Sword Maiden Duology on Local Shelf of Bookazine's Tai Kwun Branch

 

 

 

On my recent Hong Kong trip, I made it a point to visit the new Bookazine Tai Kwun branch that was opened a little while ago. Tai Kwun 大館 is the newly transformed arts and culture hub in the Central District. The premises formerly housed the Hollywood Road Central Police Station & Prison and were refurbished to become the elegant arts center of today.

 

On the day of my visit, the place was packed with locals and tourists who came to admire the lovely Christmas decorations and browse around the various interest points (like the Aura Art workshop, two bookshops, the heritage museum, the Japanese tea ceremony workshop etc.) Besides Bookazine, there's another bookshop on ground level, which is Taschen Books from Germany, the renowned publisher/bookseller of luxury art-books. It felt like Tai Kwun is going to be a magnet for people who like books and the arts.

 

I was pleasantly surprised to find my recently published Sword Maiden wuxia-myth duology (The Heavenly Sword + The Earthly Blaze) right on the LOCAL shelf of the Bookazine shop! I also spotted a few popular Hong Kong-themed books by other Hong Kong authors, like Jason Ng's Hong Kong Noir, Janice Lee's The Expatriates and Larry Feign's The Flower Boat Girl. As it is well-known that Hong Kong is the birthplace of Jin Yong's and Liang Yusheng's famous wuxia novels, it seems that my wuxia duology is placed on the appropriate "Local" bookshelf and in the right locale (as shown in photos above)! It is fully my intention to have my two books carry on the Hong Kong wuxia legacy, as well as to promote the genre to the Euro-American audience!

 

 

On separate occasions, I also made my rounds to Bookazine's IFC and Prince's Building branches, and was glad to see my books displayed as shown in the two photos above.