"Asian fantasy doesn't sell"

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See here for a better discussion - short version is that when Cindy Pon was marketing her book, Silver Phoenix: Beyond the Kingdom of Xia,* one publisher told her that Asian fantasy didn't sell.

Not like those manga readers read Asian fantasy or anything.






* Out at the very end of April. I read the description and slapped a pre-order on that sucker so fast...