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Lloyd Lofthouse
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Lloyd Lofthouse earned a BA in journalism after fighting in Vietnam as a U.S. Marine. Later, while working days as an English teacher at a high school in California, he earned an MFA in writing. He enjoyed a job as a maitre d’ in a multimillion-dollar nightclub and tried his hand successfully at counting cards in Las Vegas for a few years. He now lives near San Francisco with his wife, with a second home in Shanghai, China. Lloyd says that snapshots of his life appear like multicolored ribbons flowing through many of his poems.
This link, Vietnam, 1966, takes you to Lloyd's 'Vietnam ' photo page filled with photos. This page may load 'SLOW' for older computers.
This link, CLICK HERE for teaching page, will take you to a media piece from a Southern California newspaper that Lloyd copied and posted on his Website that will give you an idea about his teaching years:
If you are interesting in learning more about Lloyd's teaching experience, you are welcome to read about it at AuthorsDen. 'Word Dancer' is a memoir of the 1994-1995 school year. He kept a daily journal that year. He is using that journal to write 'Word Dancer'. Everyday, when he arrived home, Lloyd wrote an entry in that journal. It sat on a shelf in his garage for fourteen years gathering dust. Spiders moved into the binder and built a nest. After all those years, Lloyd forgot he'd written it. When he was cleaning the garage, he found it again. Lloyd started reading, remembering and writing. Everything he writes in 'Word Dancer' happened. He's using a primary source as his guide. Memory may be faulty, but a daily journal written the day an event took place is as accurate as it can get from the author's point-of-view.
Accomplishments: Lloyd's short story "A Night at the Well of Purity" was named a finalist for the 2007 Chicago Literary Awards.
As a teacher, Lloyd found satisfaction in the number of students that published nationally and internationally while attending his English and journalism classes.
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Books
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Short Stories
Our Hart, Episode 24 by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on the true love story that Sir Robert Hart did not want the world to discover. He saved an empire and was the only Westerner the Emperor of China trusted. In November, the ARP copy earned an ho...
Our Hart, Episode 23 by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on the true love story that Sir Robert Hart did not want the world to discover. He saved an empire and was the only Westerner the Emperor of China trusted. In November, the ARP copy earned an ho...
Our Hart, Episode 22 by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on the true love story that Sir Robert Hart did not want the world to discover. He saved an empire and was the only Westerner the Emperor of China trusted. In November, the ARP copy earned an ho...
Our Hart, Episode 21 by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on the true love story that Sir Robert Hart did not want the world to discover. He saved an empire and was the only Westerner the Emperor of China trusted. In November, the ARP copy earned an ho...
Our Hart, Episode 16 by Lloyd Lofthouse
The love story that Sir Robert Hart did not want the world to discover. He saved an empire and was the only Westerner the Emperor of China trusted. Without him, God's Chinese son would have destroyed...
Our Hart, Episode 20 by Lloyd Lofthouse
Our Hart is based on the true love story that Sir Robert Hart did not want the world to discover. He saved an empire and was the only Westerner the Emperor of China trusted....
Our Hart, Episode 19 by Lloyd Lofthouse
Our Hart is based on the true love story that Sir Robert Hart did not want the world to discover. He saved an empire and was the only Westerner the Emperor of China trusted....
Our Hart, Episode 18 by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a true story. This is the love story that Sir Robert Hart did not want the world to discover. He saved an empire and was the only Westerner the Emperor of China trusted....
Our Hart, Episode 17 by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a True Story. This is the love story that Sir Robert Hart did not want the world to discover. He saved an empire and was the only Westerner the Emperor of China trusted....
Our Hart, Episode 15 by Lloyd Lofthouse
The love story that Sir Robert Hart did not want the world to discover. He saved an empire and was the only Westerner the Emperor of China trusted. Without him, God's Chinese son would have destroyed...
A Night at the 'Well of Purity' by Lloyd Lofthouse
A short story based on a real event that took place in Vietnam in 1966.
This story was named a finalist in the 2007 Chicago Literary Awards....
