Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the 90s to Now, March 2022

The Asian American Reality Hall of Fame, William Hung, and Dance Crew Revolution

So proud and honoured to be a contributor to this compendium of Asian American pop culture conceived of, curated, written, and edited by my friend Jeff Yang and his pals/peers Phil Yu and Philip Wang. Australians can buy it through Booktopia and Dymocks. On sale now!

Single-Issue Publications for Jacket LLC and 10Ten Media, 2021-present

Special magazines on topics such as Prince Philip, West Side Story, and more

Beginning in February 2021, I collaborated with my fellow Time Inc veterans Bob Der and Larry Hackett on making single-issue bookazines for distributor Bauer Media North America. The joy in them comes in putting a concept together, bringing the best team to produce it, and seeing readers fall in love with the end result. When time permitted, I got to write a few of the stories, too, along with editing all of the copy and writing a ton of captions. Thank you to The Pod (you know who you are) for bringing joy to 2021 and beyond. Below are covers for all the issues we produced in 2021, and a sample feature I wrote within the West Side Story issue.

ESL: Moving to the Next Level, February 2022

A magazine commemorating 20 years of esports company ESL

What began as a few commissioned articles turned into some project management and a lot of education on gaming! Thank you to publishing company Finesse Unique for bringing me on board and for Isabel Krause, the communications manager for ESL at the time, for being great partners on this book, available as a digital magazine on Zinio and soon at live ESL events. Among the chapters I wrote and reported are features on the fan experience, merchandising, gaming for good, careers at ESL, and the science of esports. Thank you also to all the interviewees for their time, the photographers, and designer Stacy Kovatch. Below is the cover and the masthead for the issue, plus one of the stories I wrote. I also did the ad copy for MSI!

Star Wars: Creatures, Ships & Droids, October 2016

A Poster-a-Page book for kids 6-11

For this Star Wars fan, working with colleagues Bob Der and Andrea Woo to produce this poster guide to creatures, ships and droids was an absolute blast. I got a rare chance to look through Disney/Lucasfilm art archives to help pick the best items to include and got to decide which ones deserved which kind of treatment (bullet-point facts, trivia question, movie quotes and summary). The good thing is you can still buy this book on Amazon! I've included below a sampling of the sorts of info and writing required to make effective "cards."

 

CBS Watch! Survivor Special Issue

The Birth of a Series

Thanks to Lori Dellicolli and Chris Ender at CBS, I got a chance to revisit the origin of Survivor for their 30th season commemorative issue, published on the eve of season 30 in February 2015.