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Recent Posts: The Sun Rises in the East
Impressions of Laura VanArendonk Baugh’s Traditional Japanese Novella Kitsune-Tsuki
Another American author featured as a speaker at the recent virtual World Fantasy Con 2020 is Laura VanArendonk Baugh, and when I saw she had a few books set in Japan, I was intrigued since I love the East Asian fox myth and have written some far less traditional books featuring them myself. The first […]
The Life and Works of Korean Author Kim Dongni
This year on my main blog, the Ice Pine Palace (see links in the left column here for my affiliate blogs), my Literati Corner selection will be a novella and short stories by a very famous Korean author. Kim Dongni (김동리金東里) was born in 1913 in the historical city of Gyeongju in North Gyeongsang Province, […]
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The Life and Works of Korean Author Kim Dongni
This year on my main blog, the Ice Pine Palace (see links in the right column here for my affiliate blogs), my Literati Corner selection will be a novella and short stories by a very famous Korean author. Kim Dongni (김동리金東里) was born in 1913 in the historical city of Gyeongju in North Gyeongsang Province, […]
Sohyeon After Midnight Book Reading Videos and Character Roll-Call
I had some time this weekend to prepare a few videos for everyone to enjoy. The first video is my character roll-call, which I made for my readers who have been struggling to pronounce my characters’ names in a couple of my novels. Character Roll-Call: Then I prepared a three-part series of me reading selections […]
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Author Archives: Lady Xiansa
Tangled Relations and Secret Parentage Revealed! – Queen Seondeok, Vol. 2 – Part 3
Continuing with the last part of volume 2 from Eunkyeong Ryu’s series Queen Seondeok (류은경의 “선덕여왕”), I’m going to skip chapter 6, “A Blossoming Flower on the Battlefield,” since it mostly has to do with Deokman and Kim Yusin’s Hwarang … Continue reading
Virtual Conference Flights of Foundry Coming Up May 16th & 17th
Next weekend, I’ll be participating in the virtual Dealers’ Room of online speculative fiction conference Flights of Foundry, which readers can get the scoop on and register for here: https://flights-of-foundry.org Programming for the event is set for May 16th and … Continue reading
Kim Yushin’s Special Hwarang Squad – Queen Seondeok, Vol. 2 – Part 2
Continuing with more of volume 2 from Eunkyeong Ryu’s series Queen Seondeok (류은경의 “선덕여왕”), we pick up the action with chapter 3, “Yonghwa Hyangdo: Kim Yushin’s Hwarang Squad.” In the first scene, we see Kim Yusin with his Hwarang squad … Continue reading
Hidden Crimes and the Fragility of Human Nature
I got the review from Kirkus on the final volume of The Lucky Cat Series, and this obviously was written by someone different from the reviewer of the first three books, which is what happens at that organization. They even … Continue reading
Lucky Cat and the Gods of War Book Reading Videos
In honor of the postponed Steel City Con that was supposed to be this past weekend, I got more videos reading excerpts from my Lucky Cat Series finished. I did a more limited cosplay in this one, too, to keep … Continue reading
Lucky Cat Chews Up the Scenery on Story Monsters At Home and New Reading Videos
I recently put together a new series of book reading videos in my special Snow Maiden cosplay for volume 2 of The Lucky Cat Series, Lucky Cat and Snow Maiden’s Vengeance. Here are the video links: Part 1 Part 2 … Continue reading
Kaiju Unleashed! Free E-Book Giveaway For March Only
It’s done! My final volume of the Lucky Cat Series, Lucky Cat and the Kaiju Horde, is now available in print and e-book formats at Amazon.com: (Did that link show up properly? If not, you can head on up to … Continue reading
2020 Schedule and Publication News
I’m going a little slow on my reading schedule for this blog for the moment as I get the final volume of The Lucky Cat Series finished up. I should be done with that in a few weeks along with … Continue reading
Slaughter at Yeoraesa Temple and the Search for Munno – Queen Seondeok, Vol. 2 – Part 1
We’re kicking off 2020 by returning to last year’s Korean selection, Eunkyeong Ryu’s Queen Seondeok (류은경의 “선덕여왕”), which is a novelized version of the Korean TV show by the same name. This story comes in a three volume set, and … Continue reading
An Ominous Murder Attempt – Land, Vol.6, Part 6
I’m going to quickly finish up this volume of the second story arc of Kyeongni Park’s Land series (박경리의《토지》) this time. The rest of part 5 has 10 more chapters to review, which is the end of the story arc. … Continue reading