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Are you searching for Asian adventure stories?

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I was going to put “Asian fantasy” in the title, but then I had visions of people coming here searching for a XXX site—ugh.

4259596_blogI got a note from a reader who told me they’ve been searching for this sort of book forever and there’s not much out there. She had been going through search engines looking for Asian fantasy stories.  It’s not the first letter I’ve gotten like that either. Each one makes me hopeful. For an unpublished writer to start getting fan mail, and not from friends who love me, that must mean something right? 🙂

It was a big boost when I found an agent who was excited to go to bat for me. We’re still on that search for the  editor who believes that these stories will sell. Funny how much of an uphill battle it is to get into English language genre fiction when there’s a flood of movies, manga, anime and centuries of Asian language literature on the same themes.

Once in a while when I’m feeling blue and lonely, I do go googling for Asian fantasy fiction or wuxia. But that’s okay. I knew this was going to be hard when I started. I just have to keep improving the writing.

4245636_blogSo if you’re out there. If you’re searching too and you’ve found me. Say hello. *waves*

I truly believe there is a market and I love these stories. I’m very stubborn and somewhat patient and there’s enough stories in this genre to last another couple centuries.

First Anniversary

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“I need to get you a card when we’re at Target,” my husband says.

“You’re going to buy me an anniversary card while I’m there at the store with you? After telling me about it?”

“Well, I have to get you something paper and that’s that.”

Oh, my hubby. So romantic.

I roll my eyes. “Well I was going to get you Star Trek tickets. That’s made of paper.”

“That’s a great idea! I’ll buy your ticket and you’ll buy my ticket. And we’ll exchange.” He grins. Everything is solved, all is right with the world.

I remark about how unspontaneous this is. We can’t plan out what we’re going to give each other like this! But hubby insists that we’re just being practical, which is good.

“Well, let me tell you right now. I want something romantic for our second anniversary,” I say with a scowl.

Hubby laughs, apparently quite pleased with how everything has worked out.

He did actually order us a cake that tastes just like our wedding cake — a vanilla chiffon cake with fresh strawberries and cream filling. He didn’t believe in eating a year old wedding cake, but he did want to observe the tradition in some way. That’s my husband for you. Unassumingly romantic and annoyingly practical all at once.

We did exchange tickets inside the theater after paying individually and enjoyed our movie date night very much.