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Lloyd Lofthouse

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Born

in Southern California, The United States

Website

http://www.mysplendidconcubine.com

Genre

Literature & Fiction, History, Romance

Influences

United States Marines and a lot of books read over the decades

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June 2008

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https://www.goodreads.com/lflwriter

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Lloyd joined the United States Marines and served in Vietnam in 1966 as a field radio operator. Soon after graduating with a BA in journalism from Fresno State University, California, Lloyd started teaching English, literature, reading and journalism in the public schools from 1975 to 2005. Along the way, he enjoyed working as a maitre d' in a multi-million dollar nightclub and taught himself to count cards where he made some money in Las Vegas. If Lloyd stuck to what he learned about counting cards, he always left Vegas with more money than he arrived with. ...more

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The Release of The Concubine Saga — another Cheap Marketing Ploy

More than three years ago, on February 29, 2008, I held my first author event at Clayton Books, an independent bookstore in California near San Francisco that has since closed its doors but not because of economic hardships.

Clayton Books was still earning enough to stay open when it lost its lease and Clayton, California lost its only bookstore.

After buying an Amazon Kindle, the property's owner f Read more of this blog post »

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Published on June 26, 2011 19:34 • Tags: 19th-century-china, adventure, british-empire, china, concubines, lloyd-lofthouse, love-story, lust, opium-wars, qing-dynasty, sex, sir-robert-hart, taiping-rebellion, the-concubine-saga

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Average rating: 4.03 · 1,555 ratings · 199 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	My Splendid Concubine 3.92 avg rating — 957 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Patriot Oath: A Josh Kavanagh Thriller 4.16 avg rating — 285 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never for Glory: A Josh Kavanagh Thriller 4.49 avg rating — 120 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Hart, Elegy for a Concubine 4.14 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Running with the Enemy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crazy is Normal 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fiddling with Death: A Josh Kavanagh Thriller 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Redemption of Don Juan Casanova 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Josh Kavanagh Military-Thrillers Box Set (3 books) (The Josh Kavanagh Thrillers) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never for Glory: A Josh Kavanagh Thriller it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Josh Kavanagh Thrillers (4 books)
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“I understand foreign medicine is designed to fix a person after he is broken, but Chinese medicine focuses on how a person should live his life so he avoids getting”
― Lloyd Lofthouse, My Splendid Concubine

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