A literary connection: Wind, Sand and Stars to China’s Wings
This recent reading is the first time I've gone through Wind, Sand and Stars without an eye toward its relevance to climbing. I'm happy to report that it's ever...
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A book at last!
This is a strange experience. There it is. China’s Wings. A book at last No longer in my imagination.
Some of my best friends, and some more on Barbara Tuchman
Building on what I said yesterday about how Barbara Tuchman’s book Practicing History helped me organize my research, through the years, I’ve read m...
Practicing History, or, How Barbara Tuchman saved my bacon
Barbara Tuchman's book Practicing History taught me the system for organizing research on 4x6 index cards that I used to great effect while writing China's Wing...
The White Countess, my favorite Shanghai movie
The White Countess, a film that evokes the glitter and grime of 1930s Shanghai. The film wasn't universally well-reviewed, but I confess to loving it. At a num...
What #1 bestselling author James Bradley has to say about China’s Wings
Yesterday was a big day. Working back and forth with my editors at Bantam, we closed the last detail. China’s Wings is finished. Took seven and a half yea...
A Major Mistake
I decided tried to tell William Bond’s and Moon Chin’s stories together, imagining a parallel biography with Bond’s point of view carrying the larger “strategic...
Page proofs are in!
Page proofs just arrived from New York. It’s a book at last, and I’m thrilled with work done by Bantam’s design team. Here’s a picture o...
The reason I’ve been neglecting this blog
With Tracy Devine’s blessing, it went to one of Bantam’s copy editors last Thursday, nearly nine years after I discovered the CNAC story. There̵...