Buzz Marketing with Blogs: Day 2 in Asia

Day 2 in Asia

The big event for today was a talk I gave in the MPH Bookstore in the Mid Valley Megamall (Asia’s biggest mall!). This store was huge. Vast. And crowded. I’ve been in large bookstores before, but never one where there were so many bookcases packed in. This place had books.

My talk went well; I spoke for about an hour and hopefully managed not to make a fool of myself. Travis took a bunch of pictures that don’t leave me with much room to believe that, but no one laughed, so that’s OK. I did get a fair number of questions, and good ones, so it became a nice back-and-forth, better than I’ve had in some classrooms!

My thanks to Wiley marketing exec Lai Wai Ching who arranged the event, and ferried me over to it, and then poured a drink into me afterward.

On the sightseeing front, Travis and I went to the Petronas Twin Towers. You may recall these as the tallest buildings in the world. In fact, they are now the second-tallest. They are enormous. You can go up to the skybridge between them but we were too late to get tickets that didn’t conflict with the book talk later, so we’ll try that again on Monday. In the afternoon we went to Chinatown and resisted the temptation to buy bootleg versions of nearly every movie in the theaters right now.

In case you were wondering, Malaysia is hot, at least by my Canadian heat tolerance-weakened self. Hot and muggy.

Posted by Susannah Gardner on 09/17 at 03:55 PM • About the Book(s)

Comments

Congrats! on your speech. By the way, I’m enjoying your on the spot posts. Good luck with your workshop - as they say in show biz...break a leg!

Posted by Toby on 09/18/05 at 07:44 AM
Hii - Congratulations on your book talk! My name is Darren Lee and I represend Xfresh - Malaysia’s Premier Teen Community.... just wondering if you still be around this week… it will be cool if we could arrange an interview and feature an article about your book in Xfresh… our office is at Astro - the biggest media broadcast station in Malaysia.. =) send me an email and phone me at +6012-2116172 cya!

Posted by Darren Lee on 09/18/05 at 08:42 PM
Always heard people talking about blogs, but never really paid much attention on it. Err..well..am just not the kinda tech person ..until a day before the book-talk event that I forced myself to pick up Susie’s book and read. Just wanted to make sure at least i know what does the word “blog” mean.. u bet..it came from the words “web-log”.. i did my last min homework, ok... For futher details, go and read Susie’s book

Thank you, Susie, for willing to spare your time with us. Hope u and Travis had had a good time here.

Hi Darren, Susie and Travis were here just for couple of days. They had just left for Spore, 945pm flight..

Posted by wai ching on 09/19/05 at 08:06 AM
geeez Radio Shows! Talk about celebrity Whats next hollywood? Perhaps some acting classes in order..jk. Well deserved and what a great motivation for the rest to start blogging

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Posted by Los Angeles Acting School on 09/09/06 at 04:06 PM