Maurene Goo

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Maurene Goo
BornLos Angeles, California, U.S.
LanguageEnglish
EducationBA in Communication, MFA in Publishing, Writing, and Literature
Alma materEmerson College
GenreYoung adult fiction
Years active2013–present
SpouseChristopher Appelhans (m. 2012)
Website
maurenegoo.com

Maurene Goo is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for her novel I Believe in A Thing Called Love. Her books have been translated into seven languages.[1]

Life and education[]

Maurene Goo was born in Los Angeles[2] and raised in Glendale, California.[3] She studied communication at UC San Diego.[4] She has a master's in publishing, writing, and literature from Emerson College. Prior to publishing her debut novel, Since You Asked, she worked in publishing.[5] Goo is of Korean descent.[6][3]

In 2012, she married illustrator Christopher Appelhans.[7] Their son was born in 2020.[8][9][10]

Career[]

Her sophomore novel, I Believe in A Thing Called Love, about a socially awkward Korean American teen who decides to follow a K-Drama formula to get a boy to fall in love with her, has received the most critical acclaim of all her publications so far.[11] It received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly[12] and Kirkus Reviews,[13] and landed on the best of 2017 and 2018 lists of CCBC,[14] Seventeen,[15] and Publishers Weekly.[16] In February 2020 it was announced that a film adaptation written by Yulin Kuang is in development with A-Major Media, with Byung-hun Lee and Charles Pak as producers.[17]

In February 2020 it was announced at C2E2 that Goo would be writing a new on-going comic series for Marvel Comics, about the Korean-American superheroine Silk, illustrated by Canadian comic book artist Takeshi Miyazawa who'd previously illustrated other comics set in the Spider-Verse.[18][19] The first issue was originally set for publication in July 2020, but pushed to October.[19]

Works[]

Young Adult Novels

  • Since You Asked (Scholastic, 2013)
  • I Believe in a Thing Called Love (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017)
  • The Way You Make Me Feel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018)
  • Somewhere Only We Know (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019)

Short Stories

  • in Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America (Simon Pulse, 2018)
  • in Come On In (Inkyard Press, 2020)

Comics series

  • Silk (Marvel Comics, 2020), illustrated by Takeshi Miyazawa

References[]

  1. ^ "Foreign editions". Maurenegoo. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
  2. ^ Cynthia (2018-07-13). "Read is the New Black: Author Interview with Maurene Goo". Read is the New Black. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  3. ^ a b Goo, Steph Cha interviews Maurene. ""So Many Stories to Tell": A Conversation with Maurene Goo". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
  4. ^ "Books". www.alumni.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
  5. ^ Gallucci, Kelly (2018-05-23). "Maurene Goo Dishes on Food Trucks, Frenemies, and The Way You Make Me Feel". Bookish. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
  6. ^ "Maurene Goo on Writing Relatable Characters and her Enduring Love of K Dramas » Public Libraries Online". Retrieved 2019-03-31.
  7. ^ "Dreamy California wedding: Maurene + Chris | Real Weddings | 100 Layer Cake". www.100layercake.com. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  8. ^ "Feel incredibly lucky that my son will grow up with his beautiful books. Rest In Peace". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  9. ^ "Home". Maurenegoo. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  10. ^ "My son turned seven months old today". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  11. ^ Farrell, Della. "13 Must-Read Titles for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
  12. ^ "Children's Book Review: I Believe in a Thing Called Love". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
  13. ^ I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LOVE by Maurene Goo | Kirkus Reviews.
  14. ^ "2018 Observations on Publishing". ccbc.education.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
  15. ^ Orenstein, Hannah (2018-01-16). "28 Totally Life-Changing YA Books That You Won't Be Able To Put Down". Seventeen. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
  16. ^ "Best Books 2017 Publishers Weekly". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
  17. ^ "Asian American Content Banner Launches With Valence Media Investment (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  18. ^ "Cindy Moon Returns in 'Silk' #1". Marvel Entertainment. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  19. ^ a b Grunenwald, Joe (2020-02-28). "Syndicated Comics". The Beat. Retrieved 2020-08-22.

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