I'm so excited to feature Brianna DuMont this month! I first learned of Brianna through our rock star agent, Carrie Pestritto of Prospect Agency. I was not only super impressed with Brianna's forthcoming Middle Grade book, Famous Phonies: Legends, Fakes, and Frauds Who Changed … [Read more...]
Jocelyn Eikenburg
If I had to describe Jocelyn Eikenburg in two words, they would be Renaissance Woman. Trained as a scientist, Jocelyn moved to China on a whim 15 years ago without knowing a drop of Chinese. Completely self-taught, she is not only fluent in Mandarin, but is also an expert … [Read more...]
Nicki Chen
Nicki Chen has lived in places most of us can only dream about: verdant Washington State, where she grew up and now makes her home, but also the tropics of the Philippines and the South Pacific.Her late husband grew up on a little known island in China called Gulangyu, which … [Read more...]
Karen Ma
Earlier this year, I reviewed Karen Ma's novel, Excess Baggage (China Books, 2013), an eye-opening story about Chinese immigrants in Japan in the early 1990s. Her book really hit home for me because I knew a Chinese professor who went to Japan around the same time and really … [Read more...]
Tracy Slater
Tracy Slater's publishing story reads like a fairytale: Boston academic meets Japanese salaryman, falls in love, and leaves it all for a new life in Japan, where she becomes a housewife. A shufu.Tracy and her husband look forward to starting a family in Japan, where she's … [Read more...]
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