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… Read More
Book three. Wow. It is still kinda surreal saying that I have a third book coming out. It’s not so much impostor syndrome and more like ‘how the hell did I finish that?’ Let me tell you how The Search for Adarna happened. It was an accident. Kinda. Around two years ago I decided to join the crazy writers all… Read More
I started writing fiction in a bubble. I had no author friends, no writing groups, no mentor, no writing festivals. Basically, I just read Stephen King’s book On Writing and gave it a go. Meaning, I learned things the hard way. Below are some things I wish someone told me when I first started writing fiction. Your first draft is… Read More
Someone I recently met asked me about what it’s like in the book publishing world. He was curious to know whether we all led lives like JK Rowling – or close to it – rolling in cash like Walter White in Breaking Bad. I had no choice but to burst his bubble. Most authors are nowhere near Rowling’s success. There… Read More
This week I am answering questions from readers and writers. I normally get them through email or private messages. So I thought it would be great to share my answers with everyone else in case you get something out of it, too. Here goes! How many drafts do you go through before your book is ready for print? It’s changed… Read More
Every writer has a million and one ideas for a book. Once you start opening that ‘what if’ door, things get hectic pretty quickly. The problem is that an idea will only be just that – an idea, if you don’t have the rest of the world built around it. My Pending Stories folder has at least 20 documents in… Read More