The Book Cove

Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where are you from?  I grew up in Fishkill, NY, which is a world away from Austin, TX where I live now, but I love both. This is my first novel, and I went at it with more vigor than any other short story I've ever written, but I'm getting back to that and writing screenplays. in college I used to write for a TV show whenever they'd let me and I wanted to write a novel with the mindset that everything I write might some day make the big screen. The first job I really loved was working at movie theater back in the day when film projectors were still the primary means of showcasing movies. I loved threading up the projector, cleaning it, putting the film together, and I said to myself someday I'll see my own work turned into something like this. Although whether that'll be in film or digital doesn't really concern me as long as I can chomp away on some movie theater food and watch it on the big screen in some cheap second run...

Arthur Biers, a young would-be historian just returned from a trip to Xi'an, China that nearly got him killed when he's questioned by the American Ambassador to China. He has a fresh wound, he's been discredited in the media as a grave robber, and his role in the illegal excavation of the first emperor of China's tomb nearly started a war. The United States government wants to know what happened. He recalls the story directly to the Ambassador who desperately wants to smooth things over. Purchase here Will Ruff was a Chinese history major, and spent a semester in Beijing at Tsinghua University. He wrote his senior thesis in college on Nixon's trip to China, and won a scholarship to visit the National Archives in College Park, MD, where Nixon's private White House tapes were kept, and he really wants people to care about China. He has been fascinated with the middle kingdom since he decided to study Mandarin and Chinese history, and The ...