My journey into an attempt to understand how my ethnic identity was formed led me to write a memoir that I eventually published in 2005 as "Southern Fried Rice: Life in A Chinese Laundry in the Deep South." Most people I know in California are puzzled when they learn of my southern roots, wondering why my parents settled in Georgia where there were so few Chinese. I soon realized that here was an important story to preserve and share but no one was recording this bit of the Chinese American experience. At the same time, I felt the market would be small and no major publisher would take the financial risk with it. In fact, my hometown university press liked the story but declined to publish it precisely for this reason. Thus, I turned to publish-on-demand (POD) printing. This web journal describes this process as well as some of the experiences I encountered in my efforts to promote the book myself using 'guerilla marketing.'
The site will not discuss book content and objectives as other sites exist for that purpose: http://www.lulu.com/amazinggrace. One of my hopes in describing my experiences in getting the word out
about my book and its message is that the lessons I learned may be
helpful to other authors struggling to get their work recognized.
Next Page: "My Book Promotion"Tour"
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