About The Author

Kam Raslan is a writer and director, working in film, TV and theatre in Malaysia. He is a columnist in The Edge weekly and Off the Edge magazine. His writings were previously compiled in Generation: A Collection of Contemporary Malaysian Ideas. He also writes for the Instant Cafe Theatre and will one day make his own feature film.

Confessions of an Old Boy: The Dato' Hamid Adventures is Kam's first book and is available at major bookstores in Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei, and is also available online at Amazon.com

If you wish to contact Kam Raslan, email to:
kam at kamraslan dot com.

Confessions of an Old Boy: The Dato' Hamid Adventures

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Kam Raslan: Readings and Other Appearances

6th MPH Breakfast Club for LitBloggers
MPH Bangsar Village II
11:00 a.m., Saturday, 28 July 2007

At the 6th MPH Breakfast Club for LitBloggers event on Saturday, 28 July 2007, Kam Raslan gave the following status report on the sales of Confessions of an Old Boy: The Dato' Hamid Adventures to date:
  • the book has sold a respectable number of copies (4-figure number)
  • the book has charted on the best sellers' lists in various bookstores, including MPH, Borders and Kinokuniya
  • the book has yet to outsell Harry Potter

Full reports on the event at Sharon Bakar's bibliobibuli blog and Eric Forbes' Good Books Guide blog. Picture taken from Sharon's report.

Kam Raslan's Confessions of an Old Boy: The Dato' Hamid Adventures (ISBN 978 983 3445 00 4) was first serialized in Off the Edge magazine and is published by Marshall Cavendish Editions, an imprint of Marshall Cavendish International.

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