Thursday I went to the enchanted land known as Emerald Hills
in Redwood City to hear
Wendy Nelson Tokunaga speak at Ellen Kirschman's
gorgeous home. Other writers in attendance were
Gretchen Maurer,
Katia Noyes,
Lynn Kaufman,
Harriet Chessman and
Maude Carol. We got amped on sugar and
coffee and hungrily soaked up everything Wendy told us (okay, we interrupted
her constantly with comments and questions, but that's not a crime, is it?) She
chronicled her journey from traditionally published work (
Midori by Moonlight,
Love in Translation, St. Martin's Press) to going her own way (
Falling Uphill,
His Wife and Daughters). I listened with rapt attention to her tale and took
feverish notes. Rather than summarizing it all here and potentially
misrepresenting some of her experiences (I was under the influence of sugar and
caffeine, after all) I'm going to follow up with a Wendy interview, so stay
tuned...
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