By CHUAH GUAT ENG
In my earlier survey of the local publishing scene in 1965-1993, I noted that it was only between 1976 and 1984 that Malaysian novels in English (MNEs) were published by locally based mainstream publishers. The rest of the time, novelists had to resort to foreign small presses or self-publishing. One of the consequences is that the self-published books are now mostly forgotten and unread.
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