🙋‍♀️ Q&A [FREE]: How I Landed My Book in The New York Times & Ran 250 Book Events with Curtis Chin

​What does it take to get your memoir featured in The New York Times, PBS NewsHour, and The Washington Post—and to personally organize over 250 book events across three continents? Do book tours really sell books, and if so, how do you make them happen?

​Join us for a candid Q&A with community member Curtis Chin, author of the memoir Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant. In the year since his book’s release, Curtis has been featured in major national media, selected for the Great Michigan Read, and taken his work on the road with an ambitious self-organized tour across the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

​In this session, Curtis pulls back the curtain on how he did it all without a formal marketing team. You’ll learn how he built buzz beyond his publisher, pitched to national press, and sustained momentum across hundreds of events.

​We’ll also explore:

• ​How Curtis landed national media coverage 

• ​The story behind his self-organized 250+ event book tour
  What makes a compelling pitch to bookstores, media, and institutions

• ​The financial and time investment behind book touring (and what pays off)

• ​Ways to generate momentum and community around your book

• ​Building buzz outside of your publisher’s marketing efforts

​About Curtis Chin 

​Curtis Chin is the author of the award-winning memoir, "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant." A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin served as the non-profits’ first Executive Director. He went on to write comedy for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries. Chin has screened his films at over 600 venues in twenty countries. He has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press and the Emancipator/Boston Globe. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Chin has received awards from ABC/Disney Television, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and more. His essay in Bon Appetit was just selected for Best Food Writing in America 2023 and his short doc, "Dear Corky" premiered on American Masters (PBS). He is currently working on a new docuseries on the history o Chines restaurants in America.

​​**Held immediately following our Writers’ Hour PT session, in the same room.** 

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