Success Stories
"S u c c e s S t o r i e S"
By
Ernie Delfin,
Donna Delfin-Nguyen
EJ Rivera Delfin
A compilation of bitter-sweet stories of
lst Generation Filipino Americans
and their
ABCs (American Born Children)
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
It will be a collection of 100 "Success Stories" authored by 50 first Filipino American parent (like Ernie Delfin) and his daughter (Donna Delfin) who is an American born. These parent-child essays will be penned by 49 other Filipino American parents and their ABCs (American Born Children) throughout the United States ideally from Alabama to Wyoming .
The book will be approximately between 300-400 pages that will chronicle the interesting saga and paint a colorful autobiographical landscape of the Filipino American experience the last 50 years or so, written by Filipinos who came to America from different regions and provinces of the Philippines. The authors collectively will represent a wide gamut of Philippine American society, professions, trades, interests and philosophies. These Filipino adventurers arrived in America with as many reasons as there were immigrants. After many summers stay in America , they decided to stay and raise their families in their adopted country with as many varied reasons as any other immigrant groups that came to America .
The book is about their bitter-sweet success stories, their personal struggles, their determination, their journey to reach their own personalized version of success, often called the "American dream".
The project is in full swing but to make it more comprehensive and to get the "best of the best samples" of the Filipino American experience the last half a century, we need another two dozen "successful" parents (husband or wife must be a Filipino first degree immigrant) with their "successful" American Born Children (ABC) to pen their own success stories (about 2,000 words for both parent and child) to be included in the book. It is our aim that the 50 authors will be well spread to many cities or states as possible, to cover as many professions or occupations, as possible and age groups as practicable.
We can easily get 50 of these parent-child authors in in the West Coast, especially California and Hawaii where the greatest concentration of Filipinos reside but we especially need more participating authors from other states too, like, Alabama. Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Ohio, South Dakota, Maine, Rhode Island, Mississippi and many states where the Filipino Americans have made their mark.
Any inquiry is welcome and any recommendation for that right Filipino American parent-child success story is appreciated. Contact information is at the end this announcement.
TIMETABLE:
lst half of 2008 - Marketing the project idea to as many Filipino
American professional groups, peers and civic,
community organizations
2nd half of 2008 - Manuscripts from potential authors start to
arrive . Artwork, graphics, cover design work
completed
Dec. 31, 2008 - Hopefully the 100 "SuccesStorieS " are received
1st Quarter 2009 - Editing, preparation, Consultations with other
Journalists and authors continue
Spring 2009 - Fine Tuning of the project, More aggressive
Marketing
June-July 2009 - Book Launching
Rest of 2009 - Book Tour as often as possible,
wherever there is a need
CONTACT INFORMATION:
ERNIE DELFIN (714) 742 1365 ernie.delfin@gmail.com
DONNA DELFIN-NGUYEN (714) 336-6300 donnadelfin@yahoo.com
Mailing address:
P. O. Box 8701
Fountain Valley , CA 92708
POSTSCRIPT:
To date, we have interested authors covering the following states:
Alaska, Hawaii, California, Utah, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Arizona, Philadelphia, Virginia, Maryland, Texas, Guam, Minnesota, Colorado, Washington State, Washington D.C. North Carolina , Arkansas , New Mexico