Behind the Red Curtain, a Memoir

Reading from an Excerpt: "The Octagonal Oven."

2012-02-05T19:01:00.000-08:00

My niece, Yannie, and daughter Tanisha helped bring this episode to life, adding youthful expression and a good American accent to the reading. I tested this enactment of my memoir for family members in our annual Christmas show this year. It befitted the occasion. I should have adapted it into a theater show to gain better audience acceptance. But we had no preparation time.

The girls were willing readers. And I thought, why not bring the past back for them to glimpse, it was their legacy. However, the audience did not like the long reading, saying it bored them. I admitted the language barrier was insurmountable.

What do my readers think? Any suggestions?

Inlandia Reading - November 2011

2012-01-18T13:46:00.001-08:00

Book Trailer

2011-07-21T04:57:00.000-07:00

Reading at Riverside Main Library

2011-06-03T21:04:00.001-07:00

California Writers Week - Reading at Borders

2011-03-05T12:58:00.000-08:00

Query...Preparation for a book birth

2011-02-27T23:52:00.000-08:00

Pitching, marketing, selling, etc. brief! All these terms mean the basic thing: to give a book a chance to be born.