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  • The Next/Last Airbender

    The Next/Last Airbender

    Warning: I have watched the entirety of the Netflix adaptation of Avatar: the Last Airbender. While this post isn’t heavy on the details, if you haven’t watched yet, I would suggest you do so without my personal opinion coloring your reception of the new show. Aren’t there enough people out there telling you what to Read more

  • Sailing Across the Finish Line in Style

    Sailing Across the Finish Line in Style

    No, oh, not me. Haha. Although, we did just finish the latest set of revisions on Blood Jade in record time, and I must say that I’m really happy with how the sequel to Ebony Gate came out. Just as with the first book in the Phoenix Hoard series, working with our editor, Claire, has Read more

  • Nostalgia 2.0 – New and Improved

    Nostalgia 2.0 – New and Improved

    Have you ever wished you could go back and reread a book for the first time again?  It was somewhere during middle school or high school that I first read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. I loved the entire trilogy of four books from my very first read. At that time Read more

  • Sometimes You Can Go Home Again

    Sometimes You Can Go Home Again

    I grew up in the era when, if you wanted to watch cartoons, you either had to (a) rush home from school to catch them in the afternoon, or (b) wake up early on Saturday morning. Now in retrospect, the 1980s cartoons were clearly wholesale 30-minute advertisements for toys, but that didn’t diminish my enjoyment Read more

  • Reflections on Launch Week

    Reflections on Launch Week

    As I write this blog entry (for this sorely neglected blog) Ebony Gate has been out in the world for just over two weeks. In those two weeks, I have traveled nearly the entire length of the west coast of the US, stretching from Seattle, WA and down to San Diego, CA. My first stop Read more

  • A.B.C.

    A.B.C.

    I’m not sure at what age I was that I learned the term ABC, or American Born Chinese, but I knew that it applied to me, a child of parents who had immigrated to the US from Taiwan. To me, growing up in a predominantly non-Asian environment, it meant that I was one of two Read more