Ep476 — IVY NGEOW — “EMOTION MORE THAN ANYTHING.”

Ivy Ngeow was born and raised in Malaysia and is a multi-award winning author. Her latest novel The American Boyfriend was longlisted for the Avon x Mushens Entertainment Prize for Commercial Fiction Writers of Colour 2022. Ivy is a musician, she’s also written non-fiction cookery books, diet books, interior design books, she sells tie-in merch for her fiction, she’s a powerhouse of creativity and she tells us how it all began with a house full of boring books.

And in the extended version for Academy members and podcast Patrons, the Two Marks discuss routes to market for your books, buzz and hype, leaving your agent, finding time in your day for craft and business, using diagrams to create a story and much more!

WE DISCUSS…

The effect of moving into a house full of books when Ivy was a child
Why she’s okay with rejections
And why there’s more to writing than just typing…

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