The title of my website means either "hot air and bluster" or a "big wrapping cloth" ("big furoshiki"). I'll go with both.
The first thing in that furoshiki is Angel Falling Softly, a contemporary fantasy about the wife of a Mormon bishop who strikes a Faustian bargain with a Wall Street vampire (literally and figuratively) to save her daughter's life.
It can be purchased at Amazon as a paperback
In my cross-cultural romance, The Path of Dreams, the guy and the girl deal with the temptations of the flesh the usual way BYU students do. By getting married. But in this case, with very unusual results.
It can be purchased at Amazon as a paperback
Tokyo South is a fictional account of the two years I spent in Japan as a missionary during the late 1970s. It depicts how an overzealous religious bureaucracy turned the preaching the gospel into a cynical numbers game.
The novel can be purchased at Amazon as a Kindle ebook or read online for free.
A Man of Few Words (written by my sister Kate) is a lighthearted look at the critical events in Jane Austen's most famous work from Darcy's perspective. It can be purchased at Amazon as a Kindle ebook
Past, present, and forthcoming professional writing and translation projects are listed in my bibliography. Otherwise, this website represents whatever my otaku obsession du jour happens to be.
New essays, reviews, and other assorted blatherings will usually show up on my blog first. The New Era links to a handful of short stories published in The New Era magazine, and includes a tribute to its wonderful editorial staff.
I've posted translations of Fuyumi Ono's Twelve Kingdoms novels Shadow of the Moon, A Thousand Leagues of Wind, The Shore in Twilight, and her anthology, Kasho no Yume. For more information, see my guide to the novels.
Essays is a collection of musings on manga, anime, Japanese culture and history, and religion, including an analysis of Philip Pullman, C.S. Lewis, and Joseph Smith. An index of my anime and movie reviews can be found here.
As for all who I existentially am, I recommend this article by Jonathan Rauch. As Rauch puts it, "On the Internet, no one knows you're an introvert." As for what I believe, I offer this excerpt from American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
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