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...]
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...]
Kicking off the Year of the Horse
Chinese New Year will be here in a week and a half, but it's not too early to start celebrating!I'm going to talk to three groups of kids about the Year of the Horse, starting this Saturday with my Girl Scout Daisies troop. The girls will get some fun, girly souvenirs at the … [Read more...]