The second novel of The Sword of the World Trilogy will appear in six weeks. Most of “Persimmon Tree” has been written for quite some time…maybe even twenty-four years.

“Persimmon” and “Persimmon Tree” were first birthed as one novel. It took several years to write and ran to 742 pages. Too big, I knew it, yet I hadn’t even started to rewrite and whittle it down.

The book was big and had a magnificent title. Sky Opening Day. That’s a national holiday celebrating the birth of the Korean peoples....