Paula Yoo

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Good Enough

Paula Yoo scores big in her hilarious debut novel about an overachiever who longs to fit in and strives to stand out. Available at amazon.com

All About Yoo! (Well, me, really... hee!)

By Paula Yoo - Posted on February 6th, 2008

Yoo @ 2 years old!

Paula Yoo is an acclaimed children’s book author and novelist, TV drama screenwriter, and musician. Her debut novel, GOOD ENOUGH, was released February 5, 2008 from HarperCollins. She is also the author of the children’s non-fiction picture book, Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story (illustrated by Dom Lee), published by Lee & Low Books in 2003. It won the Lee & Low 2003 New Voices Award, received starred reviews from BookList and Kirkus Reviews, and was on the 2006 Texas BlueBonnet Masterlist and the IRA 2006 Notable Book list. Her second picture book, Shooting Star: The Anna May Wong Story, about legendary screen star Anna May Wong, will be illustrated by Lin Wang and published in Spring 2009 by Lee & Low Books.

Photo courtesy KOREAM JOURNAL magazine

Paula’s TV writing credits include NBC’s The West Wing, FOX’s Tru Calling, The N (Paramount/MTV cable network)’s Beyond the Break, The CW’s Hidden Palms, and LIFETIME’s Side Order of Life. She graduated with a B.A. cum laude in English from Yale University, an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College, where she was the recipient of the prestigious Larry Levis Fellowship in Fiction. Before becoming a full-time author and screenwriter, she was a journalist (staff feature writer/reporter for The Seattle Times, The Detroit News, and PEOPLE Magazine’s Los Angeles bureau).

Yoo @ The Roxy in LA (Oct. 2007) Yoo @ age 7!

When not writing, Paula is a professional freelance violinist. Classically trained, Paula studied violin at the Hartt School of Music and Yale University and was concertmaster of the Detroit Civic Symphony Orchestra, principal second of the Yale Symphony Orchestra, and a member of the Santa Monica and Torrance Symphony Orchestras. She has performed numerous classical chamber music recitals throughout the LA area, including concerts with the Los Angeles Chamber Players. Paula also loves playing alternative rock on her Fender electric violin and Celtic fiddle! She has performed, toured, and recorded with a number of national rock acts including Arthur Lee of Love, Spiritualized, The Dilettantes, Dylan Campbell, Kathleen "Bird" York, Anne McCue, Bright Blue Gorilla, The NOW People, Kissing Cousins, Wait Think Fast, Emma Burgess, Buck McCoy, Listing Ship and Random AOK.

Paula's totally awesome brother DAVID YOO is also a writer!

David Yoo, author of Girls for Breakfast

He is the author of the acclaimed YA novel Girls for Breakfast (Delacorte, 2005) and has a new YA novel called Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before coming out this October 2008 from Hyperion!

In fact, David even generously re-designed Paula's GOOD ENOUGH book cover to be so much more beautiful and eye-catching...

New Good Enough Cover courtesy of David Yoo

You can also find Paula at her myspace sites:

http://www.myspace.com/paulayoo

http://www.myspace.com/paulayooviolin

Links

By Paula Yoo - Posted on March 1st, 2008

Hello! I will be updating this site often with links, lots and lots of links! Check 'em out! And keep coming back to check for newly added links!

MY MYSPACE PAGES: I do have two myspace pages, one promoting my writing career and the other one promoting my freelance music career. Check 'em out - and if you are on myspace, please be my friend!

http://www.myspace.com/paulayoo

http://www.myspace.com/paulayooviolin

FUSION STORIES

This year's Asian Pacific American Heritage Month begins May 1, 2008, and ten authors are banding together to offer FUSION STORIES (www.fusionstories.com), a menu of delectable next-gen hot-off-the-press novels for middle readers and young adults. FUSION STORIES' critically acclaimed authors so far include Cherry Cheva (Los Angeles, CA), Justina Chen Headley (Seattle, WA), Grace Lin (Boston, MA), An Na (Montpelier, VT), Mitali Perkins (Boston, MA), Janet Wong (Princeton, NJ), Joyce Lee Wong (Los Angeles, CA), Lisa Yee (South Pasadena, CA), David Yoo (Boston, MA), and Paula Yoo (Los Angeles, CA).

Fusion Stories aims to be a helpful resource for parents, educators, young readers, and the media. The entire press kit package is available at FUSION STORIES, www.fusionstories.com. The press kit includes downloads, bios of FUSION STORIES authors, information on their books, and conversations with experts about Asian American literature for young readers.

For more information, review copies, or interview requests with any of the authors, please contact press@fusionstories.com. Below is a list of the authors' links:

CHERRY CHEVA
JUSTINA CHEN HEADLEY
GRACE LIN
AN NA
MITALI PERKINS
JANET WONG
JOYCE LEE WONG
LISA YEE
DAVID YOO
PAULA YOO

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