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  • We’re all looking forward to your visit, Jeannine. Fliers just went up all over the building today, and I’m hoping to get some coverage in both the college newspaper and the city paper. I’ll email you in a day or so to make sure you have all my contact info and to find out where you’re staying in Bowling Green.

    Tom

    September 25, 2006
  • I’ll see you at Village Books, Jeannine!

    September 25, 2006
  • Thumbs up to you on the lip balm and water bottle, J9! And have a great tour, c u soon,
    Tamara

    September 26, 2006
  • Chuck Williamson

    Ditto what Tom said. I have read through Becoming the Villainess frontwards and backwards many times now, and the thing just borders on miraculous every time I read it. So you can imagine I’m very anxious to meet you and see you read. So expect there to be one froth-mouthed fan in attendance.

    I am beside myself with excitement — but not literally, because that would mean something supernatural was afoot.

    September 26, 2006
  • Thanks Tom!
    Oliver – that would be terrific! I’m hoping to see you read in Seattle soon!
    Thanks Tamara and Chuck – supernatural extra selves welcome 🙂

    September 27, 2006
  • What a road trip! Have a great time and good luck!
    xop

    September 28, 2006
  • There is a Chinese myth about Hangzhou, a city that (according to my Lonely Planet) Marco Polo called “one of the most magnificent in the world.”

    The myth is about a young man who sees a beautiful woman and her “sister” (in this case, more like a kindred spirit rather than a blood relative) on the Broken Bridge of West Lake in Hangzhou. The young man was handsome, and the woman fell in love with him. Turns out, the woman was really an ancient snake (as was her sister), with magical powers and human form. She eventually married the young man and helped him cure people with her magic and his traditional Chinese medicine. Then one day a Buddhist monk came to town, intent on killing “the monster” even though the woman was kind-hearted. The young man doesn’t believe the monk, but eventually discovers his wife’s true nature and dies of shock. She is so sad that she flies to the realm of the gods on a tall mountain (not sure which of the holy mountains this is, I think it may have been Taishan) to get a special flower which will return her husband to life. She has to fight off the guardian gods of the place after she steals the flower, and eventually receives pity from the king of the gods for her plight. She returns her husband to life, and he forgets that his wife is a snake. The monk returns though, and he sort of kidnaps the young man, and the woman and her sister are forced to get all magical Kung-fu on him with an enourmous army. But the woman (she is called the White Lady) is eventually defeated and imprisoned in a tower by the monk. The husband eventually dies of old age; but their son and Blue (or sometimes Green, the sister) free White Lady later.

    Anyway, a little Chinese female savior character story. It’s a famous traditional opera, novel, and even a kung fu soap opera over here.

    October 02, 2006

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