✨LION DANCERS COVER REVEAL✨ Pre-orders are now OPEN for LION DANCERS, releasing on August 13, 2024!! Not long now everybody, and you'll get to read the world's first American published graphic novel about lion dancing!
To celebrate, Barnes & Noble in the US are having a 25% off pre-order promotion right now for B&N Rewards and Premium members (Premium members get an additional 10% off print books only). Membership is free. Pre-order links are here:
US Publisher Page: LINK
Booktopia (AU): LINK
Dymocks (AU): LINK
Comment below if you have any questions, or just share how excited you are that this book is coming out this year because I am beside myself!!
In mine and many other east Asian cultures, the dragon traditionally symbolises things like power, wealth and strength (imperial symbol and all)
I think we often forget that in the story of the Great Race, the dragon came in fifth because it'd stopped to give people rain. Then it'd stopped again to push a rabbit adrift on a log across the wide river so it reached the shore safely (that's why the Rabbit year comes before the Dragon).
Dragons aren't meant to just be powerful - they are meant to do good with such power, and to help those in need.
So in this lunar new year, I hope you gain more power, so that you might be able to help others. I pray you have abundant resources so you may give to yourself and those around you. I wish you courage, endurance, kindness and generosity, for yourself and your people.
I hope you, and I, will be rain givers, life preservers, joy bringers.
I hope we will be dragons.
Extremely belated postscript that should have been here far earlier:
I love the idea of kintsugi so here's a porcelain dragon that highlights the broken seams with gold. Despite all the pains of hardships in life, we are beautiful.
A wonderful Pokemon chinese animated short film directed by DaiWei (All Saints Street) and produced by MTJJ / HMCH studio (Legend of Hei) for Chinese New Year.
2024 is the Year of the Dragon, and you need to TREAT YOURSELF! Tianlong, the spirit dragon, is the embodiment of your Zodiac sign, and wouldn't he just look so cute on your mantle?
He's perfect to add to the impressive pile of plushies that pushes your partner out of bed every night 🙌 😉
Check out the Plush Project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eyewhiskers/year-of-the-dragon-plushie-and-extras