Hi everyone

Just an update on where I am and what I’m doing.  After my book launch in Singapore in August 2012, I actually moved to Singapore for a short 6-month stint this year.  This involved wrapping up my work with the Doha Film Institute (where ultimately I had overseen 300+ screenings of 200+ art-house/foreign films and was very tired) — and leaving Qatar.

In Singapore, I worked as a Project Consultant for Temasek Holdings, on a future nature-themed tourist attraction.  Fascinating work, and thematically right up my alley, but ultimately I missed the time to write my own stuff.

Hence my second move this year, back to London, where I’m currently blazing ahead on a new novel and learning loads about literature and writing practice, through the Creative Writing MA at Goldsmiths, University of London.  After years of boardroom meetings, Blackberry messages, and delayed bureaucratic approvals, I have to say being a student and having the time to be creative on my own terms is a breath of fresh air.  I highly recommend it, if you’re the creative type!

I still do freelance work, so if anyone’s in need of a film programming consultant, copy writer, script editor, or general creative conceptualizer (whatever that means) …. give me a shout!

Next up, I’m working on becoming a philosopher-king (whatever that means).  Or maybe a warrior-poet.  (They won the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.  Don’t mess.)