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  • Archive for March 24th, 2008

    Fortune Cookie Chronicles’ Amazon rating is back up to five star

    Monday, March 24th, 2008

    I woke up today to discover that my Amazon rating is back up to five stars because two new contributors pulled the average up. I thought I should take a screenshot of it while it lasts.

    Amazon, Chinese food, rating

    Random people actually read the book…which still continues to surprise me

    Monday, March 24th, 2008

    So I was at R&G Lounge in San Francisco Chinatown for a low-key alumni event when these people from another table actually recognized me because they had read my book. They weren’t even Chinese American or my age.
    It was a father and teenage son pair, genetically Indian, from Brownsville, Texas.
    (That’s like essentially Mexico). We had […]

    Third printing!

    Monday, March 24th, 2008

    Due to strong re-orders from bookstores and (hopefully) continued media attention, the publishers just ordered a third printing. Yay. Whew.
    Book Musings, printings