Diary of a Single Asian Female is about Candy, a young and beautiful Asian woman in New York City who is on a fun-filled and often hilarious journey to search for Mr. Right, and in the process, finds herself. Candy tries her shot at love to find Mr. Right, whom she pictures to be a doctor, a lawyer or an alpha male Wall-Street guy. She goes on a series of blind dates with men interested in interracial relationships with Asian women but keeps her modesty by sticking to The Rules. What she doesn't know is that she's going to have to kiss a few frogs before she can find her prince. Candy's best friend, Lucy, a married hedonistic foodie fashionista, offers entertaining advice. When Candy has trouble paying her insurmountable student loans, Lucy suggests a simple solution: a sugar daddy. Will Candy agree to such a seemingly unromantic arrangement? Or will she continue to seek true love? Can she have it all? Written by an Asian female New Yorker who is fluent in both English and Mandarin Chinese, this book delivers comic gold with stories such as "My Mother Found My Jia Ji Ji [Fake Penis or Dildo]" and "The Podiatrist Love Slave with the Foot Fetish." Make no mistake about it: this is a book your Asian mama would not approve! It's hot and steamy, full of juicy details about sex, cheating, and shopping. The good parts are oh so satisfying, just like that jia ji ji in the top drawer. BIG MYSTERIES: 1. What does Candy's mom discover? (Hint: it's really embarrassing) 2. Why did Mr. Alpha do what he did? 3. Who will buy Candy the Hermes Birkin? 4. Will Candy find a sugar daddy? 5. Who is Candy's Mr. Perfect? 6. How will Candy find true love? Read Diary of a Single Asian Female, a unique and amusing Asian romantic comedy, and find out! Fan mail for Diary of a Single Asian Female: "I absolutely love this! This is great-- I can totally relate as an Asian. WHEN IS YOUR BOOK COMING OUT??? I WILL BE THE FIRST TO ORDER IT ONLINE. I am going to bookmark this in case you update any more...thank you and have a beautiful day."(reader comment posted on Asiancandybook.blogspot.com.)"Super funny! Loved it!" "Your diary should be on the air! Your description is so interesting yet has great humor." "Comic gold!"About the Author: Candy Chan, the creator of SingleinManhattan.com, is an Asian-American New Yorker who grew up watching Sex and the City and wondering why there was not an Asian version of it on TV. Her friends constantly tell her she should do stand up comedy since her stories are really funny, but she prefers to tell her stories in writing. Thus, she wrote the book, Diary of a Single Asian Female, Dating Adventures in New York City. Candy immigrated to the United States as a young girl and has been going on dates with men in New York for a long time. She kept a diary for fun and therapy, and her book, Diary of An Asian Female, is a fictionalized version of that diary. What is true and what is fiction? You be the judge. Candy Chan lives in New York City and enjoys writing, eating, walking around and taking photos.For more information, visit Singleinmanhattan.com.Instagram @JustineCandyBooks

The sequel to Diary of a Single Asian Female: Dating Adventures in New York City: Candy is an Asian immigrant from Taiwan who arrived in New York City as a young girl, who continues her journey to find Mr. Right after a breakup with her doctor boyfriend due to racist remarks made by his family, all the while dealing with her overbearing Chinese mom. Candy lives in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan as a Mandarin nanny to the children of a billionaire. Candy goes on many dates to find a husband because, at age 26, her Chinese mama is saying that she's no spring chicken. Try as she might, Candy just cannot seem to get her ex-boyfriend out of her heart.Candy's best friend Lucy is a buxom blonde and blue-eyed MILF who is married to a man who does not love her. She, therefore, finds solace in other men. She is afraid of divorce for various reasons including that her husband has threatened to fight her with lawyers and her husband has power over her due to her daddy issues. In this sequel, Lucy finally leaves her white suburban house in the suburban outskirts of New York City to live in a luxury apartment in the Financial District of Manhattan, where she meets interesting neighbors in the rooftop lounge with a panoramic view of the city: an Asian actress with a house in the Hamptons, an Asian producer; a muscular massage therapist; and a gay man living with his husband who used to be married to a woman. Lucy is in love with a billionaire, but he seems to have lost interest in her after she gets her own place. Will Lucy get a second chance at love with her billionaire?Will Lucy and Candy find what they are looking for? Find out in the sequel of Diary of a Single Asian Female...Single in Manhattan.Diary of a Single Asian Female:A dark romantic comedy about a poor young Asian immigrant girl pursuing love and sex in New York City while dealing with the tiger mom from hell.What is sweet and sour, and just a little bit salty? Asian candy. Candy Lin, age 25, a beautiful young immigrant Asian woman in New York City, lives in an Upper East Side mansion and pursues the glamorous life in New York City, and in the process, finds herself. Candy has a secret she's ashamed to reveal. She's addicted to Asian candy. She has dreams of becoming a writer someday, so she keeps a diary of funny and embarrassing things that happen to her and blogs on SingleinManhattan.com. Occasionally, we see flashbacks of her life when she was in high school and college, age 17 to 24.Diary of a Single Asian Female is about Candy, who is on a fun-filled and often hilarious journey to find Mr. Right.Candy tries her shot at love to find Mr. Right, whom she pictures to be a doctor, a lawyer or an alpha male Wall-Street guy. She goes on a series of blind dates with men interested in interracial relationships with Asian women but keeps her modesty by sticking to The Rules. What she doesn't know is that she's going to have to kiss a few frogs before she can find her prince. Candy's best friend, Lucy, a married hedonistic foodie fashionista, offers entertaining advice. When Candy has trouble paying her insurmountable student loans, Lucy suggests a simple solution: a sugar daddy. Will Candy agree to such a seemingly unromantic arrangement? Or will she continue to seek true love? Can she have it all? Written by an Asian female New Yorker who is fluent in both English and Mandarin, this book delivers comic gold with stories such as "My Mother Found My Jia Ji Ji [Fake Penis or Dildo]" and "The Podiatrist Love Slave with the Foot Fetish." Make no mistake about it: this is a book your Asian mama would not approve! It's hot and steamy, full of juicy details about sex, cheating, and shopping. The good parts are oh so satisfying, just like that jia ji ji in the top drawer. Fan mail:"This book should be on TV!""I absolutely love this! I can totally relate as an Asian.""Comic Gold!"

