Collin Piprell is a Canadian writer and editor based in BangkokCollin Piprell is a Canadian writer and editor based in Bangkok. Editorial director at Artasia Press (Bangok, Phuket, and Bali), he also considers freelance assignments.

He has also lived in England, where he did graduate work at Oxford, and in Kuwait, where he learned to sail, waterski, and make a credible red wine in plastic garbage bins. Before and after the Oxford and Kuwait years, Collin enjoyed a broad sampling of the employment world, including experience as a driller and stope leader on four mining and tunneling jobs in Ontario and Quebec.

Over the past 19 years or so he has written many articles on a wide variety of topics. He is also the author of four novels, a collection of occasional pieces, a diving guide to Thailand, another book on diving, and a book on Thailand’s coral reefs. He has also co-authored a book on Thailand’s national parks.

He is currently at work on the second novel of a futuristic trilogy.  E-mail Collin Piprell

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Books by Collin Piprell

* MOM (looking for a publisher)

* The Proteant Enigmass (in process)

* Killers (a collection of stories, in process)

* Yawn (A Thriller) Bangkok: Asia Books, 2000

* Kicking Dogs (Bangkok: Asia Books, 2001)

* Bangkok Knights (Bangkok: Asia Books, 2001)

* Bangkok Old Hand (Bangkok: Post Books, 1993) Out of print.

* Diving in Thailand (Singapore: Times Editions; U.S.A.: Hippocrene Books, 1994, 2000), photographs by Ashley J. Boyd.

* Thailand’s Coral Reefs (Bangkok: White Lotus, 1993), photographs by Ashley J. Boyd.

* Thailand: The Kingdom Beneath the Sea (Bangkok: Artasia Press, 1991), photographs by Ashley J. Boyd. Out of print.

* National Parks of Thailand (Bangkok: IFPC, 1993, 1995), with Denis Gray and Mark Graham. Out of print.