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Jamie Ford
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Man, this has been a crazy week for interviews. Two radio, one print, and one online 20 Questions type of deal. If you're bored and want to play along, you'll find it right ------->> Here.
In other news, I've crossed the 50,000 word mark on the new novel. Still no title yet. But soon, very soon...
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
   390 avg rating — 53444 ratings
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2009
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Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology
by Jeff Yang , Keith Chow , Parry Shen 361 avg rating — 83 ratings
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2008
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Hotel Angeline
by Elizabeth George, Garth Stein (Goodreads Author), Jennie Shortridge (Goodreads Author)  313 avg rating — 109 ratings
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2011
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February 2009,
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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"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."
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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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Melanie wrote: "Hi Jamie...I just finished reading Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and I loved it!"Thanks Melanie!
