Murder in Peking Gets an Early Plug

While I’m in the mood for plugging my own stuff  (apologies, as ever) I’ll just link to this article that popped up in the Wall Street Journal by Didi Kirstin Tatlow – Let a Hundred Publishers Bloom.  I get a nice plug for my forthcoming Pamela Werner murder in 1937 Peking book which hopefully indicates that people will swarm to the bookshops (and the e-book download sites, as I  suppose we have to say now) in their millions and earn me enough money to finally that get that yacht I’ve been promising myself (which I intend to name ‘The Pamela’), though where in hell I’ll sail it in Shanghai remains a sticking point in the plan.

Anyway, the article also has some interesting information on Penguin’s innovative China publishing programme and other details on the state of publishing in China at the moment which is always a fascinating subject.

BTW: advance notice that my biography of Carl Crow – A Tough Old China Hand: The Life, Times and Adventures of an American in Shanghai is to be issued (can you say published?) as an e book apparently suitable for all these Kindle, Nook, iPad and whatevers people now use. More details when it hits the shelves (I haven’t thought of a virtual equivalent for this yet!).