I started writing to document my 10-year journey with the Workers’ Party of Singapore about a month after GE2020 when a publisher accepted my outline and two draft chapters. Then I wrote furiously for three weeks and further went through another three months of many edits with the publisher, fact checking with many whom I wrote about and quoted in the book, as well as speaking with former political desk journalists, political analysts and even vocal critiques of the WP to see what else I should cover in the book.
Am thankful for many endorsements from Party leaders, from former PAP MPs, former NMPs, political analysts and friends, as well as the warm reception to the book since it hit the bookstores just around Christmas of 2020, making to the Straits Times Top 10 Bestsellers list several times. I was also interviewed and reported by The Straits Times, Today Online, Zaobao, Mothership.sg and The Online Citizen. I was also involved in several webinars, live sessions and forums such as by World Scientific, Mothership.sg, Teh Tarik with Walid, Future of Singapore roundtable and more. I am putting the links to various coverage and the events here for search convenience.
1. Preview put by World Scientific:
https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/12096
2. Some publicity / press coverage:
a. straits times: Ex-NCMP’s new book reveals details on WP’s inner workings
b. Netizens tease Yee Jenn Jong: How did you get Tharman to become a “man in blue”?
c. Mothership interview: In 2011, Workers’ Party’s Yee Jenn Jong defied his parents & wife to enter opposition politics. Now, he’s stepping aside.
d. Today Online News: WP’s Yee Jenn Jong hopes new book will spark more political discussion in Singapore
e. Instagram Live interview by Professor Walid; Walid J. Abdullah on Instagram: “WP’s Yee Jenn Jong discusses his book,
f. Extract of book on the leadership challenge in WP in 2016: The lead up to Low Thia Khiang stepping down as WP’s Sec-Gen, as told by party insider Yee Jenn Jong
g. Roundtable talk by Yee JJ, Remy Choo and Kirsten Han: Mothership Presents: Open Secrets
h. Video interview with Mothership: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=410166756770501
i. Webinar by World Scientific: Beyond Party Politics: Beyond Party Politics: The Private and People Sectors in the 2020s
Beyond Party Politics: The Private and People Sectors in the 2020s
j. The Online Citizen: Yee Jenn Jong’s book of his ten year political career in Workers’ Party is a must read for aspiring politicians in the alternative camp – The Online Citizen Asia
k. My self-made Youtube video introducing Journey in Blue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyad86dLgEA
m. Lianhe Zaobao
I have met many people to present the book to or to sign on the book they had purchased. Am putting the photos from these here too for convenience (apologies if I missed out on some as my photos are documented here from many sources).
Yee Jenn Jong 