“Mom, this is the moment,” Abigail Hing Wen recalls her son saying as they were driving to the screening of Paramount Plus’ latest film “Love in Taipei.” Before the 46-year-old author and producer could breathe in the film adaptation of her 2020 novel “Loveboat, Taipei,” Wen spent 10 years writing by night and working by day in a challenging career as a leader in law, venture capital and artificial intelligence. When her New York Times bestselling novel was tapped to become a movie, Wen flew to Taiwan with the cast and production crew during the COVID-19 pandemic to shoot the coming-of-age, summer romance story.
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