So for a few weeks now, I’ve been getting a significant amount of traffic from China. Nowhere in particular, and as far as I can tell completely incidentally (almost all of the hundreds of visits last less than a few seconds). I can only assume that I wrote something that flagged somebody toward my site for some random reason?
It’s a little weird. Not disturbing or anything like that, and hey, if my fiction is popular in China, amazing. There is some really fantastic Chinese sci-fi… I’m not a fan of the “Three Body Problem” series because the author’s outlook on the universe is too bleak (and the ending of the first book is very deus ex machina), but that aside, there are still some great works coming out. I’ve read a lot of short stories by both Chinese and Chinese-American writers, and gosh some of it is really good.
But I doubt that my books are very popular in China (if they are, they’re pirated). Just a weird little trend recently. But the upside is that my website is starting to get a more respectable number of weekly visits… no longer just 1 or 2 visits a day. And it’s nice to see that trend, even if I know it’s not for anything that I’m doing at the moment.
Who knows. Maybe someday people will visit my site for the books! A guy can only hope.
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!