Category: Blog
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Postcards from the Pandemic
It took nearly two weeks and three groceries to assemble ingredients for Sunday dinner. One night, smoked ham hocks were all that remained in the meat section at Vons. I froze them and hoped. Several days later, collards showed up at the halal grocery I grabbed 5 bunches. The salmon came from a third…
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Postcards from the Pandemic
Welcome to my blog within a blog, which combines the need to write with the compulsion to procrasti-bake/cook in times of stress. March 21 Saturday brunch was Quail Eggs in a Hole with home cured lox and home-baked whole wheat bread. As expected, brunch looked adorable. To crack open a quail egg, click on this…
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The Mango Bride Gets a Twofer in Podcasts
By either sheer coincidence or great good fortune The Mango Bride was featured in two podcasts that celebrated Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! You can listen to each one at the links below: https://yourartsygirlpodcast.com/episodes/episode-14-marivi-soliven-s1!a88c6?fbclid=IwAR3mbhM15bxPcB42ziyiYoVD-OXIxfp8dw818Q3525hBOo5YrIcdGf4CzDI https://www.readingwomenpodcast.com/blog/2019/05/15/ep-66-the-astonishing-color-of-after-and-the-mango-bride
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A Script is Born
When I visited Manila in 2013 to launch The Mango Bride, Roselle Monteverde, head of Regal Entertainment, the oldest surviving film studio in the Philippines, reached out to me about adapting my novel to film. Talks continued sporadically over the years, but this past June they sealed the deal with a contract for the Filipino film version of…
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The Mango Bride’s in Good Company
Five years after Penguin released The Mango Bride National Book Store not only continues to keep it in stock but also displays it in the winners circle. Hemingway to the left, Steinbeck to the right, what’s not to like?
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See who’s Speaking at Centering the Margins: Conversations with Writers of Color
Happy to share the speakers roster for Centering the Margins: Conversations with Writers of Color. March 1-3 2019 in at the San Diego Central Library and UC San Diego! Read on to see who’ll be there: Speakers Plenary Speaker : Lee Ann Kim Lee Ann founded the San Diego Asian American Film Festival in 2000. …
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At long last, Instagram!
Opening an Instagram account years after everyone else did is like arriving late to your own party. Delighted (shocked, actually) to find so many posts about #themangobride!
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Bad Hombres, Malas Mujeres at the AWP
A panel of immigrant writers I organized and moderated at the San Diego Central Library in March inspired Hope Wabuke, one of the speakers, to send a proposal to present it at the AWP. Thanks to her, our conversation will now reach a national audience in Portland next year!
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The Mango Bride – The Movie
My debut novel is going to the big screen! I just signed a film adaptation contract with Regal Entertainment Films, the oldest surviving movie studio in the Philippines. My heart is bursting.
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Book Club Bingo!
Delighted to be one of the 20 authors speaking at this whole day event, that benefits the San Diego Central Library, and brings book clubs closer to the authors of the novels they read. If you’re in SoCal, please join us! You can purchase tickets at the link below: https://www.facebook.com/events/2011949245794530/
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