Our Hart, Episode Fourteen by Lloyd Lofthouse
The sequel to My Splendid Concubine... based on a true story....
My Splendid Concubine, Episode One by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a real love story that took place in China during the nineteenth century.
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My Splendid Concubine-Episode Two by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a real love story that took place in China during the nineteenth century.
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My Splendid Concubine, Episode Three by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a real love story that took place in China during the nineteenth century.
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My Splendid Concubine, Episode Four by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a real love story that took place in China during the nineteenth century.
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My Slendid Concubine, Episode Five by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a real love story that took place in China during the nineteenth century.
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My Splendid Concubine, Episode Six by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a real love story that took place in China during the nineteenth century.
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My Splendid Concubine, Episode Seven by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a real love story that took place in China during the nineteenth century.
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My Splendid Concubine, Episode Eight by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a real love story that took place in China during the nineteenth century.
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My Splendid Concubine, Episode Nine by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a real love story that took place in China during the nineteenth century.
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My Splendid Concubine, Episode Ten by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a real love story that took place in China during the nineteenth century.
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My Splendid Concubine, Episode Eleven by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a real love story that took place in China during the nineteenth century.
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My Splendid Concubine, Episode Twelve by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a real love story that took place in China during the nineteenth century.
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My Splendid Concubine, Episode Thirteen by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a real love story that took place in China during the nineteenth century.
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Poetry
Symphony by Lloyd Lofthouse
Many do not hear His orchestra playing....
Rain by Lloyd Lofthouse
don't drowned...
Happy Faces by Lloyd Lofthouse
Could this be politically incorrect?...
Curtain Calls by Lloyd Lofthouse
The things we learn living a day at a time....
Mountain Memoires by Lloyd Lofthouse
Some things we want to live forever....
The Darkness by Lloyd Lofthouse
about the end of our time-
maybe?...
Delicious Target by Lloyd Lofthouse
It's amazing how stupid a guy can be when he's nineteen sitting in the open feeling sorry for himself. A 1966 memoir moment from Vietnam...
Combat Jazz by Lloyd Lofthouse
We know that the traditional tibal war 'dance' reaches back to the Greeks. The idea was to build courage; create fear....
Sublime Wrath on the Road to Hell by Lloyd Lofthouse
Blowing fuses or one's top fueled by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder...
Underground by Lloyd Lofthouse
A poetic memoir moment about being in the United States Marines in Okinawa prior to shipping out to Vietnam....
The Art of Shaving by Lloyd Lofthouse
A poetic memoir moment about being in the United States Marines learning to shave for the first time....
The Soulful Veteran Speaks by Lloyd Lofthouse
Soldiers do not come home from war without baggage....
Media Whores by Lloyd Lofthouse
Poltical poetry that may not be what you expect....
Teen Daughter on a School Night by Lloyd Lofthouse
Taking a homework break...
What Did Oxford Do? by Lloyd Lofthouse
After seventy-three-thousand words and one-hundred-ninety-four pages, this was screaming to be written....
values in China cause a result by Lloyd Lofthouse
This poem in a 'haibun'...
The First of All Virtues by Lloyd Lofthouse
This poem is a "haibun" comparing China with the West...
China & Tibet by Lloyd Lofthouse
Haibun is a Japanese form of poetry that combines prose and haiku. In this haibun, I have adapted the format into a political statement to fit the times....
Media Distorts by Lloyd Lofthouse
Haibun is a combinaton of prose and haiku poetry. In this haibun, I have adapted the format into a political statement to fit the times....
Confucian/Chinese Morality by Lloyd Lofthouse
Haibun is a combination of prose and haiku poetry. In this haibun, I have adapted the format into a political statement to fit the times....
Mao's Western Media Ghost by Lloyd Lofthouse
We live and learn. I certainly do and when I heard about another form of poetry, 'senryu'. I learned that 'senryu' fits what I'm writing about China. Now, the haibuns I write will be using a 'se...
Misguided Ignorance by Lloyd Lofthouse
Haibun is a combination of prose and haiku poetry. In this haibun, I have adapted the format into a poltical statement to fit the times. A tanka was added as a conclusion...
