Indie Spotlight is our
monthly column on self-publishing. This month, Raelee Chapman talks to indie
author G.L Tysk.
G.L Tysk was born in Chicago to Hong Kong Immigrants and her
novels focus on early American whaling history and its impact, 19th
century colonialism, and Asian and Pacific Islander immigrant culture. Her
first novel The Sea-God at Sunrise is
based on the story of John Manjiro one of the first Japanese people to live and
work in America. It took four years to research and reached the quarter finals
of the 2013
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. It has also been well
received on Goodreads with above 4 out of 5 stars as an average rating. G.L Tysk’s new novel Paradise,
the sequel to Sea-God at Sunrise, was
released in February 2015.