oh happy happy day!
i received the actual hardcover copy of
Fury of the Phoenix in the mail today. it
never gets less amazing. seriously. and
the book is gorgeous. let me share with
you in this giddy author moment!
click for larger image, including a sneak peek
of the first page! =D
*my cover! with cassandra clare’s blurb on top.
*the binding with [...]
get prepared for a Monster post about ala midwinter,
my lovely readers!! this one was quite different than
my first in chicago, as i basically went as a fellow fangirl
of books. and since it was in my hometown, i could take
as many arcs as i’d like. i was on an arc buzz high for
days!! some of the [...]
about authors! YES! i talk behind everyone’s
back giving you the nitty gritty dirty details that
you’ve been dying to read. shhh! come closer!
i said SHHHH!
*i spent the first night escaping the disney all star
sports resort (motel). it was a nightmare and the sports
theme was totally wasted on me. it might as well have
been the All Star [...]
i’m very excited to finally share the cover
for Fury of the Phoenix, my sequel to Silver Phoenix!
wait cindy, you say, this looks different from your
debut cover. a lot different.
i know. i know!
both the Silver Phoenix paperback
(out on feb. 1, 2011) and Fury of the Phoenix
(out april 2011) have been repackaged. it’s
something that isn’t at all [...]
my mom is making a trek back to her
village in the province of guangxi next spring–
her first time back since leaving china at age five
or so. she’s been back to china since, but never
to her home village.
guangxi is where the famous and gorgeous
guilin mountains are located, immortalized by
brush painters, then tourists and their fotographs.
how i [...]