I had the unique experience this weekend of using speed dating techniques to sell my novel Dragon Chica to independent bookstore owners and staff in Los Angeles. Yes, it’s the famous SCIBA Authors Feast and Trade Show! This was my first time to be invited to the event sponsored by the Southern California Independent Booksellers [...]
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Speed Dating & Selling Books
Posted in Asian American Literature, Dragon Chica, Hollywood, Literary Awards, photos, pictures, Writing Process, tagged Beverly Fisher, Books Inc., Claire LaZebnik, Deborah Harkness, Diesel Books, Dragon Chica, GemmaMedia, Hollywood, How to Sell Books, Independent Book Stores, Ingram, Los Angeles, P.G. Sturges, Peter Hannan, SCIBA, Terry Laszlo Gopadze on October 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
My Father’s Mad Men Days, II
Posted in Asian American Literature, Asian Pacific American, family, Hollywood, photos, pictures, winberg chai, tagged 1950s, Advertising, Asian American History, Benton and Bowles, Mad Men, Madison Avenue, Name That Tune, New York City, Ted Bates, winberg chai on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As promised, here is the full-length article describing my father’s real life as a “mad man” in an advertising agency in NYC in the 1950s. This article was published in the Jakarta Post Weekender Magazine, November 2009. (pdf links if these images are too hard to read: mad-men-weekender-page 1 and mad-men-weekender-2nd page)
My Father’s “Mad Men” Days
Posted in Asian Pacific American, family, Hollywood, photos, pictures, winberg chai, tagged 1950s, Advertising, Asian American History, Don Draper, Hollywood, Mad Men, Madison Avenue, Name That Tune, Television, winberg chai on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A longer, more detailed version of this essay is going to appear in print in THE JAKARTA POST WEEKENDER MAGAZINE. (It will include juicy details about my father’s stint on “Name That Tune.”) I promise I’ll post a link if/when it’s available.
