Finally, it’s out! Originally I wrote a short story for an anthology that wanted East Asian stories about female warriors and it was rejected. However, I had so much fun doing research about San Francisco’s Chinatown in the 1800s that I expanded the short story into a novel. I entered the novel into a contest and it lost, then after a few years of querying agents and publishers, I finally found a small press that accepted the manuscript.
The book is about yokai/demon hunting in San Francisco in the year 1869. The main character, Pearl Ming Ju Wong was chosen to be a ghost bride during her journey to America from China and thrown overboard. She is enlisted in a mission to find a missing artifact to save Chinatown, but at the same time, she has a deal to hand over the same item to an octopus yokai who can help her find her missing sister. This is a xuanhuan fantasy novel mixing Eastern and Western concepts of Taoism and Roman Catholicism.
For more details about the book, visit Dark Winter Press’ website: https://www.darkwinterlit.com/darkwinter-press?pgid=lm866r7x-2a7d042e-aaa0-48a4-88b7-e8bd41563bba
Musings of a Generic Asian 