Biography
Kailin Gow is an award-winning Asian American actress/host, producer, director, screenwriter, and ALA YALSA award-winning international bestselling author with over 14 million books sold purely by word-of-mouth and popularity with fans. A descendant of Kingmaker and philosopher Zhuge Liang of the Three Kingdoms, Kailin Gow is also cousin-in-law to the son of South Korea's Cabinet member. Her father is an American real estate developer, hotelier, and engineer. While her mother is a teacher whose family consists of a Nobel-prize-winning scientist, doctors, and professors. Her second cousin is Sheng Wang, of Sheng Wang: Sweet and Juicy on Netflix and was on Fresh Off The Boat. Her aunt was a pop singer in Taiwan and Japan. With over 680 books published, she is in the Who's Who as the most prolific and productive Asian American author. Known for being one of the nicest authors and glamorous authors, Kailin Gow has brought awareness of social topics to light through her books such as the Loving Summer Series which touch on mental health and also diabetes as a health concern long before the Pandemic made the public aware of it. Her new romantic comedy book, featuring an Asian American leading heroine, called Sweetest Season, now in development as a film, also touches upon finding love during an illness.
In 2017, Kailin Gow and her books were estimated to be close to the Net Worth of Nicholas Sparks and Neil Gaiman by Net Worth magazine. Touted by Executives in the book industry as "Innovative" and "influential", Kailin Gow was one of the first authors/publishers to publish digitally and on demand through her own press back in 2001, coming out with fantasy and adventure books for girls such as the Gifted Girls Series (2001) and the Fairy Rose Series (2003) which introduced fantastical world-building such as Feyland and its warring fairies. In 2010, the Fairy Rose Series continued as a YA series with the focus on Breena Malloy in the Bitter Frost Series and sold over 4 million books. The book series won the Reader's Choice Nomination in Science Fiction and Fantasy from the ALA YALSA Awards, while the animated short film spin off The Red Queen of Bitter Frost, won Best Film - Animated Short from the London Independent Film Awards in 2017 which Kailin Gow wrote, directed, and acted in as Anna Redleaf, the Summer (Red) Queen. She is the first Asian American of Taiwanese descent, who has grossed over 1 million dollars in book sales globally as an Independently published author in the U.S.
As a multi-award-winning screenwriter and producer, she had been known by producers to be the author and screenwriter who consistently writes books and films featuring female characters who were not afraid to be strong, smart, and feminine, whether in YA, Sci Fi, Mystery, or Romance. Amazon highlighted her author success story on the homepage of Amazon.com and in the book, Transformations, noting how she turned her personal life's adversities into an inspiration and drive to write empowering books and stories for girls and women of all ages.
Kailin Gow was the first indie author to write the game concept for her books for the game company developing and producing her games. A charismatic personality, Kailin Gow instantly became a mainstream bestselling success in multiple genres, hitting many bestseller lists since publishing her first book in 2001 with her books translated into Spanish, Chinese, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Tagalog, Hindu, Italian, and many Asian languages and distributed throughout libraries, schools, bookstores, specialty stores, independent distributors, book clubs, and online. Kailin Gow is also one of the most popular authors in fiction today and has over 680 books published under her name and pen names, 100 active book series, and has received a contract to publish some of her books by the same publisher as 'Fifty Shades of Grey' by E.L. James in Europe. An international game company has released her epic fantasy The Frost Series and PULSE Vampire Series into mobile games across Asia, and will be releasing the MMO version of _Bitter Frost (????)_ the first book in The Frost Series in late 2015 worldwide. In 2015, she signed with publishers in Korea to have all her books translated into Korean.
AWARDS
Featured on the front page of Amazon.com as an Author Success Story. In Amazon's book, Transformations, as one of the top successful authors on Amazon, through the KDP Program. Became a traditional publisher with Sparklesoup Inc. Bitter Frost, an original fantasy action adventure and romance series, was a phenomenon and was even nominated for a Readers Choice Nomination in Science Fiction and Fantasy for ALA's YALSA, along with _Divergent (2014)_ by Veronica Roth. Her science fiction action thriller, The FADE Series, won the Benjamin Franklin Silver Honoree Award as Best in Class from the Publishers Association in 2014. The Fire Wars Series, a dystopian fantasy action adventure won the Best Teen Award in The Green Book Awards for its theme of environmental apocalypse. Wicked Woods, her action adventure fantasy horror, won Best Horror Book, in the International Book Awards. Her book series, The Protege, won Best Steamy Novel in the NIEA Awards.
As one of the world's top-selling authors, she has been on several bestseller lists, has been a top ranking author overall, especially in Teen fiction, fantasy, and romance. Oftentimes sandwiched between Richard Riordan, Meg Cabot, Sarah Dessen , Stephenie Meyer. She has appeared as a featured speaker on stage before Kami Garcia at the Orange County Children's Book Festival. As an indie success, she was one of twenty authors along with Hugh Howey, invited by Amazon to their Kindle Fire press conference in Santa Monica as a special guest where she got a chance to sit next to Amazon's top executives for dinner, and she was a speaker at BEA in 2014.
Her experience as a young Asian American teen girl growing up in Southern California in the 1980s was put into a fictional YA Series called Golden Girl. She grew up in Southern California, attending Arcadia High School, where she got her first taste of the acting bug, playing dramatic roles such as Adrian in Rocky to the comedic Chef in Woody Allen's Don't Drink the Water. Her performance as the shy, sensitive, but smart Adrian garnered her rave reviews. Following High School, Kailin attended the University of California at Irvine, majoring in Drama and Social Ecology. She studied under Stephen Barker, Phil Thompson, and James Calleri. As an undergraduate, she wrote, produced, cast, acted in, and directed plays, which were featured among graduate student showcases. She also helped create new curriculum for the drama department when she was elected onto an Undergraduate Drama Department Board. Elected as Chair of the UCI Arts Board, she curated the university's school-wide community and student arts program, discovering local artists from Southern California. Additionally, she founded, executive-produced, and co-hosted a radio talk show for Asian Americans, called "Bridges", which coincided with her production and co-hosting of a radio show for women called, "Womyn's Voices." With her excellent grades and work in entertainment, Kailin received a scholarship to study at USC's Masters program in the Management of Communications at the Annenberg School of Communications, a program known to produce many executives and producers in the entertainment field.
She also hosts and organizes Rockin' Events which brings the top bestselling authors in a genre together with fans in an extraordinary environment.
INTERNATIONAL CELEBRITY AND PROFESSIONAL SPEAKER
Kailin Gow is also internationally-recognized as a speaker, host, and celebrity and have appeared on international television, radio, newspapers, and stage.
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22 wins and 6 nominations
