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- About Me:
- Lloyd Lofthouse earned a BA in journalism after fighting in Vietnam as a U.S. Marine. While working days as an English teacher at a high school in Califonira, he enjoyed a second job as a maitre d' in a multimillion-dollar nightclub. He now lives near San Francisco with his wife, with a second home in Shanghai , China.
- Website:
- http://www.mysplendidconcubine.com
- Published Novels
- My Splendid Concubine
- Favourite Books
- THIS LIST IS ONLY A SAMPLE--otherwise I'd be writing all day.
All books written by James Lee Burke
The Lord of the Rings (Lloyd has read all four of them three times--I'm counting The Hobbit)
Interview WIth a Vampire by Anne Rice (read it twice) and most of her other books too.
Ursula K. Le Guinn's The Left Hand of Darkness
All of Tony Hillerman's books
The House of Sky by Ivan Doig (pure poetry)
All of Patrick O'Brian's books
Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
All of Horatio Hornblower by C.S. Foester (Lloyd has read the entire series three times)
Lloyd Lofthouse's Blog
China: Today and Yesterday
A long time friend of mine says that the Communist Party in China is evil (there are about seventy million members). I disagreed with that blanket statement, and we had a debate without any resolution. Where he sees only black and white, I see shades of gray.
Certainly Mao acted with evil intent starting with the Great Leap Forward and finishing with the Cultural Revolution, but was China ever completely at peace under any of the Emperors going back to the first Emperor that unified Ch
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I've added a page to my Website with the entire current schedule of talk shows.
Lloyd
You gave an excellent interview on the Doctor Pat show the other day. And I sincerely appreciate you mentioning my upcoming book. Yes, Robert Hart would have been a welcomed traveling companion during my long journey across China. Seems that we shared similar tastes ;)
Where can I get a schedule of yor upcoming broadcasts?
Regards,
Tom Carter
http://www.tomcarter.org
That's great about the bookplates. I think they are really effective to offer on your website when people buy your book. That way they can request a signed bookplate by you and that way their book will be signed.
I use Avery's large shipping labels to make mine. That way the are self-adhesive.
If you or anyone else on this site wish to chat in depth with me, feel free to email me at dmp@donaldmichaelplatt.com
My wife defeats me 60% of the time.