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Killing Christmas with an Alt-Right Play
Last night, trying to salvage our train-wreck of a holiday season, I took my family to watch a duet of David Sedaris plays at Ocean Beach Playhouse. This turned out to be nearly as bad as losing my car...
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Rumba at the Rizal!
Some writers have video book trailers for their novel. I got to write a PLAY for my book trailer! Fourteen actors and a choreographer pack the scene with love, death and dance. Rumba at the Rizal, a...
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Ready to Rhumba!
Catch the final shows this weekend. I’ll be speaking on the Playwright’s panel that follows this Friday’s show. Hope to see you there! Filed under: Blog
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Show Time!
Writing is typically a solitary activity — just me sitting on the love seat, typing, while the cats look on from the other couch. Consequently, watching actors perform your words is a true delight....
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The Mango Bride Turns Four
April 11 was the 4th anniversary of my novel’s publication date. That morning four years past, I rose at 6 and baked a 150 banana bread cupcakes; went to yoga class to stay centered, then came home and...
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A Mango Bride Cinderella at the AAAS Ball
I have no idea how The Mango Bride made it into the display of books by Asian American authors set out at the AAAS conference in Portland last April 15. It’s unlikely my publisher Penguin lobbied for...
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140 characters to capture an 85,082 word novel. Just 140 to snag the notice of a literary agent. Caught the eye of 7 agents and 2 indie publishers on #DVpit Twitter pitch event last Wednesday. Am...
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If You Read It They Will Come
How do you get the word out about your new novel that a) needs a literary agent and b) hasn’t yet been published? By acting like it already has both. I’m reading excerpts from The Rizal Dance Hall...
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Paradise Hills Library Gets it Right
A friend took this photo @ ParadiseHills library. The Mango Bride’s metaphor for love is food. So it’s so smart of them to put it next to Marvin Gapulto’s Adobo Road – a cookbook I actually use!Filed...
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The Mango Bride Sequel is… Advocacy for Domestic Violence Survivors
4 years after The Mango Bride was released, I continue to talk about advocating for survivors of domestic violence. So far, we’ve saved 9 immigrant survivors of domestic violence and raised additional...
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Pirates and Thieves
Even as I struggle to find a lit agent to rep my second novel, a google alert notifies me that a book I published 14 years ago, and whose digital edition was recently released, is now being offered...
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San Diego Beyond the Pale
After nearly two decades of attending literary events in San Diego at which I was the only or one of the very few people of color in the room, I finally decided to do something about it. (Certainly...
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Free Storytelling Event at the San Diego Central Library
It’s free, but please register at the link below so we know how much food to preparee -we want everyone to have their fill of rice cakes! http://sandiego.librarymarket.com/san-diego-beyond-paleFiled...
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Speculative Fiction
…is when I do a book tour for my unpublished novel until everyone is speculating when my new fiction will be published. My book tour begins in October. First stop: Fil-Am Book Festival in San...
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No Book Deal? No Problem
No literary agent? No book deal? No problem! My Speculative Fiction book tour for The Rizal Dance Hall Murder kicked off last Saturday with full Media coverage. Advertisements Filed under: Blog
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Speculative Fiction Book Tour – Third Stop
My SpecFiction book tour for The Rizal Dance Hall murder began, has been blessed with something new and exciting at each stop. First day at the Fil- Am Book Festival in San Francisco, it was a TV...
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Queen Latifah and Social Justice
Second stop on my Speculative Fiction Book Tour (in which I tour my unpublished, un-represented novel until folks begin to speculate when the heck my fiction will finally be published) is San Diego...
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I’m on the new Brown & Lit Podcast!
#Filipino food, #OwnVoices, #immigrant creation myths & the work of Celeste Ng and Jhumpa Lahiri are some of the fab topics covered in Princess Jones’s wonderful new podcast about #POC writers....
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Bad Hombres and Malas Mujeres Speak Up
Each of the four immigrant authors who spoke on this panel I moderated last night offered moving accounts of their immigrant journeys. Hope’s family escaped Idi Amin’s genocide and landed in Minnesota;...
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Book Club Bingo!
Delighted to be one of the 20 authors speaking at this whole day event, that benefits the San Diego Central Library, and brings book clubs closer to the authors of the novels they read. If you’re in...
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