![]() ![]() I’m not interested in confirming what the reader knows (or thinks they know) about this world, I want to violate the rules of genre, narrative, and form to find new ways to tell stories about being Japanese/French/British, which is the premise of my debut short story collection, COUNTERFACTUAL LOVE STORIES & OTHER EXPERIMENTS and my choose-your-own-adventure memoir about mixed-race/hapa identity, DREAM POP ORIGAMI. I think one unique aspect of my writing is that I play with form, structure, and storytelling in all my books, centering ideas, language, and creativity over obvious plot lines, car explosions, or clichés. ![]() I write about mixed-race/hapa identity, AAPI/BIPOC masculinities, urban culture, and the redemption of love and art in our broken world. ![]() Every person thinks they have a book inside them but most don’t have the discipline to work on it for three to twenty years.Īlright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally? Movie adaptations of books don’t have to be faithful (and rarely are).Ħ. ![]() People constantly underestimate how much time it takes to write, rewrite, and revise a publishable manuscript.ĥ. The New York publishing industry is comprised mostly of white, cishet women whose target reading demographic is white, cishet women.Ĥ. Celebrities don’t write their own memoirs (but they still get massive advances that other writers would die for).ģ. ![]()
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