2016, our first year of ~Feels
#FeelsFest (October 22, Glorietta 5) in a nutshell:
Archive of ‘Events’
Being an author, reader, exhibitor at MIBF 2016
Indie/hybrid romance in English by Filipino authors (we need to come up with a shorter name for this) did its thing at the Manila International Book Fair 2016.
I am grateful for a lot of things.
continue reading...#AllTheFeels: Live readings at the Manila International Book Fair 2016
Thanks to the Filipino Readercon, #romanceclass was able to fulfill one of those on-the-spot dreams: An event at the Manila International Book Fair. When you’re into books, MIBF time is always a big deal. It’s not, “Do I go?” but […]
continue reading...Recap: The Philippine Readers and Writers Festival 2016
This isn’t going to be a recap of the three-day festival, as I’d missed the first two days of it. So many things were happening in Manila (and my life) this particular weekend. Busy, but fun. Organized by National Bookstore […]
continue reading...#romanceclass lecture: Journalists (August 6, 2016)
After the great experience with the lecture with the musicians, I decided not to do another lecture until we had just as good a panel. We found out then that we had people coming in from far outside Manila and it had to be worth it. I know how much time is worth and I wasn’t going to ask it of people if it would just be a so-so thing.
But then… Atom Araullo said yes. Haha.
continue reading...#FeelsRushIn, a #romanceclass event at Ayala Malls TriNoma
We’re always going to be ready to do a Feels Day, and we proved that when we put together #FeelsRushIn in 10 days. Ha!
continue reading...#romanceclass lecture: “How to date a musician” (Writing rockstar romances)
We had our first #romanceclass lecture and it rocked! Sorry for the pun! But it did.
On June 12, Independence Day here in the Philippines, the #romanceclass community met again to have our regular book discussion — except we’ve now turned it into a “lecture” series for writers or aspiring authors. What’s the difference? Well, when we used to meet to discuss books, I think the general impression was that you had to read the assigned books first, when the truth was, we didn’t care. We just wanted to talk about romance, books, and ideas for writing.
continue reading...Recap: My time as a fellow at the 55th UP National Writers Workshop
A photo posted by Mina V. Esguerra (@minavesguerra) on May 25, 2016 at 10:56pm PDT Surprise! This was one of those things I ended up doing. An opportunity to join the UP National Writers Workshop as a fellow came up, […]
continue reading...#AprilFeelsDay: Thoughts and Feelings Recap
How do I even begin?
#AprilFeelsDay: Celebrating romance on April 17
So we’re doing this! The #romanceclass community of readers and authors has done meetups before, and also sold books at fairs, and organized live performances of the books, but now we’re putting it all together and inviting everyone to join. […]
continue reading...About Mina
Mina V. Esguerra writes contemporary romance, young adult, and new adult novellas. Through her blog Publishing in Pajamas (minavesguerra.com), she documents her experiments in publishing.
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