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I had a wide-ranging conversation about my upcoming novel Taxi Dancer and Filipino American history with Stacy Ardis Dyson, founder and lead poet of Tesoro an international women’s poetry consortium. you can watch it at the link below:
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My brilliant editor at Red Hen Press, who helped me fine tune Taxi Dancer surprised me with this drop-dead beautiful book trailer. I am forever grateful for my publisher’s incredible support as we count down the days until the novel’s pub date on September 29. Watch the book trailer on Youtube at this link:
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James Heat and Robert Murray recorded a marvelous conversation with me about immigrant stories, the three books I have coming out this year and all the research that went into my historical novel Taxi Dancer. Watch this episode of the Heatcast by clicking on the link below.
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Red Hen Press has set September 29 as the pub date of Taxi Dancer, which means this is my novel’s birth month! In the Philippines we call that kabuwanan. Taxi Dancer’s kabuwanan commenced auspiciously with a wonderful article posted by YA novelist Tara Lundmark. We had a marvelous two-hour-long conversation about the 1935 murder…
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Red Hen Press is offering a 20% discount code for all preorders made at Indiepubs at this link: https://indiepubs.com/products/taxi-dancer-9781636285153?_pos=2&_sid=3ea96f7ac&_ss=r Just type TAXIDANCER into the Discount Code box at checkout. The discount applies to all formats – hardbound, softbound and digital editions. Please note that it expires on my pub date, September 29. The novel received a starred review…
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The invitation to deliver the keynote speech for the 2025 Local Authors Showcase at the San Diego Public Library was both an honor and a writing challenge. What could I possibly tell an auditorium-full of authors about writing? I decided to skip the usual stories about how my childhood as a dedicated bookworm/nerd and cut…
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This has been a brutal year for loss. My mother passed away in April, and my book baby daddy died today. We all knew this day was coming. Robert Alejandro had been struggling with cancer for eight years, surviving on his partner Jetro’s Budwig Protocol diet. But eight years is a long time even…
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It’s a bit embarrassing how choked up I get, talking about the way books change lives and why I believe books in print are the most affordable works of art. Watch the interview at the link below.
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A Bookish Auction Today is the last day to bid one books and literary services donated by over 900 authors, illustrators, editors and literary agents in Books for Maui. Proceeds from the auction sales go to support wildfire relief efforts. Whoever places the winning bid on The Mango Bride will get a surprise book as…
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Producing Pandemic Bread was a true community effort. Professor Zeinabu Irene Davis recruited undergraduate and graduate students from several universities to work as crew, promising limitless food and their first IMDB credits. Seasoned actors Princess Punzalan, Becca Godinez and Claire Simba worked for the most modest wages that SAG would allow. Rizzhel Javier let us…