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Jamie Ford
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On the heels of the finalized cover for Songs of Willow Frost we now have (timpani roll) the full cover for the Advance Reader's Edition (ARE). What is an ARE? It's the early look at Willow, occasional typo and all, that goes out to librarians, booksellers, and lucky book clubbers—the patrons of the Panama Hotel, so to speak.
And as soon as I get my mitts on some I'll muster up some kind of cont...
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
— published 2009 — 51 editions |
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Songs of Willow Frost
— expected publication 2013 — 6 editions |
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Hotel Angeline
by Elizabeth George, Garth Stein (Goodreads Author), Jennie Shortridge (Goodreads Author) — published 2011 — 7 editions |
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Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology
by Jeff Yang , Keith Chow , Parry Shen — published 2008 — 3 editions |
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Jamie Ford
"I remember what an oddity my own parents were. My dad was Chinese and my mom was Betty Crocker white—an unusual pairing in the '60s. Growing up, the only two Asian men that I knew of with Caucasian wives were Bruce Lee and my dad.
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"I remember what an oddity my own parents were. My dad was Chinese and my mom was Betty Crocker white—an unusual pairing in the '60s. Growing up, the only two Asian men that I knew of with Caucasian wives were Bruce Lee and my dad.
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“The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.”
― Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
― Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
“I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.”
― Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
― Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
“Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces.”
― Jamie Ford
― Jamie Ford
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“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
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...February 15, 2010 to February, 2010...Jamie Ford will be on hand to answer questions and talk about his debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter...more
Hatrack River Writers Workshop
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For those who participate on the Hatrack River Writers Workshop forum, or would like to join in. We discuss published books on the forum, but we can s...more
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Amathonthe
Oct 08, 2012 10:10pm
Hi, Jamie. I just finished reading your book in Indonesian translate. And I love it. It's so sweet yet sad.
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Melanie wrote: "Hi Jamie...I just finished reading Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and I loved it!"Thanks Melanie!
