Author Archives: Raymond Yung

It is because Prince Harry officially turned 30 last night. I was not invited to his party so I only heard it from the news this morning (not that I would have time anyway :>). I should have discussed it before, but now is a good time to mention it. The target audience of my […]

It is to strongly “persuade” your friend to BUY your book! It was a close call for me last week. I got 200 copies of my book delivered to me last Tuesday. Out of over-excitement, I contacted a good friend of mine who had promised to buy a copy from me (she will remain anonymous […]

Yes, my colleague Andrew told me yesterday that he had read my entire book! He gave some feedback verbally which I would not mention it here. No, not that was bad! That is not what I meant, people (stop giggling now). Listen, it is because he promised me to write a PROPER review. You see […]

Some people asked me what my expectation on the sales of my book is. My next milestone is 1,000 paid copies in the first year. Then I would consider the book as a success (in my opinion as an unknown author). That is the sign that I have sold my book beyond my circle of […]

I could not contain my excitement. I received the first batch of my books this afternoon. YES!!! Lulu.com sent them ahead of the schedule (Thanks guys!). The book looks great [of course – I am not biased at all 🙂 ] even better than the pdf that I reviewed before printing. I have already sold […]

The breakthrough arrived when I attended a coaching and mentoring training workshop early last year (2013). During an ice-breaking session, the topic was “a project that you abandoned that you wish you could have continued”. The book project came to my mind (the word Botox did cross my mind :>) and I brought it up. […]

After that decision, I spent the next 2-3 years working on my very first draft. I showed it to some of my family members. The feedback was mixed. Some of them said, “Well, what you wrote is logical and of common sense, but it is not ground breaking.” On the other hand, my niece Vivian, […]

Yes, indeed. Some people were wondering why it had taken seemingly, shall we say, a bit longer than “normal”. Let me try to make the long story short here. For part one of this blog, let us talk about how on earth I came up with this book-publishing idea. I started learning French about 10 […]

Stepping into September, I am in officially in the “counting down” period of the book publication. Time for a bit of reflection on this journey of self-publication! I have embarked a different journey from writing a book which took me 8 and half years. Hopefully it will be shorter if I meet the deadline in […]

First thing first, a flurry of inquires asking me to clarify. “Is it a typo?  Do you mean a great(excellent) nephew?” Well, for the record, I do have a 4-month great-nephew (the son of a great nephew Edwin) whose name is Ethan! He is adorable as you can see in the picture.  I held him […]