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.
…is when I do a book tour for my unpublished novel until everyone is speculating when my new fiction will be published.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 Francisco.
I’m giving a presentation on the archival research that went into The Rizal Dance Hall Murder at the Learning Studio, 5th floor San Francisco Public Library, on Saturday afternoon October 7, from 12:15 – 1:15.
Professor Linda Maram will present a more scholarly perspective on the topic. Her marvelous book Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles’s Little Manila provided much of the historical details I employed in my novel about California’s working class Filipinos in the 1930s.
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 took me long enough.) San Diego Beyond the Pale offers six writers of color the chance to take center stage while wipipo and everyone else get to sit down and listen. For a change.
Our Storytelling event features stories of immigration, assimilation, peacemaking and reconciliation in San Diego is part of this year’s https://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/news-events/onebook selection. The event is up on the San Diego Public Library site The event is free and open to the public (of all colors!) and refreshments will be served. Please register at the link below so that we can prepare enough food for all.
Parental advisory: some texts contain strong language that may not be appropriate for young children.