TV Tuesday: Good Enough – Live Long and Prosper

TV Tuesday: Good Enough – Live Long and Prosper

Good Enough paperback release this June 7, 2011!

Welcome to TV Tuesday, where I normally blog about my adventures as a Producer/writer on the SyFy series EUREKA and give advice/information on how to break into the TV industry. But this week is special – today marks the official paperback release of my YA novel GOOD ENOUGH!

The paperback version of my YA novel GOOD ENOUGH (HarperCollins ’08) is out today, June 7, 2011! GOOD ENOUGH was a 2009 Honor Book for the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, a 2009 Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choice, and one of the 2009 Most Humorous YA Books by the New York Public Library, as well as a finalist for the South Carolina YA Book Award and the Missouri Gateways Readers Award. It is currently a finalist for the 2011-12 Nebraska Golden Sower Award!

Because today is a TV Tuesday blog, I thought I’d blog briefly about the TV shows that my novel’s main character, Patti Yoon, likes to watch. In a nutshell, Patti’s a violin geek who loves sci fi. She especially loves STAR TREK.

(Keep reading after the jump for more of TV Tuesday…)

I grew up watching the original STAR TREK series. When I was a kid, STAR TREK had long been cancelled and was showing constantly in reruns. I remember being so excited to see an Asian American as a major character on the show. Back in the ’70s, it was so rare to see Asian Americans in major roles on TV. So Sulu was one of the big reasons I started watching STAR TREK! (I would later interview George Takei when I was a reporter for The Detroit News, but let’s save that for a future TV Tuesday blog!)

In college and my early 20s, it was all about STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. To this day, I still quote that show constantly. I think I drive the EUREKA writers’ room batty with my daily ST:TNG references. I’m always saying something like, “You know, that story pitch reminds of the episode in Star Trek: Next Gen when Data and Picard…” LOL! Fortunately everyone in the EUREKA writers’ room is a sci fi fan, so no one minds my constant ST:TNG references. Uh… at least I think no one’s gotten tired of my ST:TNG endless chatter. 🙂

I have seen every single episode of all the Star Trek series, all the old movies and the Next Gen movies, and of course I saw the JJ Abrams’ Star Trek, too! And as a regular visitor to Las Vegas, I of course went to the Star Trek Hilton casino when it used to exist.

Finally, and I can’t believe I’m doing this, here is a picture of me back in 1992 when some friends and I visited Universal Studios in Florida. We were all attending the Poynter Institute of journalism on a college journalism fellowship, and of course we were all Trekkies. Universal Studios had this Star Trek feature where you dressed up as Star Trek characters and said certain lines or did certain actions while you were being filmed against a green screen. Then they edited the video to show the entire “movie” with you featured in it! It was so fun. And yes, so geeky. Can you find me?

Live Long and Prosper! 🙂

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Well, that’s it for TV Tuesday. Stay tuned for Writer Wednesday, where I reveal how GOOD ENOUGH was written and how it got published as we celebrate the paperback release this week! Until then, Happy Writing! WRITE LIKE YOU MEAN IT! 🙂

 

6 Responses

  1. TeresaR says:

    Now I know why I like you so much – a fellow Trekker (or do you prefer Trekkie?)! Woohoo! 😉

    I started watching ST:TOS in ’68 when it first syndicated in Hong Kong. I have had a crush on Spock ever since. Needless to say, my least favorite TOS episode is This Side of Paradise. LOL!

    I’m so envious you got to wear a Star Fleet uniform! I’ve always wanted to make/have one of my very own.

    • paulayoo says:

      OMG this is so funny u 2 r a Trekker/Trekkie. I prefer both cuz I like both original and new. 🙂 U rock! 🙂

  2. Miranda Paul says:

    Thanks, Paula! Now I have the courage to confess my TNG obsession.

    Congrats on the paperback release and all of your success with Good Enough!

  3. Paula, congrats on the book release as well as your Star Fleet service! Bruce

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