February, 2010

Contest at Market My Words

For all of you who don’t frequent Shelli Johannes’ site (and why don’t you?), check it out this week. She’s got two different contests running, but both involve give aways and agent critiques. A word for the wise, though. Make sure you visit on Monday and return every day this week as it will increase your chances of winning. 🙂 Good luck to all of us!

Gung Hei Fat Choy!

Happy Spring Festival, all! I had hoped to have a new book review prepared by tomorrow as my New Years gift, but familial health issues have decreased my reading time. That said, have a great holiday, open up those Hong Bao envelopes and toss some lettuce into the next lion’s mouth you see!

More Exciting News!

My friend, Laura Manivong, has her first book coming out in March. “Escaping The Tiger” is a fictionalized account of her husband’s escape from communist Laos in 1992. I can’t wait for the book’s release as I’ve only seen one chapter (which enthralled me). Check out the Kansas City Star’s interview of Laura and her husband, Troy, or you can return here in a few weeks for my own interview with Laura.

Correction: This is her first novel. 🙂

Stoked

I’ve kept quiet about some of this until I knew it would happen. Several months ago I discovered a favorite author of mine, Guy Gavriel Kay, has his next novel, “Under Heaven” coming out and it’s set in Alternative World Tang Dynasty China. Once I recovered from shock (he’s always stayed in Europe before) I contacted his press agent and was given the go ahead to receive a galley for review purposes. The reviews will go up in China History Forum Online’s newsletter, The Historical Novel Review site (where I currently have “Ransom” by David Malouf reviewed), The Ron Empire, my facebook account, She Writes, GoodReads and anywhere else I can think of to put it. It hasn’t arrived yet, but I feel like a bird of prey hovering over my mailbox.

It did not come this morning. I hope it arrives by Friday as I will have two hours of mine-all-mine reading time that morning. Can we say excited? I thought we could. 🙂