![]() The artists promised me they are working very hard. We are aiming for the Christmas market this year, so hopefully there is no delay. But the heart of Epigram Books is local writing, stories about Singapore by Singaporeans.Ī few months ago, we felt why must stories be written, why not in graphic form? So we started working with artists/writers like Sonny Liew, Koh Hong Teng, Dave Chua, Troy Chin and Miel. We felt there is a great need to publish local fiction and this is our mission. If you look at theatre, poetry, they have gone ahead. Why are we doing it? We want to publish and to tell stories about ourselves as a country. This will give us a sense of the cost to edit, publish, paying the rent and employees. So it’s hard to know the real cost of publishing. We were not sure whether it’s real, the success, because it’s done as part of the design company. Along the way, we did The Diary of Amos Lee, which was very successful. One or two books a year and that’s part of Epigram the design company. Before that, we also did some publishing on an ad hoc basis. “We set up Epigram Books over a year ago. ![]() Did not manage to catch the Epigram panel at STGCC, but I went down to Epigram Books the next day to have a chat with Edmund, the boss. ![]()
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