thanks for visiting my site! i’m an author and my debut novel, Silver Phoenix : Beyond the Kingdom of Xia and its sequel, Fury of the Phoenix are all out from Greenwillow Books. i’m also a student of chinese brush painting and have a picture book in the works. please take a look around! my blog is updated regularly and i love comments and emails! =)

robin mckinley reads and reviews Silver Phoneix and
Fury of the Phoenix. and she enjoyed them! eep!!

signed hard copies of Silver Phoenix are available
now through Mysterious Galaxy! email me for details
on getting a personalized inscription.

Silver Phoenix paperback available 2/1/2011.

Fury of the Phoenix available 3/29/11
Order personalized and signed hard copies
through Mysterious Galaxy!

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okay, lovely peoples.
it doesn’t get better than this when
it comes to my Thank Goodness It’s Free Books
Monday! giveaway! FIVE fabulous books including
two ARCs from my own rad publisher, greenwillow!
i’ve read all these novels, and they are fantastic!
WINNER TAKES ALL. yep. you want this.
in celebration of Black Hole Sun coming out in
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magic happened

after a month of trying to paint classic chinese beauties,
i finally painted one that i love last night. as you can see,
she’s far from complete. i’ve been using a great book to
learn from, and the original painting is a circular one. the
woman is resting her elbow on a rock (which i’ve sketched
out lightly)  and there’s [...]