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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 17th. I also have prepared my book trailer for volume 4 of my Lucky […]
Creepy and Kawaii Stay At Home Activities, Free From Tee Turtle
I found a nice little surprise in my inbox recently that I’d like to share with my readers. One of my favorite brands, Tee Turtle, has a special page where you can download print and play versions of their creepy and kawaii (cute) card games for those bored at home. https://www.teeturtle.com/alone-together This page has four […]
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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 […]
Sohyeon After Midnight Sketch – First in a Series
I am practicing my sketching by illustrating some characters and maybe scenes out of my bilingual novel, Sohyeon After Midnight, and this is my first installment.
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The Woman Trapped in the Painting – My Girlfriend is a Nine-Tailed Fox, Part 1
This time around, our new series will focus on Jeongeun and Miran Hong’s My Girlfriend is a Nine-Tailed Fox (홍정은 & 홍미란의”내 여자친구는 구미호”). The TV show was written by the famous Hong sisters, but the novel was ghost written … Continue reading
Mai’s Dream of the Secret Room – The Bloody Labyrinth, Part 4
This time we finish our look at Fuyumi Ono’s horror novel, The Bloody Labyrinth (小野不由美の“鲜血の迷宮”). Chapter 6 begins with another report from Madoka Mori to Shibuya’s research team. They conclude that Mr. Atsugi didn’t leave the house when he disappeared. … Continue reading
A Séance By Candlelight – The Bloody Labyrinth, Part 3
This time we continue our look at Fuyumi Ono’s horror novel, The Bloody Labyrinth (小野不由美の“鲜血の迷宮”). Chapter 4 is when things really start to get good. That night at 9PM, everyone gathers in a little room near the dining room, and … Continue reading
The Rambling House & A Few Mysterious Disappearances – The Bloody Labyrinth, Part 2
This time we continue our look at Fuyumi Ono’s horror novel, The Bloody Labyrinth (小野不由美の“鲜血の迷宮”). I went back and looked at a few episodes of the anime covering this story arc, and it goes very fast and cuts out a … Continue reading
An Interfaith Team of Exorcists – The Bloody Labyrinth, Part 1
Out next book is book 5 of the Japanese horror novel series, Ghost Hunt by Fuyumi Ono, called The Bloody Labyrinth (小野不由美の“鲜血の迷宮”). This book has not been translated into English that I know of, though the series has been made … Continue reading
After Death, Their Souls Turn Into Butterflies – Dark Witch, Part 2
This time we continue our look at a novel from the detective series featuring female coroner Mia Song, Dark Witch by Erica Li Min and Atushuoli (《黑夜女巫》李敏，阿圖說力合著). Chapter 4 is the first glimpse we get of Mia Song, who is … Continue reading
The Estate of Eternal Youth – Dark Witch, Part 1
This time we start a new novel, one of the installments in a detective series about female medical examiner Mia Song. The novel we’re looking at for this series is Dark Witch by Erica Li Min and Atushuoli (《黑夜女巫》李敏，阿圖說力合著), which … Continue reading
Maupassant at the Morgue and a Cat Named Quasimodo – Jin Lee, Part 5
This time we’ll finish up part 3 of Kyung-sook Shin’s historical novel, Jin Lee (신경숙의《리진》). We only got through chapter 1 last time, and there are five more chapters remaining in this section. Chapter 2 is “A Feather Pen and … Continue reading
The Literary Salon in Le Bon Marché Department Store – Jin Lee, Part 4
This week, we’ll finish up volume 1 of Kyung-sook Shin’s historical novel, Jin Lee (신경숙의《리진》) and move on to volume 2 of the book series. One thing of note about East Asian novels is that, unlike in the US where … Continue reading
Dinner at the French Legation with Coq au Vin and Berlioz – Jin Lee, Part 3
Part 2 of Kyung-sook Shin’s historical novel, Jin Lee (신경숙의《리진》) has six chapters and runs for more than 200 pages. The structure of this section is quite a departure from Part 1. Each chapter has a letter from Collin de … Continue reading
