On The Artsy Raven, Tao Wong talks about the differences between LitRPG, Japanese light novels, wuxia and xianxia, why he started writing his own stories after being inspired by the wuxia genre and offers marketing tips to other indie authors.

Tao Wong is a full-time author in the scifi and fantasy genres, writing predominantly in the LitRPG and xianxia sub-genres. A multiple times international Amazon bestseller, he is best known for the System Apocalypse and A Thousand Li universes, with over 40 full-length novels and numerous shorter works published. Tao was a finalist for the Kindle Storyteller UK Award in 2021.

At time 22:00 he reads from his novel, A Thousand Li: The Fourth Fall.

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Note: After the recording of this podcast I remembered the name of the actress in Legend of the Condor Heroes (TVB, 1983) - Barbara Yung Mei-ling (翁美玲) who was the best Huang Rong (黃蓉) ever and tragically died young.

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