Zapizapu Crosses the Sea    by Diane Abad-Vergara
Price: $0.99 USD. 1220 words. Published on October 21, 2012. .
Zapizapu Crosses the Sea is a fascinating children's book. The script and colourful illustrations work together to simplify the concept of international trade and personify those involved around the world from grower to consumer. In its rawness we discover that the simple yet important concept of 'playing fair' is important for children and grown ups alike.

Waiting for the Lady    by Christopher G. Moore
Price: $4.95 USD. 111720 words. Published by HeavenLakePress  on October 24, 2012. .
Sloan Wolcott, an American expat in Bangkok, a part-time art dealer and smuggler and a full-time rogue, comes into possession of a camera belonging to a Japanese newspaper reporter killed in a suspicious car crash. Inside the camera, he finds several images of the Lady, Aung San Suu Kyi, one of her riding in an automobile with a bullet hole in the rear window and one lone picture of a mysterious..

A Life Less Ordinary    by Chris Van Dyk
Price: $0.99 USD. 119930 words. Published on October 24, 2012. .
What happens when an American from a small, rural town goes overseas to live and teach in one of the biggest cities in South Korea? Follow me on my one year journey to find out!

The Cultural Detective    by Christopher G. Moore
Price: $3.95 USD. 59990 words. Published by HeavenLakePress  on October 25, 2012. .
For more than twenty years, Christopher G. Moore has been writing about the history, culture and politics of Southeast Asia, in particular Thailand. The Cultural Detective is a behind-the-scene view into Moore’s writing life. In this selection of essays, Moore discusses with the humor and insight that he has become famous for. He draws widely on anthropology, neurology, psychology, ethnography...

Faking It in Bangkok    by Christopher G. Moore
Price: $4.95 USD. 75730 words. Published by HeavenLakePress  on October 25, 2012. .
The Cultural Detective established Christopher G. Moore as a writer whose essays deliver a unique perspective insight into Thai culture and contemporary political and social issues. In Faking It in Bangkok gangsters, gamblers, killers and other criminals are brought to life in the essays. Readers who follow Moore’s crime novels will enjoy his detours through the hard-edged noir world of Thailand..

The Immortal Nightingale    by Don Bosco
Price: Free! 8310 words. Published on October 27, 2012. .
Book 1 of the Sherlock Hong series. Place: Singapore. When: the year 1891. Sherlock Hong is fifteen years old, recently expelled from a boarding school in England for dabbling in alchemy and pursuing magical knowledge. Things get exciting when he meets a bizarre necromancer who intends to bring a dead nightingale back to life.

The Peranakan Princess    by Don Bosco
Price: $0.99 USD. 8380 words. Published on October 27, 2012. .
Book 2 of the Sherlock Hong series. Place: Singapore. When: the year 1891. Sherlock Hong discovers the truth about an astonishing Peranakan legend involving Princess Hang Li Poh and her magical Book of Secrets!

Subject to Change    by Timothy Leonard
Price: $7.99 USD. 114150 words. Published on October 30, 2012. .
A hybrid metafictional memoir by a prescient Vietnam veteran. He was in Morocco on 9/11. It blends journalism, history, creative nonfiction and world travel. It incorporates abandonment, loss, exile, renewal, creativity, diversity, kindness and gratitude.

Phnom Penh Noir    by HeavenLakePress
Price: $8.95 USD. 100550 words. Published on October 30, 2012. .
Many noir anthologies have inspired writers and publishers around the world to gather novelists to set noir stories in a city. When it comes to noir, not all cities are equal. The history of genocide and dislocation sets Phnom Penh apart from other places. What other city in modern times was emptied of all of his people at gun point, a city abandoned and left as a ghost town?...

Essays in Travel and Humor Vol. 2: Nomad    by C. Patrick Neagle
Price: $2.99 USD. 26410 words. Published by Goblinbrook Press  on November 1, 2012. .
This second volume of author and photographer C. Patrick Neagle's series is bigger and better, containing 36 travel-sized essays and 30 photographs from around the globe (but mostly from Arabia, Asia, and the Mediterranean). Filled with humorous and sometimes thoughtful commentary, these essays may help you avoid moped gangs in Europe, dive for pearls in Bahrain, and ride elephants in Malaysia.