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...]
Janet Brown
I first came into contact with Janet Brown through a serendipitous e-mail. The publisher of Things Asian Press had so generously sent me some children's books and guidebooks. He put me in touch with an editor at his press, who was going to arrange to send me some new releases. … [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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