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Mina V. Esguerra

Publishing in Pajamas

Author


Mina writes contemporary romance, young adult, and new adult novellas. Through her blog Publishing in Pajamas (minavesguerra.com), she documents her experiments in publishing.

Trainer


Mina is a resource speaker for the workshop series "Author at Once" for writers and publishers, and teaches #romanceclass for aspiring romance writers.

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Where is romance happening? RomanceClass Books all over the map


Our row of booths at the Philippine Book Festival (where we’re hosted by Bicol indie bookshop Savage Mind), plans to highlight books about the regions. At RomanceClass we’ve always encouraged authors to write about their favorite places in the country […]

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May 29, 2023 - - No comments

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Philippine Book Festival [June 2 to 4 World Trade Center Manila]


My books and RomanceClass books will be available at the Philippine Book Festival, World Trade Center Manila, June 2 to 4! RomanceClass will have its own booth (look for us at T40-43, we’ll be with Savage Mind Bookshop and Mt […]

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May 26, 2023 - - No comments

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Watching Maria Clara at Ibarra (part 1)


I’ve been watching Maria Clara at Ibarra on Netflix and I thought of archiving my thoughts as posted on Instagram, here on my blog. My livetweet as I watch is here. Appreciating the wide shots (you know I love a […]

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May 14, 2023 - - No comments

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Currently #11


1. I WROTE A BOOK! First Time for Everything, my work-in-progress, is officially a finished draft. I had been writing a different book for a while, and shelved the idea for this as something for book 2…and then this story […]

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May 10, 2023 - - No comments

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Hello, Hannah [an Interim Goddess of Love-adjacent chat fic]


You can ask the Goddess of Love for guidance in your time of need, through a sincere song only your heart can sing…or you can DM her @ Hello Hannah. Read it on TypeKita. Friends, I’ve started something new, short, […]

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April 27, 2023 - - No comments

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Currently #10


1. RomanceClass AprilFeelsDay2023 will be at Magdamag Market Cafe, 3 PM to 6 PM, on April 29 Saturday. Free admission! Our theme is “afternoon tea” and we’ll have book launches, new projects and partner announcements, and LIVE READINGS omg with […]

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April 14, 2023 - - No comments

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UPOU panel: Writing and Publishing Women’s Narratives [Discussion notes]


I was so excited to have been invited to this! I’m a UPOU alumna (master of development communication), and took all the education electives that I could get, including a subject called Online Teaching and Learning. I designed #RomanceClass many […]

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State of the Publishing Situation 2020-2022


Sometimes I’m in the mood to look at spreadsheets, and then make charts. I was curious about how my books did during a specific window of time, and chose data for 2020, 2021, and 2022. I focused on mainly what […]

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Currently #9


1. I’m currently watching K-Love on Viu (available to watch on any browser!). It’s a series written by Tara Sering and Tweet Sering, and if you grew up on Summit chick lit like me (before I wrote Summit chick lit) […]

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March 24, 2023 - - No comments

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#RomanceClass10thAnniv


Because this story has been shared to our friends/fellow authors at #RomanceClass10thAnniv, I guess I can blog about it too. In 2018 I decided to produce an audio edition of Iris After the Incident. Audio editions are not standard with […]

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February 25, 2023 - - No comments

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After KomiketBGC


[Reposting from Twitter, because this is important, and that site could disappear at any time] View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mina V. Esguerra (@minavesguerra) Am the type who feels like talking to people takes a lot […]

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January 31, 2023 - - No comments

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[Deleted scene] Pascal, Lexa, and Colin in So Forward


This month I went to Makati and walked a couple of kilometers through the area that inspired the setting of Colin’s school in So Forward. Even if I fictionalize settings in my books, they’re usually based on real neighborhoods in […]

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January 22, 2023 - - No comments

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