{"id":1508,"date":"2009-10-21T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:31:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:31:50","slug":"turning-pages-bay-area-writer-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1508","title":{"rendered":"Turning Pages: Bay Area Writer Makes Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=center><\/div>\n<p>Aquafortis and I are always interested in giving props to writers from our neck of the woods. Ying Chang Compenstine, who we interviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/writingya.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/five-questions-for-ying-chang.html\" target= _blank>in 2008 about her YA novel, <i>Revolution is Not A Dinner Party<\/i><\/a> (which won 19 literary awards, woot!), is a Bay Area author who has a new picture book out called <i>Dumpling Boy<\/i>, illustrated by James Yamasaki.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/St8hjcV541I\/AAAAAAAABl4\/2O6LSEWEh_0\/s1600-h\/banquet.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/banquet.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Ying also celebrates the release this month of a collection of Chinese festival-themed ghost stories for older readers, called <i>A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts<\/i>. <i>Dumpling Boy<\/i> has a yummy looking simplified recipe for dumplings (Boy-free, the author assures us) which kids can make themselves. <\/p>\n<p>The Hungry Ghost Festival is a festival which occurs on the seventh month in the lunar calendar; apparently at that time, the gates of the underworld open, and unleash the ghosts onto the world for a month so that they can eat. Many Asian and Southeast Asian families leave offerings of food near graves and shrines. If that&#8217;s not a pre-made setting for a fully creepy collection of stories, I don&#8217;t know what is&#8230;! <\/p>\n<p>Ying is an author who knows the way to her readers&#8217; hearts. For the release of her hungry ghost book, she hosted a FOURTEEN COURSE Chinese banquet for her guests. And you just <i>know<\/i> they had dumplings.<\/p>\n<p>Why am I suddenly starving?<\/p>\n<p>You can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/aff\/readersrant7?product=9780823419555\" target=_blank><i>Dumpling Boy<\/i><\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/aff\/readersrant7?product=9780805082081\" target=_blank> <i>A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts<\/i><\/a> at an independent bookstore near you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aquafortis and I are always interested in giving props to writers from our neck of the woods. Ying Chang Compenstine, who we interviewed in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,14,5,26],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fantasy-sci-fi","tag-middle-grade","tag-reviews","tag-short-story-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5817,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/5817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}