Silverfish Books has a new Facebook page
dedicated to news about books, writing and publishing. Friends of
Silverfish Books (including suppliers) may post items about their own
book projects or news about their industry. The posts, however, will be
moderated for, while we encourage you to share everything pertaining to
books, we will not be so interested in what anyone had for breakfast, or
how a date went, or other such things. Hope you'd understand. The other
thing is that we will be biased towards books from Malaysia and
Singapore, whether they are self-published, small runs, POD, or e-book;
that is we'd love to hear from you about books from or about these two
countries, preferably by writers from these two countries, but we are
more flexible about that. We prefer book events too (reading, book
launches and any other such event) from these two countries, but for
news, it could be anything interesting (pertaining to this subject) from
around the world.The Ikan Perak page will continue as it is for the time being, for stories of the more personal nature. I set up Ikan Perak in 2009, and though I am hardly a ludite (I can write code in PHP and know enough to design, launch and maintain the Silverfish website, online store and marketplace), I froze when confronted with the Facebook page, or maybe I was simply too darn lazy to work on it, or even invite friends. Fortunately, Jamilah has no such problems, and has designed the entire new page for us. In fact, she has agreed to continue managing the Silverfish Books Facebook page when she returns to college.
