If you follow me and #romanceclass news on social media, you’ll be seeing a lot of this in the coming months. FLAIR (or #romanceclassFlair) is a new, ongoing project to release steamy contemporary romance (in English) by Filipino authors. There […]
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In 2013, I facilitated an online class, and gave them resources to write a chick lit/contemporary romance novella. I collected the “lectures” (posts sent to the group) and made a little textbook out of it. This year, I updated the […]
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I’ve been getting questions sent to me through email, Wattpad, and Ask.fm. I think I’ll discuss some of them here on the blog too.
I’ve worked with at least five editors (and a few more beta readers) since I began writing and publishing, and yes, it still happens that I disagree with their comments. Sometimes. 🙂 I cave of course to anything factual, grammar-related, or lapses in logic in my story. Those I definitely work on, immediately.
continue reading...If you follow me on Twitter, you’re going to see me use the hashtag #SparkNA. That’s because my new online class, this time sponsored by Anvil’s Spark Books imprint, is starting on Monday.
continue reading...No one really has time to write.
There are other things we could be doing. I won’t even list them down because that’s just the reality of today — we all have other places we should be, things we should be doing. If you want to write, but think that the only time you can start is when you are free from your other responsibilities, then it might never happen. Because when really will the responsibilities stop?
And if you never start, then that’s too bad.
What I do instead is find out when I will have time to write, and maximize it. When I was writing No Strings Attached I wasn’t a mom yet, but I was working, and had thirty minutes at the end of every workday. I wrote most of that book during that time.
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photo from facebook.com/buqoapp It’s all the same, but different. #buqoYA is a class similar to #romanceclass, #buqosteamyreads, and #flirtsteamyreads before it. It was mostly online, and you didn’t have to go to the meetups or face-to-face classes. It’s got a […]
continue reading...Print book formatting and affordable printing, with co-facilitator Tania Arpa, February 28, O2 Space Makati. Sign up here: bit.ly/learnprintpub After February 28, we are conducting training based on requested schedules only. Choose your schedule here, if you’d like us to […]
continue reading...Hello! You might have read the article about my work in the Philippine Daily Inquirer today. If you’re a writer in Metro Manila/Philippines and want to participate in the workshops, here are some signup forms: Ebook formatting and publishing, Jan […]
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I’ve put the lessons from #romanceclass and #steamyreads on Gumroad. Consider these PDF handouts, as if you attended the workshops. Best if you’re a self-paced learner. If you feel you need to be writing with a community, do reach out […]
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