Move over Legend of Korra and make way for The Legend of Kira -Author Ellen Oh sits down w/ Twinja Book Reviews

We heard about this lovely author after a very emotional blog post she wrote, Why being a POC author sucks sometimes. In that post she spoke candidly about how invisible one can feel being an Author of Color. After further probing, we found out that she's really, really, REALLY passionate about multiculturalism in books, tv shows, hell all types of media! Any author who speaks so freely on diversity in books is bound to catch our attention and that's exactly what she did! So now we'd like to open the floor for the outspoken, the driven, the passionate....... Ellen Oh


1.Please Ellen, tell the readers of Twinja Book Reviews who you are and what urged you to become an author?

Thank you for having me here! Well, I was a practicing attorney for 15 years before turning to academia and writing. I left the law to focus on teaching and writing and now I get to live this fabulous life writing books I love and getting paid for it!

2.Your latest book, The Prophecy takes place in a fictional Korea that appears to be an all Asian cast of characters. Was it a tough sell to publishers?

Although it was a long road to publishing, filled with people who told me that no one would ever buy a book based in ancient Korea, when I actually went on submission with what is now Prophecy, it sold in a week. I was incredibly lucky to have found the absolute best editor out there for my book. She loved Prophecy and believed in the trilogy. I am so grateful that Joe Monti, who was my agent at the time, put me together with Phoebe Yeh, my editor. It has been the best thing that ever happened to me!