The New York Times printed an article today about luxury hotels in China (including Hong Kong).Call me old-fashioned, but I kind of miss the old school hotels in Hong Kong. Sure, I like luxury just as much as the next person, but when it comes to hotels, there's something to … [Read more...]
Flight 001
I'm back from a refreshing trip to New York. Three days of shopping and eating does a body good.On Friday, while trying to dodge the throngs of tourists in Soho, I came across Flight 001, a funky travel store. I'd seen online ads for this store during various web searches for … [Read more...]
New York mini-break
I'll be taking a break from this site for several days while I jet off to New York for a little R&R with my three sisters-in-law.Since winning the Good Reads' raffle for Jean Kwok's debut novel, Girl in Translation, I've been saving it to read on this trip. The story … [Read more...]
Book giveaway!
I just received my copy of IMPRINT 2010, the Hong Kong Women in Publishing Society's annual anthology.I've been contributing to IMPRINT for several years and for the past few have held an 'editorial' position, which really just amounts to coming up with a quotation for the … [Read more...]
Kowloon–Canton Railway
When I was at a writing conference a couple years ago, a presenter jumped off his desk after I read from the first page of my manuscript."I love train stations," he exclaimed. "But you have to bring us to China. Let us see, hear, and smell it."I've since scrapped that … [Read more...]
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