“Heartbreakingly inspirational.” (AsianWeek) Ma Yan's heart-wrenching, honest diary chronicles her struggle to escape hardship through her persistent, sometimes desperate, attempts to continue her schooling. In a drought-stricken corner of rural China, an education can be the difference between a life of crushing poverty and the chance for a better future. But for Ma Yan, money is scarce, and the low wages paid for backbreaking work aren't always enough to pay school fees, or even to provide enough food for herself and her family. The publication of The Diary of Ma Yan was an international sensation, creating an outpouring of support for this courageous teenager and others like her . . . all due to one ordinary girl's extraordinary diary. "You don't review this small book; you tell people about it and say, 'Read it.'" (Washington Post)

The story of a modern Asian young woman trying to straddle Western attitudes and traditional beliefs. You've heard of an Essex Girl or even a Chelsea Girl but what is a Hounslow Girl? The term has become a byword for confident, young Muslim women who are grappling with traditional values, city life and fashion. From the joys of Pakistani weddings to fights on the night bus, Ambreen Razia's The Diary of a Hounslow Girl is a funny, bold, provocative play highlighting the challenges of being a teenage girl in a traditional Muslim family, alongside the temptations and influences of growing up in and around London. “Ambreen’s writing is poetic in its structure and intensity, funny, moving, chilling, and delivered in a style that takes inspiration from spoken word and physical theatre. She has created a rhythm that draws the audience in, as compelling as a thriller, complete with gathering ominousness, shocks and comic relief.” Deborah Bestwick, Director, Ovalhouse “Ambreen Razia’s terrific play is exactly the kind of new work we wish to support in the new home of multi-cultural theatre in London. Hounslow Girl is a wonderfully funny take on a London phenomenon and one audiences will enjoy.” Jatinder Verma, Artistic Director, Tara Arts” "a powerful piece of theatre... Ambreen Razia's performance is astonishing." BritishTheatre.com "This is a sophisticated, moving and often very funny piece of writing, particularly nuanced in its depiction of Shaheeda's relationship with her mother ... astute in tackling the breakdown of the loving bonds between parent and child that can occur when a child becomes a teenager – and also how this experience can be magnified for the children of first-generation immigrants, whose parents feel distant from their children’s British lives... Razia's script touches on everything from first love to cultural expectations to student-teacher relationships; it’s a bit like an inner-city version of An Education." The Stage Ambreen Razia is an actress and writer from South London. The Diary of a Hounslow Girl is Ambreen's debut show which premiered at Ovalhouse in 2015. Passionate about re-establishing British Asian comedy within the UK, she continues to write her comedy sketch show involving two British Asian girls exploring the clash between traditional Indian/Pakistani culture and modern British life. She is also currently writing her next play POT primarily focusing on the recent comeback of gang culture within the UK. Performance credits include: On the Middle Day (Old Vic Theatre); Words and Women (Edinburgh Fringe); Random Acts (Channel 4); Fair Exchange (Hen and Chickens Theatre); Variations on a Theme (Camden People's Theatre); Mind the Gap (National Theatre); No Guts, No Heart, No Glory (BBC4/Perth Festival Australia) and Murdered by my Father (BBC3).

In this version of the Cinderella tale, the Prince tells his side of the story through diary entries.

The first Asian woman in hip-hop, Sophia Chang shares the inspiring story of her career in the music business, working with such acts as The Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest, her path to becoming an entrepreneur, and her candid accounts of marriage, motherhood, aging, desire, marginalization, and martial arts. Fearless and unpredictable, Sophia Chang prevailed in a male-dominated music industry to manage the biggest names in hip-hop and R&B. The daughter of Korean immigrants in predominantly white suburban Vancouver, Chang left for New York City, and soon became a powerful voice in music boardrooms at such record companies as Atlantic, Jive, and Universal Music Group. As an A&R rep, Chang met a Staten Island rapper named Prince Rakeem, now known as the RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, the most revered and influential rap group in hip-hop history. That union would send her on a transformational odyssey, leading her to a Shaolin monk who would become her partner, an enduring kung fu practice, two children, and a reckoning with what type woman she ultimately wanted to be. For decades, Chang helped remarkably talented men tell their stories. Now, with The Baddest Bitch In The Room, she is ready to tell her own story of marriage, motherhood, aging, desire, marginalization, and martial arts. This is an inspirational debut memoir by a woman of color who has had the audacity to be bold in the pursuit of her passions, despite what anyone—family, society, the dominant culture—have prescribed.