A former professor of mine got me hooked on both Coffee Prince and You Are Beautiful, and I started watching Boys Over Flowers and other gender-flipping dramas afterward. I didn’t think about Go Jung-hwa again, and didn’t discover her name, until I started watching Korean dramas. Idly, I wondered if “hwa-jeon” was an insult in Korea, their equivalent of “pizza face.” I wondered what it would do to a person to hear that. If using the traditional azaleas, the flowers form a pink or purple stain on the pale surface. Specifically, it was a Maangchi’s recipe for hwa-jeon, a Korean rice flour pancake adorned with edible flowers. I first thought of Go Jung-hwa, the character of my new novel Company Town while watching a Korean cooking video. Today, she’s joining Book Bites to talk about her latest novel, Companytown – out today! Her short fiction has appeared in Nature, FLURB, Tesseracts, Imaginarium, and Escape Pod.
She has written narrative scenarios and science fiction prototypes for organizations like Intel Labs, the Institute for the Future, SciFutures, Nesta, Data & Society, The Atlantic Council, and others. She writes a column for the Ottawa Citizen.
Madeline Ashby is a science fiction writer, futurist, speaker, and immigrant living in Toronto. Madeline Ashby Photo credit: Kayleigh McCollum Photography Authors talk about their book and share a recipe, all in one tasty bite. Book Bites is Cooking the Books‘ more easygoing cousin.
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