Rant of the day: we had better cell phone etiquette 20 years ago.I can't go to a family function these days without interrupting someone on his/her cell phone.But back in 1994 Hong Kong, when I had this one way phone (outgoing calls)/pager, I could only make calls near a … [Read more...]
Blog Hop: My Writing Process
When Cara Lopez Lee asked me to participate in the "My Writing Process" blog tour, I didn't think twice about it. Cara is one of the reasons social networking has changed my life. I got to know her some years back from an online group for authors of Asian novels. Cara's memoir, … [Read more...]
Guest Post by Author Elsie Sze
A couple days ago I posted a review of Elsie Sze's new novel, Ghost Cave: a novel of Sarawak (Hong Kong Women in Publishing Society, 2014). Not only is this a fabulous historical novel, but it was also the winner of the inaugural Saphira Prize in 2013. Elsie has so graciously … [Read more...]
Karen Ma
Earlier this year, I reviewed Karen Ma's novel, Excess Baggage (China Books, 2013), an eye-opening story about Chinese immigrants in Japan in the early 1990s. Her book really hit home for me because I knew a Chinese professor who went to Japan around the same time and really … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Ghost Cave: a novel of Sarawak
Many years ago I traveled with my mother to Sarawak, the Malaysian part of Borneo. On that trip I learned a little about the history of Sarawak. For starters, it was ruled by the White Rajahs, a long line of British men by the surname of Brooke, for over 100 years. Sarawak also … [Read more...]
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