It’s October and my Christmas tree is already up. Yep. My daughter insisted in putting it up the moment the month of Ber started. So I let her, because I’m Filipino and we start Christmas when the clock strikes midnight on August 31st.
But Christmas stuff aside, it’s been an amazing September for me. Absolutely amazing! The Search for Adarna was released in time for the Manila International Book Festival. Since I couldn’t really fly to the Philippines, I followed everything on social media. What a massive festival! Book lovers unite!
On the first day, my books were placed on the MIBF Exclusive stand (that was already surreal in itself, having a whole area for all my three books!).
On the third day of MIBF they were moved to the Bestsellers section and a lot of the copies were already gone. (I had to ask my publisher if they were hiding the copies or if people were buying it. FYI, people were buying them. So surreal.)
Thank you to everyone who bought copies, messaged me, and posted on social media. You guys are the best readers an author could ask for.
I did a couple of interviews in September as well. One for SBS Australia, another with Love Oz YA and another one for the popular podcast So You Want to Be a Writer which will be out soon.
And for fans of Love Radio Manila’s Nicole and Chris Tambalan, I also submitted a story to their Mahiwagang Burnay segment. I love that program, always makes me laugh when I listen to them.
Again, thank you everyone for your support! Feel free to tag me when you post on social media so I can repost it!
And advance Merry Christmas LOL!
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