Mai Loog

The author of "Mango Maiden," Mai Loog, is an Estonian writer and free lance journalist living and working currently in Bangkok, Thailand.

Mai Loog got her Ph.D. in sociolinguistics at Tampere University, Finland.

"Mango Maiden" is her first fiction novel.

So far she has 6 non-fiction books published in Estonian, English and Finnish languages:

1. Mai Loog: Esimene Eesti Slängi Sõnaraamat Tallinn, 1991 i.e. First Estonian Slang Dictionary , 175-pages, paperback. The slang dictionary  has been available on Internet for public editing and entry adding since 1995, and the database of Estonian slang has been growing since on daily basis.

2. Mai Loog, Indrek Hein: Studies of Estonian Slang in Tallinn Spring 1989 ; Tampere, 1992

3. Mai Loog: Nende sõnad, sõned. , Tampere, 1992 (Gender related study of development of verbal skills of youth )

4. Mai Loog, Krista Kerge: Tuul Tiibades (Estonian Vantage – i.e. description of advanced level Estonian requirements for foreigners living in Estonia according to EU standards ), Tallinn, 1999

5. Mai Loog, Karin Dean: Tai - naeratuste maa , Tallinn, Pegasus, 2005; 208-pages. Travel book with personal twist on Thailand

6. Mai Loog: Minu Tai , Tallinn, Petrone Print, 2008 (My Thailand. As a Blue-Black-White Bunny in an eternal summer.---- An autobiography of the author as a `Bunny Girl` in Bangkok 2004-2008 - introduction of some ideas behind Mango Maiden)

Plus over 800 articles in Estonia’s newspapers and magazines in 1997-2009 about economy, social issues, politics and travel in East- and South-East Asia.

After the launch of Minu Tai (My Thailand) book there has been many articles on and by Mai Loog in Estonian media.

Please see an overview from the photo folder Mai in Media 2009 presented at her Facebook account:

 But   will definitely give more links to my articles in earlier years.

 She has been promoting and testing her ideas behind Mango Maiden on 3 pages on Myspace with quite significant success in terms of views and worldwide response for the original

   `mango_mai` teaser page.  Mai Mood

One of the pages is an audio-visual project on Myspace Music:

And the latest one is "Mango Maiden" book promo page. It`s latest beacuse the right url address was not available earlier. At this page you can find a short background of the book, the very beginning of the book - story "Orange Fever" - and finally the Word from the Author - please see

   Mango Maiden at myspace

The same Mango Maiden / Mai Mood ideas in electronic music tracks and music videos are on Noisehead where Mai herself is as an essence of ..

  Mai Mood

And finally, the short manifesto of her ideas along with all music videos are up at Saatchi gallery web site:

  Mai Loog @saatchigallery.com