i commissioned a portrait of ai ling and
chen yong a while back from a digital artist,
shuangwen. she happens to be from guangxi,
the province that my mom is from! i couldn’t
be happier with it and hope to make postcards
from them to pass out as swag in the future! <3
thanks especially to courtney (ANGELFIRE,
HarperCollins/Katherine Tegan Books, 2/15/2011)
for [...]
Category Archives: silver phoenix
ai ling and chen yong by shuangwen
July 27, 2010 – 6:53 pm
happy tuesday!
July 13, 2010 – 1:37 pm
happy happy day!
i woke to sunshine for the first time
in what seems like weeks. the gray gloom
and doom was really making me grumpy!
then i found out that i won natalie’s contest
in making her laugh! (i wrote about me in
a string bikini, #cuteasiancabanaboys, and food! =)
you can read it over on her fantastic blog!
my prize is [...]
the space between
June 8, 2010 – 10:33 am
i’m a little lost and useless. i need to give
myself mindless tasks to keep sane. =)
this is how it is between revisions. on sunday,
i was able to attend harperteen’s Supernatural
Summer tour and see four fellow YA authors there.
mysterious galaxy events are always so much fun!
*kimberly derting, me, kelley armstrong,
ellen schreiber, and kim harrison.
*the turn out [...]
casting for Silver Phoenix, the movie
April 12, 2010 – 1:49 pm
okay. don’t get too excited.
only a mock casting. =) agent bill has
submitted silver phoenix to some producers
but no bites yet. of course,
like many authors, i’d love to see Silver
Phoenix made into a film–i think it’d make
a gorgeous movie. i’m not biased or anything. =p
so for fun, i decided to cast for the major roles
in the [...]
and the next six years
January 18, 2010 – 9:26 pm
i forgot to mention that i started my chinese
brush painting classes in 2001. a very frustrated,
impatient why can’t i paint beautifully right NOW
right AWAY brush art student. =)
we visited san francisco on my 30th birthday
in august 2003, when i was around seven months pregnant
with sweet pea. fotos were taken, me with my
rotund belly, but i [...]