The Book Launch event for the Where Are You From? anthology was a success! We had around 35 people. It was a diverse crowd, and we sold all the books we had on hand. Two authors even flew in from California. It was my first time promoting a book. As we continue to promote, I’ll share whatever insights I have.
It was particularly fun hearing Lawson Inada speak and hearing three of the authors reading. Reading is a solitary endeavor, but it was quite powerful to hear the words from the authors themselves, along with their own background and how they arrived where they are.
Nice!
All the best! Your anthology certainly deserves a place in every Asian American family’s library!
Thanks, Raguel!
Keep up the good work! I’m still waiting for my copy to arrive from the states – sometimes it takes weeks for packages to get through – that’s why I haven’t mentioned it on my blog. I want to see how my contribution turned out before I venture a word!
I hope that other activists follow the example of your group and go the self-publishing route. That way we might stand a better chance as a community of developing a more autonomous voice that doesn’t require our stories to be diluted in order to not appear threatening to the mainstream.
Thanks, Ben! I wish you could’ve been there. It was really cool. Beth and Dmae read their work, and Michael spoke about his life.
I think you’ll like how it turned out!