This week I am sharing another installment of Supporting Aspiring Writers by focusing on the touchy subject of book sales. This is a super sensitive topic for most authors, be they fairly well established or just starting out. Often sales are shrouded in a cloud of...
This week I am writing about something that has been on my mind for the past few months. Struggle and success. These two words are strange companions, that do not seem at first to go hand-in-hand. Yet, you can’t taste the sweet nectar of success without...
Over a bowl of warm noodle soup, with kimchi on the side and several small tapas-like meat dishes my Korean seatmate told me his life story. His name was Jun and he was originally from the city of Busan, which is located on the southeast coast of the Korean peninsula....
Recently, for some strange reason I remembered a very peculiar experience that I had a few years ago when I was travelling to South Korea for a scientific conference. For the entire eleven-hour flight from Frankfurt to Seoul I did not speak to the passenger sitting...