Chinese Women by Lloyd Lofthouse
This poem is a 'haibun'...
Mandate of Heaven by Lloyd Lofthouse
The poem is a 'haibun'...
China's Choices by Lloyd Lofthouse
The poem is a 'haibun'
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Articles
Xian by Lloyd Lofthouse
China's first capital....
The Crusading Spirit in Modern America by Lloyd Lofthouse
This is an abridged book review. ...
China in Transition, Part Three by Lloyd Lofthouse
China's prosperity changing faces....
The Power of Figurative Langauge to Enhance Fiction by Lloyd Lofthouse
Figurative language improves fiction and adds Power to your work....
Building Characters Through Conflicts by Lloyd Lofthouse
Learn how to improve the characters in your stories....
Book Review for The Caliphate by Lloyd Lofthouse
Book Review for Jack Stewart's Thriller...
Becoming Respectable by Lloyd Lofthouse
In the world of Self-Publishing...
First Eighteen Months by Lloyd Lofthouse
It's all about the publication, promotion blues....
Wai-nani by Lloyd Lofthouse
High Chiefess of Hawai'i, Her Epic Journey--a book review...
Six-Hundred Hours of a Life by Lloyd Lofthouse
This is a review for a powerful book. This novel was written by Craig Lancaster. I wrote the review....
Getting Lucky by Lloyd Lofthouse
hard boiled detective...
Longji Terraces by Lloyd Lofthouse
Climbing the Dragon's Back...
Impressions of Liu Sanjie by Lloyd Lofthouse
Take a trip to Southeast China with photos and text....
Connecting the Dots to Discover the Truth by Lloyd Lofthouse
Murder of an American Nazi by Tim Fleming
Publisher: Eloquent Books, New York, NY
ISBN # 978-1-60693-403-2
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2008 China Trip Continued by Lloyd Lofthouse
The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Southeast China...
A True Journey Through Fire by Lloyd Lofthouse
This is a story that should be chisled in granite and burned into the history books. We should never forget....
Book Review for Valley of the Shadow by Lloyd Lofthouse
Valley of the Shadow by Steven A. Knutson
ISBN: 978-1-60725-994-7...
Left, Right, Fact or Fiction by Lloyd Lofthouse
As a journalist, I seldom take what others say at face value....
Building Bridges of Understanding One Word at a Time by Lloyd Lofthouse
What does it take to move beyond ignorance?...
Humor out West by Lloyd Lofthouse
Book review for 'Shalom on the Range'...
Let There be Understanding by Lloyd Lofthouse
"Let There be Understanding" is an opinion piece with historical evidence to refute the Dalai Lama's claims that Tibet was never ruled by China prior to Mao's reoccupation in 1951....
Doing God's Bidding to Replenish the Earth by Lloyd Lofthouse
Review for: "Confessions from the Last Frontier" Author: Steven A. Knutson. ISBN 978-1-60643-970-8...
The Great Wall--The Dragon Returns by Lloyd Lofthouse
On September 26, 2008, we visited the Great Wall. ...
Summer Palace--The Return of the Dragon by Lloyd Lofthouse
September 25, 2008, The Summer Palace was first started by the Yuan Dynasty almost a thousand years ago....
The Return of the Dragon by Lloyd Lofthouse
From September 18 to October 15, we started in Shanghai and traveled through China from the northwest to the southwest.
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News
My Splended Concubine on The Author Show by Lloyd Lofthouse
Book Review and TV interview...
Our Hart wins at Nashville by Lloyd Lofthouse
The sequel to My Splendid Concubine wins literary award....
The Soulful Veteran by Lloyd Lofthouse
What does war do to the warriors that fight in them?...
Hollywood Book Festival Winner by Lloyd Lofthouse
My Splendid Concubine wins an honorable mention in general fiction...
So Many Precious Books, So Little Time by Lloyd Lofthouse
New Book Review from Canada for My Splendid Concubine...
Win a Free Copy by Lloyd Lofthouse
For "Crazy Normal" and/or "Our Hart"...
