Today is not just Valentine's Day; it's also the end of the Chinese New Year, or the Lantern Festival. It's a sweet day, a day of candy and/or sesame, peanut, or red bean glutinous rice balls.Nine years ago, I had a feeling that my then-boyfriend was going to propose. And he … [Read more...]
On branding and platform
Writers often think about two ideas integral to book selling: platform and branding.In short, a platform is a solid readership base and branding is an identifiable set of characteristics that screams "author of xyz book(s)".There is always room for improvement with both. … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
To break out of the winter doldrums, I present South Horizons.This is a housing complex on a tiny island called Ap Lei Chau, which is on the southern side of Hong Kong Island. (That's the ocean in the background.)I lived here for a summer 20 years ago. And this was the … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Woman Who Lost China
I'm always on the lookout for a good story set in Hong Kong. So it was with great delight that I recently read Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang's epic novel, The Woman Who Lost China (Open Books, 2013).While the story mainly takes place in China during WWII and the Chinese civil war, … [Read more...]
Chinese New Year with a Macanese Twist
For Chinese New Year, I had grand plans to take my husband Tom and number one son to a newish Macanese restaurant in Chicago--Fat Rice. With the babysitter lined up and the afternoon cleared of any diversions that would keep the little kids up past their bedtime, we were all … [Read more...]
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