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Champion of the Dead is Off to Beta Readers and More
Champion of the Dead is off to beta readers! Huzzah! This is my third round trying to come up with a satisfying sequel. It wasn’t that it was harder than the first, or that the other attempts weren’t good, it was that, well, there was a lot to sort out after the end of Savior…
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Midnight Musings
Executive dysfunction is kicking my ass. That and life are really giving it to me. There’s just been so much going on that I haven’t had a chance to catch my breath, and getting any of it done has been a Sisyphean task. It’s been six years now since my life got upended, longer really…
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Come Meet Me!
Sorry for the late notice, but I just got an invite to hang out, meet people, and sell books at The Alameda Filipino Fest! If you’re in the San Francisco East Bay and want a signed copy of my book, or to just come around and say hi, stop on by Roberto Bulatao’s booth where…
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Happy Pride!
It’s that time of year again where queer people the world over celebrate their right to exist. We’ve come a long way since Stonewall in the 60s, but the fight isn’t over. Current events aren’t going to push me back into a closet I’ve been fighting to stay out of most of my life, though,…
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Savior of the Damned is Available for Preorder!
It’s been a trial to get here, but I’m over the moon I finally made it. Two years of writing, revisions, editing, and beta reading have all paid off. It was not my first book ever written, but it was the first one I managed to get into publishing shape. I learned so much along…
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Happy Bi Visibility Day!
Happy bisexual visibility day! Part of my journey as a writer has been figuring out where my sexuality fits into the grand scheme of things. I don’t mean who I date or anything like that, but how honest did I want to be? Did I want to sit on it, considering the current climate of…
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Savior of the Damned ARC announcement
Savior of the Damned is done. The ARC is mostly ready now too, I’m just waiting on the cover. And let me tell you folks it has been an absolute rush of feelings. It’s not quite done yet, of course. I still have to format the actual book, and I have to send out the…
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Diverse Narratives
I am Filipino. I am a part of the Filipino-American diaspora, and more importantly, I’m proud to be a part of it. Biologically I’m mixed race (Filipino/white) but I identify as Filipino because blood quantum is a tool of colonialism. Blood quantum says nothing about the people I was raised around, the culture I am…
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Switching Gears
Sometimes it’s not that you burned out on writing. Sometimes it’s that you burned out on writing a specific project. I know I’ve been there before, and I’m there right now. I powered through most of three novels, a novella, and outlines for five more novellas, and I suspect that it’s time to switch gears. …
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Character Names
I think naming characters is one of my weakest points. It’s agonizing, isn’t it? Picking the right one? Pouring over baby name websites and trying to find that perfect name that fits better than literally anything else? Or using name generator sites to find that perfect moniker. Does it ever get any easier? It doesn’t…
Category: reading
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Happy Pride!
It’s that time of year again where queer people the world over celebrate their right to exist. We’ve come a long way since Stonewall in the 60s, but the fight isn’t over. Current events aren’t going to push me back into a closet I’ve been fighting to stay out of most of my life, though,…