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Autumn Jade Publishing children's mystery books - adopted Chinese mystery series - Home Page
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My wife and I have adopted two girls from China. In January 1999, we were doing the paperwork to adopt our second daughter. I was sitting at the computer one night when it hit me. Wham! I read the Hardy Boys when I was younger and my sisters read Nancy Drew. Where were the mystery stories for Asian kids, especially the girls adopted from China?
Within a couple of days, I roughed out the concept of a heroine who had been adopted from China, lived in Vancouver and solved mysteries with the help of dreams of Shanghai, China in the 1930s. The writing was going so well I decided to I needed a publisher for "Bullets on the Bund." I went to the library and researched the Canadian and American publishers that might be interested in my book.
I picked Scholastic Canada as my top choice and sent them a query letter. Less than two weeks later I had a reply requesting my manuscript. Which wasn't finished of course because I didn't expect a letter back so quickly. My wife and I did our best job polishing the manuscript and in June of 1999 I sent it off -- one year later I received a very nice rejection letter saying they loved the story and here were some suggestions. In June 2000 I sent a re-worked manuscript back to Scholastic. I still haven't heard back... I'm thinking they lost or misplaced it.
