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Category: Reading, Writing, and Research

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China's Wings/Reading, Writing, and Research

Why interviewing Moon Chin is like interviewing a jazz riff…

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Gregory / 13 Comments

As my understanding of CNAC improved, so did my ability to extract maximum value from my Moon Chin interviews, but even though I was getting more and more out o...

China's Wings/Reading, Writing, and Research

Ceiling 500 feet, intermittent drizzle

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Gregory / 6 Comments

In 2004, I approached Moon Chin with great trepidation. My experiences at the CNAC reunion made it obvious that he had incredible standing and “face” among the ...

China's Wings/Reading, Writing, and Research

All roads led to Moon Chin

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Gregory / 11 Comments

I’ve been focusing on whipping the China’s Wings manuscript into shape with Tracy Devine, my editor at Bantam Dell, and I’m thrilled with the ...

China's Wings/Reading, Writing, and Research

The Douglas Dolphin, Moon Chin’s favorite airplane

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Gregory / 2 Comments

“The only overpowered seaplane I ever flew."

China's Wings/Reading, Writing, and Research

The Future Revealed Itself…

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Gregory / 0 Comment

The people in this story knew as much about tomorrow as we do today. Which is to say, very little. The future revealed itself to them the same way it reveals it...

China's Wings/Reading, Writing, and Research

What was, at the time, the world’s most exciting undertaking – flying

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Gregory / 1 Comment

The romance of those beautiful airplanes flying against the backdrop of 1930s China set a hook in my heart. Shirley’s stories and her father’s photos cracked op...

China's Wings/Reading, Writing, and Research

The first hints of something much more substantial…

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Gregory / 1 Comment

I had one of my life’s best 24-hour pushes in New York: at Bantam, I lunched with John Flicker, my acquiring editor (thanks, John!),  and Nita Taublib , who mig...

China's Wings/Reading, Writing, and Research

I staggered upstairs, collapsed on my bed, pulled a blanket over my head, and sobbed tears of relief.

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Gregory / 0 Comment

For the next year and a half, I failed to land another book project, and it wasn’t for lack of trying. Amidst the magazine writing and the part-time gig, three ...

China's Wings/Reading, Writing, and Research

The lowest I’d ever been

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Gregory / 2 Comments

I came home from the reunion, thrilled to have bumbled into such an incredible story, invested three months researching and writing a book proposal about the ma...

China's Wings/Reading, Writing, and Research

“Where were you ten years ago, Mr. Writer, when I had twice as many members?”

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Gregory / 2 Comments

On the last morning of the reunion, the hospitality room again filled with CNAC people and their wives. I sat to the side and watched them socialize, the conser...

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