Month: August 2026

Ivy Ngeow: The Mistakes Make You | Mark Stay’s Creative Differences

Award-winning author Ivy Ngeow returns with a page-turning thriller In Safe Hands. 

We discuss: 

  • Why books are like buildings 
  • How art is built on observation 
  • Why we shouldn’t fear our mistakes and much more! 
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LINKS

https://writengeow.com

Thanks to:

Dom Currie for the jingle

Emily Stay-Newton and Kai Stay-Newton for the edit

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Things People say to Authors’ Dads at Comic Cons…

What made my dad so angry at this weekend’s comic con…?

Pre-Order The End of Magic audiobook!

The audiobook edition of THE END OF MAGIC now has a cover and pre-order links!

The narrator is the wonderful Mr Dan Calley, and the audiobook will be available from Audible, Apple, Libro, Barnes and Noble and many more (more, like Kobo etc, will be added in due course) on 22nd September.

Pre-orders are an important thing in this world of algorithms, so do please click on the image below (cover art courtesy of the amazing Alejandro Colucci) where the pre-order links will be revealed…

Beatles Ranking on Authorized

I’ve been a guest on the Authorized Podcast quite a few times, and I love chatting about novelisations and film-related books, but I was especially honoured to be asked to guest on one of their special ranking episodes a few weeks ago. Ostensibly, we were supposed to be ranking the Beatles books and films that we’d been discussing over the course of the season, but we started by discussing the Odyssey movie, the new Spider-Man and much, much more. It’s basically a cultural digest of cool stuff! Of course, if you want to skip all that and get to the Beatles stuff, that starts about an hour in. Enjoy (available from all podcast providers, but for some reason Spotify is the only link that will embed here… hey ho)…

And here are my previous Beatles episodes if you want to catch up…

Comic Con Also-Boughts… at the Canterbury Gaming Convention

I had a great time at this weekend’s Canterbury Gaming Convention and I asked the good people who bought my books what was the last book they read and loved…

Ivy Ngeow LIVE tonight (just after the eclipse)…

Join us live: WEDNESDAY 12TH AUGUST, 8PM BST
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Things People Say to Authors at Comic Cons: August 2026

Here’s another round of things that people say to authors at comic cons…

Tickets for the Canterbury Gaming Convention are selling fast. Don’t miss out! Pre book here!

Comic Con Also-Boughts: Tunbridge Wells August 2026

I’ve started asking people who buy my books at comic cons about the last book they read and loved…

Want to know when I’m next at a comic con? Either sign up to my newsletter, or check my diary and events page.

Come on a Magical Mystery Tour

Join me and the Authorized gang as we join the Beatles on a deep dive into the chaotic cult classic Magical Mystery Tour…

Resident Evil [2002] by Keith R. A. DeCandido ( w/ Jesse Hassenger ) – Authorized Novelizations Podcast

In celebration of the new Resident Evil film, we invited Jesse Hassenger back to discuss one of Hannah’s favorite movies: Resident Evil!Commissioned in advance of the second film, this novelization gives SO much backstory on the characters from the film. It’s fun! Check out The New Flesh podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1LdspeZxoCWlb25nIuCAqwFollow us on instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/authorizedpod⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/authorizedpod.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out our Patreon, where you can throw us a few bucks to help us afford these books, pay us to cover a specific novelization, or send us to the Hayden Library at ASU to read Alan Dean Foster’s unpublished manuscript for a two-part episode of Maude called “Maude’s Dilemma”, in which Maude gets unexpectedly pregnant and has to decide how to proceed: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/c/authorizedpod⁠⁠⁠⁠The patreon also has a community chat where you can chat with Overbye and Hannah directly, if you desire such a thing. Follow us on letterboxd:Overbye – ⁠⁠⁠letterboxd.com/aoverbye Hannah- ⁠letterboxd.com/hsblechmanJesse- https://letterboxd.com/rockmarooned/Next on Authorized: William Mendoza joins Darkman in a quest to meet The Gods of Hell 
  1. Resident Evil [2002] by Keith R. A. DeCandido ( w/ Jesse Hassenger )
  2. Gorgo by Carson Bingham ( w/ Mark Stay and Rusteen Honardoost )
  3. BONUS: Darkman 2 – The Return of Durant ( w/ John Cribbs )
  4. Masters of the Universe [2026] by Steve Behling
  5. Darkman : The Hangman by Randall Boyll ( w/ John Cribbs )

Ivy Ngeow on the Creative Difference Livestream

Ivy Ngeow is the award-winning author of The American Boyfriend, Heart of Glass, White Crane Strikes, Overboard and more, she writes gripping, page-turning fiction and she’s also a musician and expert on interior design and can probably solve world peace. She is definitely an author that you’ll want to catch live as she is a ton of fun.

Join us live: WEDNESDAY 12TH AUGUST, 8PM BST

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