Jeremy Chin was born in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, and was un-outstanding through his school years. In fact he flunk out of high school on his final exam.He however obtained good grades in Junior College and secured a place at one of the world's most prestigious journalism schools, the University of Missouri-Columbia. He came away with a Bachelor of Journalism in 1998, after which he packed his world into his rust-eaten car, and drove west for two days till he reached California.
To make ends meet, he held three part-time jobs; as a telemarketer selling tax software, as a computer tutor for senior citizens (they sometimes used bagels for currency) and as a graphic designer at the Barali Group, a boutique ad agency in San Diego.
In 1999, Jeremy moved to Los Angeles as a web designer, churning out websites for some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Following the dot com bust, to save his job, he morphed into a programmer and became proficient at coding, setting up networks, managing databases and staring at black and green screens for days on end.
After 10 years in the United States, Jeremy moved to London. He found a job as a programmer at a dot com but didn't stay for long, opting to hop aboard Miller Bainbridge, a mid-sized ad agency in Central London. There he worked as a programmer and a Flash animator.
In 2007, Jeremy returned to Malaysia and assumed the role as Creative Director at Amphibia Digital, an online advertising and marketing agency. Two years later, he went on sabbatical to write FUEL, his first novel.
Jeremy Chin's freshman novel, FUEL, was launched on Dec 11, 2010. It is available globally in print and e-book formats. His poem IF, which appears in the book, has been published by the Malaysian Poetic Chronicles and the Orthodox Christians For Life in Chicago.
Don't f*ck with Mother Earth, a short story by Jeremy Chin, was published in 2011 in this collection -- Malaysian Tales: Retold & Remixed.
Despite dismal support for his book locally, Jeremy continues to fight for his dream to be a fulltime novelist. His decision to go against the grain, to not fall into society’s cookie cutter ways, have been an inspiration to the many, who just like him, yearn to follow their life’s passion.
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