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April 2, 2022
Singing on the Spot
This week was pretty amazing. I did not expect the volume of congratulatory messages I got on my social media announcement, but mostly because I have forgotten that I did know these many people. I’m relatively old. I’ve lived so many lives. So. Many. Lives. One day I will write about them. But for now […]
March 25, 2022
It’s happening! I’m getting published!
Ang aking Tagalog novel (working title: Hoy Pong! previously known as Pangkantong Gabay sa Pagiging Ganap) ay ipa-publish early next year ng My Avenida (publisher ng Trese, Kikomachine Komix, mga libro ni Bob Ong, Eliza Victoria, Eros Atalia at marami pang ibang manunulat na Pinoy)—basically my dream publishing house as far back as I can […]
March 6, 2022
OK kind of OK
Well then, I’ve had more social interactions in the past month than the two years that went before it. Yet somewhere people’s worlds are falling apart. It is hard to be perma-happy when you’re perma-informed. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be or that you can’t try. Here, with half of the remaining communal sopas […]
Broken, sure
There was this scene in the first episode of BBC’s Sherlock where Sherlock does a Sherlock guessing Watson’s sibling’s life circumstances by taking one look at the phone he’s using. The phone had several scuff marks near the charging port and Sherlock somehow deduced that only a person with shaky hands would make that many […]
October 27, 2020
October, You Sneak
I felt like I needed to write something because this month has been hella weird in the best way possible but I forgot what it was I wanted to say and so maybe for now I’ll just talk about how when I went out to run again I could not find the morning goose doing […]
August 26, 2020
A Reading History
Hello, I’m back. I finished the last edits to Pangkantong Gabay sa Pagiging Ganap, a Tagalog novel set in the end-of-the-world hysteria of 1999, and shipped it out to someone who will at some point decide whether they want to edit my work or not. Then comes pitching/querying, yadda yadda. Tradpub or indie, marketing, yadda. […]
