The South China Morning Post included The Year of Fog in its year-end roundup of “ultimate recession-proof gifts:” An unusually imaginative novel of family, loss and hope, The Year of Fog tackles mysteries of time, memory and the human heart. ~Stephen McCarty Having spent a month in Hong Kong back in 1998, and having vivid memories of combing the English-language bookshop near one of the ferry terminals in Kowloon for something to stave off the heat and loneliness of a Hong Kong summer, it was quite a treat for me to come across this item in the SCMP. You...
The Year of Fog
Today at Foothill College
I’ll be talking about THE YEAR OF FOG and NO ONE YOU KNOW today at Foothill College in Los Altos. Details here. This event is free and open to the public. When: Noon Where: Campus Center Student Lounge Both books will be available for twenty percent off the cover price.
Someone please tell me…
that I did not really dance in public to Hey Mickey. Props to Adam Davis‘s wife Robin for the Zoomba demo, and to Celine Buffkin for the hair et. al. George, please email me the elevator story. Stephen Hazelwood said what to that cop? Congrats to Ruthie S., who is joining the class of 88′s rather large cadre of mothers-of-twins. Jason Clement still has the moves: no one’s bones should still be able to handle that at our age. Joe Gaston is still a contender for Nicest Guy on the Planet. I want to see Debbie Umbarger and husband...
Muhammad: The Taboo-du-Jour
Apparently there’s a hot new taboo out there in the publishing industry: Muhammad. In this disturbing Wall Street Journal opinion piece,Asra Q. Nomani describes how concern over possible offense to Muslims and fear of terrorist threats led Ballantine to cancel the publication of Sherry Jones’s debut novel THE JEWEL OF MEDINA, “a tale of lust, love and intrigue in the prophet Muhammed’s harem.” Nomani’s article traces the trouble back to Denise Spellberg, an associate professor of Islamic history at the University of Texas in Austin, who, after receiving a galley of the book in April, made a “frantic” phone...
Another One Bites the Dust
Today at Ghost Word, Frances Dinkelspiel reports extensively on what’s happening to the Los Angeles Times. A while back there was talk of the death of the novel. Well, that never happened, and I seriously doubt it will anytime in the near future. Who knows, we may all go Kindle, but I do believe the novel is alive and well for a long time coming. The death of newspapers, however, is real, and it is very much upon us. Ten years from now, will newspapers be a thing of the past? When I talk to newspaper folks at parties,...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
