan has a Master’s Degree in Spanish from Jawaharlal Nehru University. After a brief stint early on in her career as a Spanish language teacher at Symbiosis Institute of Foreign Trade Pune, she chose to pursue a freelance career as a Spanish and Portuguese translator and interpreter. In her career spanning over twenty-five years she has worked in a diverse range of fields and is on the translators’ panel of several companies, human rights, women’s health and women’s rights organizations. She is also Spanish language conference interpreter and has provided simultaneous interpretation services in over sixty international conferences.
Besides her love for languages, she also actively pursues her twin passions of music and painting and is part of an amateur band and has been actively involved with the Mago Memorial Art Foundation to promote art. Website: www.sharmilabhushan.com

John McGlynn has translated or edited over 100 works, including translations of several of works by Pramoedya which he published using his pen name, Willem Samuels, including The Mute’s Soliloquy. According to Tempo (Indonesian magazine), “Over the years, McGlynn worked to produce English translations of Indonesia’s top literary works, collaborating with a diverse group of translators, such as Harry Aveling, an authority on Indonesian and Malay literature.

John Balcom teaches at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His translations include Cao Naiqian’s There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night (2009); Huang Fan’s Zero and Other Fictions (2011); and Yang Mu’s Memories of Mount Qilai: The Education of a Young Poet (2015).

Migs Bravo Dutt is a writer and researcher who has published work in several countries, regions, and cultures. She is the author of the contemporary novel, The Rosales House, from Penguin Random House SEA (PRHSEA), and a forthcoming collection of novellas, Room 216, also from PRHSEA. Migs has also published several essays, including one in the Washington Post about her pandemic experience in the USA. She has contributed prose and poetry to anthologies and journals and has been featured in literary interviews and programs in Asia, Europe and the USA. Her short fiction was selected for 22 New Asian Short Stories, Kitaab’s The Best Asian Short Stories, and Growing Up Filipino 3. Migs has co-edited Get Lucky: An Anthology of Philippine and Singapore Writings in 2015 and its sequel Get Luckier: An Anthology of Philippine and Singapore Writings II in 2022.