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I rarely conduct interviews for my website, but when I do, I often center them on writers and storytellers who I either know or admire about their creative process and/or their latest project. This case scenario is particularly exciting for me, as this is a conversation with a filmmaker whose work I’ve come to admire and be inspired by over the years: Wesley Chan.
Continue reading “Wesley Chan on Re-Envisioning “Shell” Through New Sci-Fi Webseries”
I don’t do interviews in this neck of the Internet as often as I did during the first year of doing this blog. However, I occasionally make space to speak with a fellow writer on their own creative process. That’s what’s happening today, and what makes this interview really special is that it’s with someone who I interviewed on here before: Sarah Dayan Mueller.
Continue reading “Sarah Dayan Mueller on “Home in a Hundred Places” and Writing During the Pandemic”
Every time I think I’m going to do more interviews in this corner of the Internet, it doesn’t pan out into fruition. I’ve come to accept that that’s okay, for this is really a space for me to speak. However, that doesn’t mean I’m going to forfeit interviews completely, and I definitely have quite a conversation to share today. In the midst of COVID-19 altering life as we know it and finding ways to pass the time until these shelter-in-place orders are lifted, I figured that now is the best time to reach out and speak with an author whose books I grew up reading: Jerry Spinelli. Continue reading “In Conversation with Jerry Spinelli about the Journey of “Stargirl””
After going back and forth on whether or not this would be too self serving, I ultimately decided to go ahead and make the following video the focus for this month’s Recommended Analyzing piece. For those who don’t know, I am the latest subject for the Spotlight series from TFCU; a branch of The Filipino Channel that focuses its efforts on reaching out to and encouraging Filipino American college students to go after their aspirations and goals in life. In the video, I talk at length about my work as an author, blogger, playwright, and screenwriter.
Continue reading “Telling My Story for Video: Recommended Viewing”
I used to post interviews I’ve done with fellow writers, but it’s been a while since I last did one for this blog; about four years actually. I’m thinking of bringing that back in the new year to some extent, and it begins with my participation in the blog tour for Reno Ursal’s upcoming novel, Enlightenment; a coming-of-age story that fuses the paths of two people, by way of Filipino folklore.
Reno is a fellow Bay Area-based Filipino American author. He is an alumnus of the University of Michigan where he received his B.A. in English. While he has had work published in the past, Enlightenment is his debut novel and the first of his Bathala series. I now turn it to him on what Enlightenment is all about, how he got his start as a writer, his influences, etc.
Continue reading ““Enlightenment” Blog Tour: Getting to Know Author Reno Ursal”
As if the title of this blog post doesn’t already give it away, allow me to re-iterate: This Sunday, my very first TV interview is going to air. I recently had the pleasure to be interviewed for “Asian Pacific America with Robert Handa;” a weekly half hour talk show that discusses newsmakers, events, and other unique perspectives of the Asian American community here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I sat down with Robert to talk about both my novel, An Absolute Mind, and about “The Geek Show.” Continue reading “Special Friday Post: Tune in this Sunday for My First TV Interview!”
Hey everyone! So it’s normally not usual for me to announce when I’ve been interviewed for anything, but I’m making an exception in this case. Not only is the first interview in promotion of An Absolute Mind now online, but it also marks my first time on a podcast.
I’ve had the honor of being a guest on Alex Barnett’s Multiracial Family Man podcast. We talked a lot about my mixed race background, what it was like for me growing up, what it means to be mixed race in today’s time, and also how I incorporate the mixed race narrative into my two novels.
Many thanks to Alex for having me on the podcast! If you want to listen to it, check it out here.
Thanks for reading this special Sunday post, and I’ll be back on Saturday with my regularly scheduled post.
-Lauren
It’s a new day of a new year and to start things off for 2015, I figured I have a voice featured today of someone other than my own. It’s been a while since I last released an interview on here, so I thought it would be nice to do that again. As to the person who’s featured this time around, that honor goes to an incredible spoken word artist whom I’ve known since high school: Gretchen Carvajal.
Gretchen is more than just a fellow writer; she is someone whom I’ve always known for never hiding her voice, however that may be. She expresses her art and her stories through the means of being a writer, artist, emcee, and performer. She was born in the Philippines before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area when she was very young. She is currently a student in the First Wave program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has partaken in many spoken word competitions over the years- including the national youth competition, Brave New Voices, when she was 17- and was recently a participant in The Ill List; the signature poetry slam invitational in Modesto, California. She already has a chapbook under her belt called Daughter of the Sun and plans to write more books in the future to come. To learn more about her, be sure to check her out on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
Continue reading “8 Questions for Gretchen Carvajal”
In case you haven’t heard, I’m the subject of this week’s Spotlight Sunday on Zealous Script. I encourage you to check it out, along with my short story accompanying my interview called “The Waiting Game.” Many thanks to Tiana for featuring me today!
-Lauren
A few weeks ago, The Best Slice of Pie posted this amazing review of my debut novel, “A Moment’s Worth.” Now, they have their interview they did with me up online. Check it out!
Tell us a little about yourself…
My name is Lauren Lola. I’m 22-years-old and I’m from the San Francisco Bay Area in California. I’m a student at California State University, East Bay where I’ll be completing my major in Communication and minor in Theatre this fall. A Moment’s Worth is my debut novel.
We were all wondering which came first, the quote at the beginning or did you write the story and then tie it in with the book.
The book came first, more specifically a chapter; that chapter being Chapter 10: More Than Stars. I originally entered that in a writing competition about two years ago, and it was around that time that I was sort of released from this creative block that I had been dealing with for quite some time by then.
Suddenly all these ideas started coming to me as I went forward with writing this…
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