Nicky Moey

Nicky Moey
Born	1964
Ethnicity	Han Chinese
Citizenship	Singaporean
Period	1986 - 1992
Notable work(s)	Songs of Suspense

Nicky Moey is a Singaporean writer, best known for his collections of fiction stories.^[1]

Career

Nicky Moey was born on 26 April 1964. In his growing-up years, he spent his leisure playing marbles, flying kites, catching fighting spiders and keeping a variety of pets. He took an interest in reading when he was fourteen and began writing stories at nineteen. In 1986 Nicky published his first book, Let's Play Games (Times Books International); this collection of 13 short stories, which range from horror to crime to fantasy, was in 1990 re-issued as Pontianak: 13 Chilling Tales.^[2] The Singapore Police commissioned him to dramatise some of their cases, which were published in 1987 in the book, 999: True Cases from the CID (Times Books International). This was followed in 1988 by another collection of fiction stories, Sing a Song of Suspense (Times Books International), re-issued as Songs of Suspense in 1990. In 1991, commissioned by the Shell Group of Companies in Singapore, he wrote their commemorative book, The Shell Endeavour: First 100 years in Singapore (Times Editions) and a year later had his first novel Princess of Darkness (Times Books International) published. In January 1994 Nicky published his third collection of fiction stories, Army Ghost Stories and Other Tales (Promethean Integrated). His latest collection of stories is Lurking In the Dark (2003) (Promethean Integrated), which comprises three new stories and some stories selected from Sing a Song of Suspense and Army Ghost Stories. Nicky has also written articles for 8 Days, NTUC Lifestyle and Accent. Nicky is a former student of Sembawang Hills Estate School (1971–1976), Raffles Institution (1977–1980) and National Junior College (1981–1982). He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the National University of Singapore in 1989. He is currently working in one of Singapore's premier educational institutions as a corporate communications manager.^[3][4]

References

1. ^ Yamada, Teri Shaffer (2009-01-01). Modern short fiction of Southeast Asia: a literary history. Association for Asian Studies, Inc.. pp. 228–. ISBN 9780924304521. http://books.google.com/books?id=1j8LAQAAMAAJ. Retrieved 10 May 2011. 
2. ^ "Nicky Moey (Author of Song of Suspense)". http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1947099.Nicky_Moey. Retrieved 04/09/2011. 
3. ^ "QLRS Contributor: Nicky Moey". 2011. http://www.qlrs.com/contributor.asp?id=Nicky%20Moey. Retrieved 04/09/2011. 
4. ^ "GetCited: First 100 Years in Singapore". 2006. http://www.getcited.org/pub/103068084. Retrieved 04/09/2011. 

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Name	Moey, Nicky
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Date of birth	1964
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