Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang is a woman after my own heart. She first traveled to China in 1986 (when this photo was taken) at the age of 19 to study in Tianjin for a summer. Although she was reading Chinese at Oxford, her friends back in the UK thought she was crazy to go off to such … [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...]
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...]
Photo Friday
Happy Year of the Horse!This photo was taken at the end of the Year of the Horse two decades ago. Time flies!I spent that Chinese New Year in Jiangsu province, China with friends from Nanjing.Here we are in the countryside with Mr. Chen's parents and his family. Chen … [Read more...]
The cover!
The other night I was perusing Amazon and decided to check in on Good Chinese Wife to see how it was doing. Lo and behold, there was my cover!I've known about the cover for some time, but it was fun to see it on Amazon. We're still working on a catchy subtitle, so this isn't … [Read more...]
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