Episode 8: Jeane Phan Wong
Home Town: San Gabriel, CA, home of the best Asian food in SoCal in my opinion Current Town: Los Angeles, CA What are you working on now?: I’m staffed on a streaming cable one hour historical drama. I’m also doing a fantastic job on procrastinating in terms of developing new ideas to sell and also addressing notes on a holiday rom com I wrote during the pandemic. I hope my reps don’t read this. Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person: I grew up “working” at my parents’ bakery. I subsisted on an inventory of baked goods, comic books, and every book I could possibly order from the Scholastic newsletter. It was my time being the world’s worst worker at the bakery that I fell in love with storytelling and then I started writing down my own stories, whether it was a bakery box or store napkin. This is where I fell in love with writing. Soon the lighter storytelling from Sailor Moon to comic books became darker from true cri