The woman who put a cocktail in one hand and a tile in the other.
Megan Sinclair Osmundsen is the author of Mahj plus Mix, The Little Book of American Mahjong and Crafted Cocktails, published in June 2026 by Andrews McMeel. Half of it teaches the game, the basics and a bit of genuine strategy about what to hold and what to let go, and the other half teaches you what to pour while you play. By her own telling she went looking for a fun little mahjong gift to give a friend, could not find one anywhere, and decided the only sensible response was to write it herself.
She is based in the Kansas City area and spent years in publishing before this, and she tested every recipe at her own table with her husband as a willing assistant, so these are drinks that were poured and played with rather than invented on paper. The drinks are batched to serve a foursome, because a host should not have to play bartender between hands, and the names turn the whole card into a cocktail menu, a Crakmopolitan here and a Joker Jalapeno Margarita there, with mocktails too so the table stays kind to everyone at it. Prim featured her in a letter arguing that the meal and the game were always one gathering, and found in Megan that whole argument made into a hardcover you can wrap.
Written from what the letter said. Read the letter for the whole of it.