No Strings Attached (2023 cover)
No Strings Attached, first released in 2010, has a 2023 cover! I am having 8 of my Chic Manila books redesigned, and I’m excited to see these as a complete set.
Designed by Tania Arpa, photographed by Chi Yu Rodriguez, featuring cover model Marynor Madamesila.
Carla’s 29 and a whiz at her job: she’s efficient, reliable, and a total genius when it comes to putting something together at the last minute. Her dating life is practically nonexistent though, and everyone has an opinion about that. Her girl best friend (who’s married) keeps trying to set her up with stable banker-types, while her guy best friend (single and proud of it) encourages her to play the field–no strings attached.
No Strings Attached book description
Then Carla meets hot, smug, sexy Dante, and he’s everything she didn’t know she liked. He’s also five years younger, and she thinks it makes him perfect for the non-relationship she had in mind. What happens to that plan when he thinks he’s met the one for him at 24?
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If you own ANY previous edition, you can get a free digital copy of this new one! Just email photo proof (selfie with the book etc) to minavesguerrabooks at gmail dot com.
No Strings Attached was first published by Summit Books (my publisher in the Philippines) in 2010. This was my third book, still in “chick lit” style. This is special to me because I consider this the book when I figured out what I wanted to say. As a Filipino author writing this in particular.
It has my first recurring character – Anton (from Fairy Tale Fail my 2nd book), but called Tonio here all throughout because Pinoy nickname rules mean you are known by an entirely different name in a different context. (He gets his own book in That Kind of Guy.)
It has the first instance of my main character telling herself (in so doing, telling the reader and this environment in general), that there are things she doesn’t have to do.
20+ books I’ve written after will be variations of this message.
Back then (in my Summit chick lit era) I knew I had a page limit and this manuscript was way over that. Rather than trim it before submitting, I sent it to my editor and publisher as is, so at least any cuts would be up to them.
They wanted to keep it intact. “We’ll make it work in layout!”
When I read it now it feels like Early Me but it’s also a reminder of when I knew what I wanted my books to say and feel like.
I get lovely reader feedback in general but this email from 2011, about No Strings Attached, is one of the coolest.
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