AAPI Book of the Day, Asian Urban Fantasy
Just kidding. It’s officially called Untethered Sky, but I love that she called it Murderbird in a tweet during her launch week. We were already big fans of Fonda Lee here at our Sixth Moon Press because Jade City was a comp for Ebony Gate. It was with much...
Asian Myth, Asian Urban Fantasy
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...
Asian Urban Fantasy, On Writing
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...
Asian Urban Fantasy, On Writing, Phoenix Hoard of SF
So in the hellscape that was 2020, we wrote Ebony Gate. Ken and I are delighted that Tor bought the trilogy. Our girl Emiko will be coming to your bookstore in July of 2023! Tor.com’s announcement here. Finding an editor who championed our work was a dream come...
Asian Myth, Asian Urban Fantasy
Friends, I am delighted to be able to share a story about a hungry little Fox on this coldest night of the year. On brand for me, dumplings are involved—the tangyuan that my family makes for Winter Solstice. ...
Asian Urban Fantasy, Futuristic Fiction, On Writing, Urban Fantasy Stories
MEET ROXY AND THE SEATTLE SLAYERS When you write contemporary fantasy, your mind goes to strange places. I started picturing this post-apocalyptic Seattle where magic governed and vampires ran rampant terrorizing the local population. A lot of things began to flow...
Asian Urban Fantasy, Urban Fantasy Stories
I stayed up late one night last week to finish Monkey Around by Jadie Jang. For a SF Bay Area native like me (who also happened to go to Cal) Monkey Around is an insider story filled with delightful local secrets. Add that to the fact that I also love contemporary...
Asian Urban Fantasy, On Writing, Urban Fantasy Stories
I read a lot of Urban Fantasy. I read broadly but UF is probably my favorite. As a reader, I was totally unaware of publishing trends. But in the last few years I’ve had to learn a lot more about publishing and then I started to hear that “urban fantasy is...
Asian Urban Fantasy, On Storytelling, On Writing
So today I learned from interview with author Piper Drake about the Korean manwha Full House. Apparently Full House was so popular in the 90’s that it spawned manga/anime and a series of remakes. Goodreads can be a scary place for authors but in this case it was...
