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May 5, 2023
AAPI Book of the Day – Two from Emma Mieko Candon!
I know I’m a day late, but how could I resist more Star Wars? Emma’s take on Star Wars in this richly imagined universe is definitely a fan favorite. I hope you’ve watched The Duel�� so you can fully appreciate this novelization in Ronin. (Also, the newest season of Visions just released!) But the original […]
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May 4, 2023
AAPI Book of the Day – STAR WARS: Brotherhood by Mike Chen
Happy May 4th! So even though the most recent book I’ve read from Mike Chen is Vampire Weekend, I had to post about Star Wars: Brotherhood. I love Mike’s total devotion to this franchise. The story arc in Brotherhood is what really breaks your heart when you know later how it all ends when Obi […]
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May 3, 2023
AAPI Book of the Day – Shinji Takahashi and the Mark of the Coatl by Julie Kagawa
It’s really enjoyable curating this AAPI booklist. It’s no coincidence so many are middle grade fiction. For one thing, I love reading MG and now that I have a tween, it’s nice to read these together! For those of you who love the movie up, I think we can agree that Russell is one of […]
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May 2, 2023
AAPI Book of the Day – American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
I read this book back in 2007 when it came out. It was groundbreaking stuff, a coming of age story mixed with the Monkey King. Gene Luen Yang really tackles the hard stuff about growing up an ABC kid in America and the burning desire to fit in.�� It’s wonderful to see that it’s getting […]
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May 1, 2023
AAPI Book of the Day – Zachary Ying and The Dragon Emperor
It’s amazing to me that when I was kid, all I had was 5 Chinese Brothers (which meant a lot to me despite the modern lens of seeing how problematic it was) but now I can literally talk about 30 books for the month of May. I love middle grade and Xiran Jay Zhao’s book […]
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March 30, 2023
Booksellers, the Lifeblood of Publishing at CALIBA 2023 Spring Forum
Yesterday I thought I thought I would be all fired up because of seeing EBONY GATE in print, and I was, but turns out what really fired me up yesterday was meeting so many booksellers, meeting other authors, and just being surrounded by people who love books. The California Independent Bookseller Alliance (NorCal) Spring forum […]
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February 23, 2023
SFWC is a wrap!
This was my second year speaking at panels for San Francisco Writer’s Conference. I love the venue and the high energy level of the attendees is infectious. In 2022, I spoke on the following at SFWC: So You Want to Write Science Fiction (San Francisco Writers Conference, SF, CA) with Ken Bebelle, Kimberly Unger, SF […]
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December 30, 2022
2022 – Julia’s Year in Review
Reading: In 2022, I read a lot. That’s not a surprise. I have been doing that year after year without prompting or goals. My kindle app says I have been reading on it for 165 weeks in a row, which is over 3 years. This year, it says I read 65 books. That number does […]
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September 12, 2022
The Art of Ebony Gate
I wrote a mega post about DragonCon and decided I should break it up into chunks. The big thing that stood out for me during this event was THE ART. I couldn’t get over the art. There were four floors of Art and assorted cool things at the America’s Mart and then inside the Hyatt […]
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September 7, 2022
Meet Your Fighter – Akhil the Lightbringer
As Roxy struggles through her Trials to join the Seattle Slayers, she is guided by some of their finest. Meet Akhil the Lightbringer. “He set down the cleaver and fanned out his hands about shoulder-width apart. He began humming and I found myself relaxing. The adrenaline of battling that beast slowly dissipated and I was […]
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