At present I am working on a young adult novel set in 2021 and entitled The Geomancer’s Compass. At the start of the novel, sixteen year old computer wiz Miranda Liu is just finishing up a summer internship when she is summoned to her grandmother’s deathbed and entrusted with a mission.  Her internship is with CanBoard, the Canadian arm of WorldBoard, an international effort to develop a planetary infrastructure for associating digital information, tools and services with specific places through the rapidly developing technology of Augmented Reality.  Her mission is to lift the curse that has been slowly decimating her Chinese Canadian family, a curse that dates back to 1908 and a period of extreme anti-Chinese sentiment in Canada.  In order to do this, she must employ the tools provided her by Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and a seventeenth century lo’pan – a geomancer’s compass given her by her grandmother. And she must accomplish this with the assistance of Brian, her crazy-making ADHD cousin. The Geomancer’s Compass imagines a world in the near future while exploring the Chinese-Canadian experience and the expanding, elastic and shifting nature of reality.

Click here to read an excerpt from The Geomancer’s Compass.

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