It's Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong, the season of fire dragons, moon cakes, and the first hints of fall. What are you doing to celebr...

Thank you so much to everyone who entered our giveaway over the past few weeks. Thank you, especially, to all the bloggers who posted it ...

This week I'm participating in a joint blog tour with two other authors of new memoirs set in Asia. You can enter our giveaway here. W...

This summer I'm participating in a joint blog tour with two other women who have also written memoirs about love, life, and finding...

Year of Fire Dragons , the book I started writing around when I started this blog, is finally available on Kindle ! Thank you for sticking ...

Next week I'm flying to London for the first time in four years! As many of you know, I met my husband in London during a semester ab...

I recently posted a video update on my first six months working as a full-time writer here in Hong Kong. Some of the milestones I mention in...

At the beginning of last year I wrote a post with 13 things I did in 2013 and 14 plans for 2014 . I prefer lists and planning to making reso...

Last week, Jocelyn Eikenburg of the Speaking of China blog posted a list of book recommendations that would make good gifts for people inter...

My spoils from events with X-Men writer Marjorie Liu, expat novelist Brittani Sonnenberg, and  Unexploded  writer Alison MacLeod. For t...

Available for pre-order on Amazon In a strange turn of events, I am in the process of launching two books this month. One is the Hong Ko...

On Thursday we celebrated the launch of How Does One Dress to Buy Dragonfruit? True Stories of Expat Women in Asia with a party at Bookazin...

Drumroll, please! I'm so excited to reveal the cover of my new travel memoir Year of Fire Dragons: An American Woman's Story of Comi...

I'm back in Hong Kong just in time for my favorite part of the year: Mid-Autumn Festival. This was the first holiday I experienced...