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 »
San Francisco, how do I love thee? Let me tweet the ways (<140 characters)
Posted in Literary Awards, Twitter, Writing Process, tagged #twities, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Sandburg, City Lights, Howl, James Franco, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Lonely Planet, San Francisco, Twitter on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just a brief note. My ode to San Fran won the Lonely Planet #twities competition this week! The weekly contest sponsored by the Lonely Planet travel book series (@lonelyplanet on Twitter) asked people to tweet about San Francisco, New York or both (!) this week. I won the San Fran tweet, and thus got my [...]
