Blog
June 20, 2018
I have so many life experiences now that I didn’t have when I was 18 or 28 or 38. I’m never going to run out of material and can be choosy in what I decide to write about so that it’s the best, most original, most memorable thing I can make it. And it’s all because of those decades of life experience.
June 13, 2018
It's impossible to read the title of this book and not smile. Its young heroine, Peasprout Chen, doesn’t let you down. Her voice is as cocky and self-confident as the title, the story as action-packed as the cover design suggests.
June 2, 2018
A wife fails to produce heirs, and is sidelined. What makes this story doubly sad is that this many-times-great-aunt probably felt she deserved her fate.
May 12, 2018
My editor has sent a quick note to say she’s finished reading the draft of WS and enjoyed it very much. I'm so relieved. At this point, as long as the feedback doesn’t include words such as “steaming pile of …" I'm happy.
April 29, 2018
The San Jose Amazon Bookstore is in Santana Row, a popular high-end shopping mall that also includes a Tesla dealership. Welcome to Silicon Valley.
October 31, 2017
The writing life is so different now compared to three or four years ago, when I only had one book published - especially when being a writer is a second career.