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17 January 2012

A Bit of Relief for the New Year (Books) - 17 January 2012

Although this blog tends to be on the serious side, even cultural issues need a bit of humour now and then. Though we hate to bother readers, we would like to use this opportunity to announce two new books by your blogger...

The first is a look at cross-cultural romance, especially between Asians and Caucasians. It's a non-fiction work, with some poignant stories, but a lot of humour. It's entitled The White Husbands' Club, a take-off of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. Available (and quite affordable) on Amazon:

The White Husbands' Club
http://www.amazon.com/The-White-Husbands-Club-ebook/dp/B006UH5OAS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326807698&sr=8-1


The second book is also humourous, though the subject is examines is serious: employment. The history of this book is interesting: we submitted it to a number of publishers and literary agents with little luck -- as usual, they didn't know what "category" to slot it into. But we also got a compliment: one publisher said that they loved the book... but wouldn't publish it because the humour was too "dark". Think of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal", and that's the book you will find here:

Don't Pay: Why Your Employees Should Be Working For Free!
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Pay-Employees-Working-ebook/dp/B006VH0P1A/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1326807698&sr=8-2

It's a parody of those (dreadful) CEO / business self-help books that one finds in airport bookstores, all cheery and filled with the "can-do" spirit of capitalism...

More soon...