Currently #16

1. This week’s big deal: my pen name Mina V. Esguerra is now a registered trademark. After sending my application, I was asked to submit additional paperwork, and that included my use of this name, my dot com, news articles, all that and notarized too. I got some questions from authors about this and I’m also very averse to paperwork (and performative paperwork) so I won’t just say yes do this too. Get advice from someone versed in IP and is familiar with your IP too.

2. It is also 15 years since the publication of my first book! God it was so long ago that I announced it on Blogspot. (That was my first ever Internet space using my pen name, and all those posts have since been copied and hosted here.) To celebrate this milestone, My Imaginary Ex is free here until June 9: https://ko-fi.com/s/8f1f4d2cab

Writing and releasing My Imaginary Ex with Summit Books changed my life. Made me an author. Introduced me to people I work with (fun work) to this day. Introduced me to readers who still buy my books! And some are now authors too!

I’ve kept this book around and accessible; it receives new purchases on Amazon, new reads on Wattpad, new library acquisitions through Overdrive to this day. And it’ll go through a cover change again soon!

3. Spent some time (not in a bad way) putting together a huge order for RomanceClass books. This is just half of it. It’s SO satisfying to work on something like this. (Place an order at sales @ romanceclassbooks.com if you want books by different RomanceClass authors! And here’s my own order form for Philippine residents.)

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