Books in the Works: Myanmar



Throughout all the excitement of getting To Vietnam With Love to press and out into the world, we have been steadily working on the upcoming books in the series, and we are nearing completion on one of our most exciting volumes: To Myanmar With Love. Myanmar has spent a lot of time in the news in the past year, for the uprising in September 2007 and the cyclone last month. Lost in all these stories, as well as ongoing stories about the reviled government, are the individuals that make Myanmar such a wonderful country.

In To Myanmar With Love we will be bringing the people and culture to the world, through the voices of expatriates, travelers, and most importantly, the locals who have contributed numerous essays about the places and experiences they love so much. Along with essays about riding in horse carts, sipping wine, chatting with monks, and meeting with hill tribes, there will be an entire chapter on ways that you can contribute to this beautiful country.

Though it's not coming out until this fall, we want to get travelers as excited about this book as we are. Stay tuned for more news here at this blog and at To Myanmar With Love.

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ThingsAsian Press at Book Expo America



Well, we are just beginning to recover from three full days at Book Expo America (BEA). Representing ThingsAsain Press, Janet Brown and I handed out copies of new titles To Vietnam With Love and Everyday Life. Both were big hits with booksellers, and Everyday Life in particular was ooh'd and ah'd over by librarians, who all expressed interest in carrying this colorful, bilingual (English/Chinese) title. We also attended some Chinese publishing seminars, where the response to Strolling in Macau was fabulous. Everyone wanted a copy of this beautiful guidebook whose focus is architecture, walking tours, and an intriguing Chinese-Portuguese heritage, rather than casinos. We were also popular for the striking orange and red ThingsAsian bags that we were handing out---we gave away hundreds!

Along with meeting booksellers and librarians, the other goal of the convention was to find a distributor for ThingsAsian Press, so books can be easily ordered. This was another area in which we had great success, and soon you will be able to get your hands on To Vietnam With Love and all our other great titles whenever you want. Stay tuned.

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To Vietnam With Love


10:58 AM PDT Permalink |

Things Asian Press Website: New & Improved!



ThingsAsian Press is excited to announce the launch of its newly revamped website.

Along with finding information on all of the new and upcoming books in the To Asia With Love guidebook series, you will find other great travel, food, children's, and reference titles. Among the highlights are Strolling in Macau, The Sushi Book, and Everyday Life Through Chinese Peasant Art. ThingsAsian Press also features beautiful notecards in its gift section.

If you are at BEA this weekend, Kim Fay and Janet Brown will be roaming the floor, handing out press information and copies of new titles---keep an eye out for the bright orange ThingsAsian Press bookbags. You can also check out a copy of To Vietnam With Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur at the PMA Booth (#724-827).

If you are a bookseller or journalist interested in a title, please contact Kim Fay at tawl@thingsasian.com.


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Guidebook series to launch with To Vietnam With Love



The acclaimed "To Asia With Love: A Connoisseurs' Guide to Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam" will soon be a comprehensive series of Asia-focused guidebooks with the publication of "To Vietnam With Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur."

Available at the end of June, "To Vietnam With Love" takes readers throughout the country with more than fifty expatriates, travelers, and locals as they reveal their favorite haunts through personal stories. Stay overnight with a local hill tribe, climb Southeast Asia's highest mountain, tour historic French villas, dine on local specialties from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, and learn how to give back to the country while you're visiting. And that's just the beginning.

If you happen to be at BEA, we will be wandering the floor handing out advance copies---just look out for Kim Fay and Janet Brown carrying bright yellow ThingsAsian Press bags full of goodies to give away. We can also be reached at tawl@thingsasian.com.

For a sneak preview, go to To Vietnam With Love.


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