Still struggling

Last week I celebrated my 73rd birthday.  Some Chinese people are a little wary of their 73rd and 84th years.  That is because Confucius died when he was 73 and Mencius died when he was 84.  I am hoping to make it well past both vulnerable years. Some initial responses to Pursuing Shadows from my…

I obviousy have not added to this blog recently. That is because I have been busy working on y trilogy of historical novels about a missionary family in China circa 1900to 1985. They are almost finiahed and ready for publication. The first is entitled Harvest of Hunger and deals with trials and tribulations associated with…

It is Sunday and I have resolved to try to regularly (semi-regularly?) contribute to this Blog weekly.  I got some positive feedback from one of my test readers for the draft of my new book Ashes and Memories.  If anyone might want to read a PDF version of it, just email me at pscorbett@yahoo.com and…

While I was beginning t work on book #4 “Pursuing Shadows” an attempt at writing a “funny” book Ideas exploded in my head for another book “Fortune’s Retrieval” about the repatriation of Americans from China during World War II. I then thought it could be a sequel to “Harvest of Hunger” (an earlier proposed book…

April 4, 2023 – Well, it has been a bit nerve-wracking since I last blogged. I’ve worked on the website and hope that it is presentable and acceptable. https://dapshowpublications.wixsite.com/dapshow-publications. I’ve nearly finished preparing my trilogy of books about an American family in China during the 20th century for publication. I am not trying to organize a…

Trying to get my book “Uniformly Undeserved” out to a wider public. Here is a link to my Booksie page: https://www.booksie.com/users/p.-scott-corbett-324293