Category: Book Updates!
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(Updated) Reflections & Stories from the Brownsville Heritage House Launch
For new subscribers, welcome! For old subscribers, this version is the best one to share & includes some additional edits. Friends, On Saturday afternoon, over 50 people gathered in Brownsville, Brooklyn for an event that used Livonia Chow Mein as a launching pad for a community dialogue about Black-Asian relations. The event took place at…
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Support New Yorkers – not Bezos and Blackstone!
Happy New Year friends. There are three months left until the publication of my debut novel, Livonia Chow Mein, and I’m coming at you today with two book-related action items. Below are two ways you can back Livonia while supporting the working-class communities of color that make NYC run — and not the corporate oligarchs…
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Abby’s Debut Novel Forthcoming in April 2026 with Simon & Schuster
Dear friends, mentors, and colleagues, In these difficult times, I hope to offer a bit of good news: my debut novel, Livonia Chow Mein, will be published by Simon & Schuster in April 2026. It’s been a labor of love for ten years. Here’s the Publishers Weekly notice: Asian American Writers’ Workshop Margins Fellow Abigail…
Abigail Savitch-Lew 