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 my translation of Yashakiden by Hideyuki Kikuchi for Digital Manga Publishing, a superhero vampire series that takes place in Kikuchi's Demon City Shinjuku universe.
Unlike the vampires in Angel Falling Softly (or Twilight), Kikuchi's bloodsucking villains are doing their very best to be very, very bad. Volume 1 is scheduled for release in January 2010.
Angel Falling Softly, my "Mormon" vampire novel, can be read online (free), purchased at Amazon as a paperback
My cross-cultural romance, The Path of Dreams, can be read online (free), purchased at Amazon as a paperback
All of my own novels can also be downloaded, previewed or purchased at Smashwords.
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. Tokyo South is an autobiographical novel about the two years I spent in Tokyo a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
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 shortstory collection, 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 is 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 the following excerpt from American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
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