Kailin Gow

Kailin Gow is an award-winning Asian American actress/host, a producer, director, screenwriter, and ALA YALSA award-winning international bestselling author with over 11 million books sold purely by word-of-mouth and popularity. 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 2 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 is speaks Mandarin Chinese, some Japanese, Spanish, German, and some Korean; 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 400 books published under her name and pen names, 60 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. Featured as an author phenomenon on the largest Chinese-language newspaper, The World Journal, outside of China, many of her work is seen as universal with a wide audience appeal. During Asian week in America and other Asian conferences where Kailin Gow was a presenter, many of the audience voted for and demanded to have her fantasy books like Bitter Frost, The Fire Wars, Wicked Woods, and FADE adapted into film so non-literate audience members could experience the story. AWARDS 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. Currently over 200 of her books are in production as audio books, with 32 of them published and available worldwide. 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 most popular series are the FROST Series, FADE Series, PULSE Vampire Series, Loving Summer Series, You & Me Trilogy, Never Knights Series, and more. 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. One of the busiest author and filmmaker in Hollywood, Kailin Gow currently releases a book per month while in production as the host and star of the new tv dramedy series, Author: A Parody, premiering in Spring 2019 about the hilarious and almost unbelievable experiences she's experienced as an indie author, and the travel lifestyle show, Kailin Gow's Go Girl, now in its 2nd Season. Mysterious Teacher, the Prequel to her million-selling book series, PULSE Vampire Series, is in production, with Kailin Gow directing. Bitter Frost, her million-selling book series, is also in production, as well as her popular book series, Loving Summer Series. 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. She can be book for celebrity and speaking engagements through https://www.celebritytalent.net/sampletalent/12106/kailin-gow/