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December 31, 2013
Book Release for Well Water Woman
Well Water Woman is now live!Well Water Woman is a personal narrative of a Chinese American female who explores and reconstructs her journey from girlhood to womanhood, spawning two generations of memories in an attempt to piece information about the life of a third generation predecessor— the paternal grandmother whom she has never personally met.
Each drop of dialogue, spoken and unspoken, contribute to the living legacy of this female ancestor through the present form or existence of the granddaughter.
This short memoir explores the inner workings of spirit through the cycle of birth, life, death, and eternity.
Amazon.com: http://amzn.to/19AucKo
Amazon.co.uk: http://amzn.to/1fZL7EH
Goodreads: http://bit.ly/1he7ZDX
Smashwords: http://bit.ly/KioNw7
More online booksellers to follow in the coming weeks! Happy New Year!
December 26, 2013
Cover Reveal for Short Memoir
Hot off the presses!Behold...
...the front cover for the forthcoming short memoir
to debut no later than New Year's Day,
January 1, 2014!
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December 25, 2013
Kwanzaa Blitz Writer's Challenge
Photo by Martin Thomas Okay, so these seven candles are not quite the kind that often find themselves in a Kwaanzaa celebration. Yes, I know how unsettling this may look. However, as the spirit of the holidays moves through us and that inner sanctum can never quite fully be represented in the material world, I will take the liberty to indulge in the spirit represented by the seven candles. Kwanzaa is a Swahili word that literally means the "first fruits of harvest."
So here I am, on Christmas Day, wondering what I have to show for 2013 as a nonfiction writer. Well, looks like I have nothing so far. So imagine how it felt like to update my sad GoodReads profile, which had no author bio until I added it on Christmas Eve! As I was updating the profile and adding my latest author pic, I reflected about my 2013 advance as an author. Although I dabbled in a fiction genre (genre and pen name to remain undisclosed), part of me was not ready to just remain in the world of fiction and give up non-fiction entirely. I felt sad I had nothing to show for this year yet in the nonfiction arena.
Thus, I came up with my own personal writer's challenge: create an ebook by 11:59 P.M., Tuesday, December 31, 2013. That way, I can celebrate an accomplishment by New Year's Day 2014!
Think I can do it?
Yes, I can!!! The challenge starts now!!!
Kwaanzaa Blitz Writer's Challenge
Photo by Martin Thomas Okay, so these seven candles are not quite the kind that often find themselves in a Kwaanzaa celebration. Yes, I know how unsettling this may look. However, as the spirit of the holidays moves through us and that inner sanctum can never quite fully be represented in the material world, I will take the liberty to indulge in the spirit represented by the seven candles. Kwaanzaa is a Swahili word that literally means the "first fruits of harvest."
So here I am, on Christmas Day, wondering what I have to show for 2013 as a nonfiction writer. Well, looks like I have nothing so far. So imagine how it felt like to update my sad GoodReads profile, which had no author bio until I added it on Christmas Eve! As I was updating the profile and adding my latest author pic, I reflected about my 2013 advance as an author. Although I dabbled in a fiction genre (genre and pen name to remain undisclosed), part of me was not ready to just remain in the world of fiction and give up non-fiction entirely. I felt sad I had nothing to show for this year yet in the nonfiction arena.
Thus, I came up with my own personal writer's challenge: create an ebook by 11:59 P.M., Tuesday, December 31, 2013. That way, I can celebrate an accomplishment by New Year's Day 2014!
Think I can do it?
Yes, I can!!! The challenge starts now!!!
October 5, 2011
My Pre-Write Begins
I LOVE the local public library. I find kindred spirits on shelves that are not mine (thank goodness or my house will be flooded with books from floor to ceiling, room to room!), kindred spirits who create community within and beyond their locale. By finding out from another reader just what she read brings me closer to her and the book's author. Books are so beautiful in that they are a record, a document, yet a connector and community builder. Books are a source of continual dialogue. I can read and reread a book and find new things.
Recently I have been reading of other writer mamas who have simultaneously launched their writing careers and their parenting lives. Reading about their experiences are so inspirational to me, for it was motherhood that prompted me to take my writing seriously.
Today I finally feel that I have found my mission to write the book that has been emerging from the depths of my life, a book that has been marinating in prenatal juices so deep that it was previously unforeseen. Today I welcome the coming of October 5, 2012, when a year from now I would have nearly completed my first book--the one that really matters to me, the one that only I can write.
I will be sharing my journey with you.
Recently I have been reading of other writer mamas who have simultaneously launched their writing careers and their parenting lives. Reading about their experiences are so inspirational to me, for it was motherhood that prompted me to take my writing seriously.
Today I finally feel that I have found my mission to write the book that has been emerging from the depths of my life, a book that has been marinating in prenatal juices so deep that it was previously unforeseen. Today I welcome the coming of October 5, 2012, when a year from now I would have nearly completed my first book--the one that really matters to me, the one that only I can write.
I will be sharing my journey with you.
September 17, 2011
First Post! OR Why I Prefer Blog-Free Living
After consulting with a writer and editor who has 20+ years of experience in the publishing industry, I reluctantly begin this blog. You can say much of my life before was "anti-blog" or more accurately "anti-routine" or presumptively "anti-constricted living." I would dare to go as far as to say that blogging seems to be anti-freedom.
I imagine that blogging is enslavement that leads to a life of absolutely no freedom to write whenever I fancy. I imagine that writing consistently would become machinery and the spirit of the creative process would die. I imagine that my private life would not be so private anymore.
Then again, what kind of writer does not have a writing habit to get their writing project done? What kind of writer is his or her only reader? Can writing really exist without engaging the people and the world around us or at least reflecting upon these things around us? No writer can exist in isolation.
So here I am writing the first post to this blog and wondering what the rest of these blog entries would amount to. Ultimately, for what purpose shall I write?
Since motherhood is so fascinating to me right now, my blog shall be about motherhood and how motherhood transforms me. My identity keeps shape-shifting that even the book I originally thought I would write has continued to elude me in its constant evolution. Since there are so many one-year experimental living books out there, perhaps I ought to give myself one year to figure out the final evolution of my book on motherhood.
I imagine that blogging is enslavement that leads to a life of absolutely no freedom to write whenever I fancy. I imagine that writing consistently would become machinery and the spirit of the creative process would die. I imagine that my private life would not be so private anymore.
Then again, what kind of writer does not have a writing habit to get their writing project done? What kind of writer is his or her only reader? Can writing really exist without engaging the people and the world around us or at least reflecting upon these things around us? No writer can exist in isolation.
So here I am writing the first post to this blog and wondering what the rest of these blog entries would amount to. Ultimately, for what purpose shall I write?
Since motherhood is so fascinating to me right now, my blog shall be about motherhood and how motherhood transforms me. My identity keeps shape-shifting that even the book I originally thought I would write has continued to elude me in its constant evolution. Since there are so many one-year experimental living books out there, perhaps I ought to give myself one year to figure out the final evolution of my book on motherhood.
