Blog
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Last Memorial Day weekend indie filmmaker Zeinabu Davis gathered a cast and crew to shoot a film based on my short story Pandemic Bread. The story was inspired by my day job which involved interpreting end of life calls between doctors, Covid patients, and their families. At the height of the pandemic, I was called…
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Stephanie Weaver is a TED Talks Coach, author of The Migraine Relief Plan Cookbook and host of the Resilience Series. Our far ranging conversation covered novels, rejection, my day job, the film adaptations of The Mango Bride and my short story Pandemic Bread and how I cook to survive the writing life. Click on the…
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In which Leah Cioco and I chat about dreams of flying, Joan Didion, mental health, micro aggressions and writing The Mango Bride and Pandemic Bread.
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Excerpts from a zoom interview with the whip-smart writers of Adobo Magazine. Angel Guerrero the magazine’s founder, and I worked together at McCann Erickson a lifetime ago. The film adaptation of The Mango Bride provided a reason to reconnect and it’s wonderful to see the media powerhouse she created. https://www.facebook.com/adobomagazine/videos/383494957109341/
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Last October, Filipino American playwright Thelma Virata de Castro and I celebrated Filipino American History month by reading horror stories from two of my books. It was a fun event hosted by the San Diego Public Library. A recording of our event has just been posted to Youtube and you can watch it at this…