A new look QuixotiQ Writings is now officially up and running (let's admit it, this one looks dead dull and we all love change don't we?!)... but I must warn you, it is...
I'm off to Japan for a few days. I've never been to Japan. Osaka to be exact. But I've always wondered how it would be. So I'm excited about the trip. I leave...
Booksplus, the leading bookstore chain the the Kingdom, has restocked a few more copies of QuixotiQ in both thier Seef Mall and A'ali Shipping Complex branches... so if you've...
In a recent magazine interview, the writers stressed to me the significance in writing in a second language. As a Bahraini, Arabic is my mother tongue. I realized that not many...
I’m still waiting for my new batch of books to come in. But I’ve just been told that they should be here by Tuesday. So, fingers crossed. Though I’m not entirely sure yet...
I got through! I’ve been trying to log into my bravenet journal for almost three weeks now to no avail. Finally today, it seems to be working fine. I guess it knew...
Today I was suddenly struck by some sort of revelation. I stood in the middle of my room and stared blankly at the floor and I thought to myself “Hey, I’m 27 years old!”...
I’ve got a rejection letter today… in my inbox this morning was an email from the editor of Fiction Warehouse informing me that my two submitted stories did “not suit our...
The trip Oman was brilliant. It was a work-related three-day trip in which I got stuck in an airplane for three and a half hours, got drenched to the bone with seawater as I...
Big thanks go out to every person who voted for me in the first annual BABAs (Best Arab Blog Awards) and for earning me the Award for Best Bahraini Blog for 2004! You guys rock!...
I’ve just realized that my novel was mentioned yet again in another article that ran in the GDN last week. One paragraph though was rather misleading. Among 110 Bahriani books...
At long last, I have completed writing the short story “Jalboot” halting at just a wee over the 7,000 words mark. This one took several months to finish and...
Don’t we always take things for granted? How many of us make it a rule of checking the expiry date on every single bit of food we purchase? I would say not a lot. A...
The feeling you get when you receive a review from a critic is unlike any other. The fact that someone you do not know, never met or spoke to, someone who you have no...
Looking back over 2004, I can’t say it’s been a terrible year, on a personal and more significantly professional, level. I’m sure all of us go through that same phase at...
The launch of QuixotiQ, my debut novel, has been recently described as one of the most “influential and memorable” events of 2004! In the latest edition of Gulf...
I’ve been writing bits and pieces on and off these past few days… I would randomly write a line or two or a paragraph or two for this story or that. I have no idea how much...
Yes my waffles are gone! It f**king pisses me off. You know, I don’t mind if someone else ate them, or if they’ve been throw out, but not known what happened to...
Those of you who know me well would know that I don’t cope well with work (as in with having a day-job!) and that I’m impatient, easily distracted and easily bored and that...
The new BTM was released a couple of days ago and has a couple of articles by yours truly. One of them The Pearl of Our Past, can now be read online on the magazine’s...
I was more than thrilled to finally see imaged from the upcoming film Mirrormask, the genius collaboration between the maters of storytelling and fantastical art, Neil...
In the space of two days, two of my short stories have been published on two different websites! At long last, my story A Beauty’s Tale which was submitted to...
I’m not feeling that great right now. I’m not entirely sure why. But I won’t try and get into this so that I don’t end up rambling about nothing and everything and have...
I’ve finally had a chance to update my website today. To learn about what I’ve been doing these last couple of weeks, who I’ve been seeing and why, click on the news and...
The amount of publishers NOT accepting submissions or “unsolicited” manuscripts is, by all measures, ridiculous. It seems that every other publisher is either...
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