2009 San Francisco Book Festival by Lloyd Lofthouse
My Splendid Concubine won an honorable mention in General Fiction at the 2009 San Francisco Book Festival...
WNB TV Network by Lloyd Lofthouse
The Authors Show with Danielle Hampson...
The Romance of History by Lloyd Lofthouse
The past is a foreign country: they do things different there. L.P. Hartley...
Take a Virtual Book Tour by Lloyd Lofthouse
December 2008 through January 2009
Also drop by and visit Vietnam 1965 - 1966...
Radio86, about a Labor of Love by Lloyd Lofthouse
Radio86 broadcasts from Europe and England....
My Splendid Concubine's Kindle Edition by Lloyd Lofthouse
Link to an interesting piece in the media about the Kindle & Amazon.com released My Splendid Concubine on March 10, 2009, as a Kindle edition....
Authors Read by Lloyd Lofthouse
Lloyd Lofthouse, author, My Splendid Concubine, was a guest on Authors Read. ...
My Splendid Concubine by Lloyd Lofthouse
This novel, based on a real life love story, will be released in a second edition soon....
The Book Stacks by Lloyd Lofthouse
My Splendid Concubine was reviewed on The Book Stacks by JM....
Peeking Between the Pages by Lloyd Lofthouse
Review for My Splendid Concubine from Peeking Between the Pages....
The Tome Traveller's Weblog by Lloyd Lofthouse
Globe-trotting with my nose in a book!...
Ameican Chronicle by Lloyd Lofthouse
Published in the American Chronicle, December 31, 2008...
Interview at Fiction Scribe by Lloyd Lofthouse
Fiction Scribe had a potential audience of 7.5 million a month....
Book Czar Review by Lloyd Lofthouse
On December 16, 2008, 'Book Czar' published this review of 'My Splendid Concubine' on their Blog/Website....
2008 London Book Festival Winners by Lloyd Lofthouse
My Splendid Concubine was a winner...
Bad News and Good News by Lloyd Lofthouse
From Writer's Digest's 16th Annual International Self-Published Book Awards:...
PODRAM by Lloyd Lofthouse
My Splendid Concubine reviewed at PODRAM 11-19-08...
Another Internet Literary Environment for 'Manic Readers' by Lloyd Lofthouse
I read about this Website today and joined. It sounded interesting so I decided to share it. ...
Author Inteview on 'Writer in the Pines' by Lloyd Lofthouse
Musings on Life, Insights into Writing Process, and a Series of Author Interviews, from writer Marsha Ward, who finds herself living in a rual community in the forest. Talk about serendipity!...
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Events
Ascroft eh? 9/29/2009
An interview with the author of My Splendid Concubine...
The Query Queen 6/6/2009
Featured Author for Saturday, June 6
Since this interview is posted on a Blog, it is available 24/7...
Assessible World Presents 6/2/2009
The Accessible World is a division of Helping Hands for the Blind, a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit orgnization...
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 4/25/2009
Lloyd will have a book signing in booth #127...
Part 2 for the 2009 Los Angeles Festival of Books 4/25/2009
Two days at the 2009 Los Angeles Festival of Books...
WNB TV Network 4/19/2009
Danielle Hampson will be interviewing Lloyd Lofthouse about his novel, My Splendid Concubine...
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Links
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| My Splendid Concubine
There are links on the opening page to his Website to Podcasts of several of the talk shows Lloyd has been a guest on.
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History or His Story
My Splendid Concubine's first media review
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Additional information
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| "My Splendid Concubine" is Lloyd's first novel. It was a work of nine years that went deep into Chinese culture, history and the life of Sir.Robert Hart, a major historical character on the world's stage in China during the nineteenth century.
In March 2008, Lloyd was a guest on more than a doezen radio talk shows that broadcast from more than a hundred stations in North America. The topic: "Is China Really a Threat to the United States?"
In April 2008, Lloyd is scheduled to be a guest on more than five hundred radio station (due to syndication). Topic: "Are Olympic Protesters Endangering America?" |
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Contact
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My Splendid Concubine
PO Box 4221
Walnut Creek
CA
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