I thought only five people (including my agent) would read my debut memoir. I did not plan or manage my time well when writing my second book nor did I really expect to be an author. I keep telling everyone I’ll write another memoir when I’m 70 years old.Īt what point do you start diverting your energies from promoting your debut and writing / polishing / editing your second? She’s more impulsive and interesting than me, and she also has way more misadventures! I guess I’m excited to leave nonfiction behind. I’m more excited to talk about Iris Wang, the wild 17-year old protagonist of My Summer Of Love and Misfortune. I’m extremely grateful that people still want to read my debut, but I did 67 readings in 2019 alone, and I’m getting really bored of myself, haha. I am incredibly lucky to be promoting both of my books, although I have to admit, I’m a little bit exhausted from reading and talking about my memoir. My debut was a darkly comedic memoir titled The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug-Raids, Demons And My Crazy Chinese Family (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018), and it’s a very different book than my YA debut, My Summer of Love And Misfortune (Simon Pulse ), which is a fun, lighthearted summer beach read. Her email is it hard to leave behind the first novel and focus on the second? Wong is an adjunct professor of creative writing at The University of British Columbia.įollow her on or visit her website. My Summer of Love and Misfortune is her first YA novel. She has a BFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA in literary nonfiction from Columbia University, and is now based in Vancouver, Canada.
Today’s guest for the SNOB is Lindsay Wong, the best-selling, award-winning author of the memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug-Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family, which won the 2019 Hubert-Evans Prize for Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the 2018 Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction and was defended by Joe Zee on Canada Reads 2019.
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