I released my first book exactly 11 years ago today (what is time??? 😂). If you’re looking for a short friends-to-lovers romance book set in PH, meet my eldest kids, Rain and Mark. Fall Like Rain is 0.99 on Amz until 9/30. ☔️ : bit.ly/flrnovel 💙 #RomanceClass

Erika, 41, has had a steady and less complicated life since quitting her job and helping her best friend open a cafe. What could disturb this peace? Just her favorite customer asking her out on a date, and wanting more. Out Nov 7! Pre-order here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FS53HTKK #romancelandia

#CoverReveal! My Usual and You's cover has art by Ren Ebit, design by Tania Arpa, and lettering by Carla de Guzman. Pre-order links here: minavesguerra.com/news/cafetit... #RomanceClass

Summoned by @milestanbooks.com to this app again because of this! Wow wow wow Animorphs was a HUGE part of my teenage years (Jake was my first bookish crush haha). These look SO good!

And that's film adaptation #1 for #RomanceClass ❤ Carla de Guzman's SWEET ON YOU has been adapted and will be released as RECIPE FOR ROMANCE. Red carpet when??? Congrats, Carla!!! variety.com/2025/tv/news...

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This actually happened last night but I fell asleep and then I was crying happy tears about Yoongi this morning (welcome back, Yoongles! 💜) so here’s a sorta late announcement/celebration. This draft is 3 years in the making and it feels SO good to write THE END again! 🥳

I’m almost done reading a thing and I got to yet another plot twist and it made me so mad that I want to DNF it but I’m two chapters away to the end and I’m sadly committed to this absurdity. 😩

Spent my morning getting all the BTS notices and reading a work email that makes my work a lot easier starting Monday so it’s already a great weekend (I shouldn’t read my work email on a weekend I know but lol I’m glad I did today) 💜

extremely tepid take here but I'm a little tired of people who clearly don't like the genre they're in trying to 'remix' those genres lol No more 'elevated' horror, no more of whatever this is with romance. You have missed the point of the genre!! All of it!! The whole thing!!

This whole day has been powered by spite and I’ve never been so productive. 🤣

The real problem we Filipino authors face is this, the persistent narrative that our books are rare, and have to periodically be discovered by knights in shining armor. The reality is that we've been here for over a decade, but some people never buy/read us (until they rebrand as our champions).

“I realized that when we talk about romance, it’s rare to find books in the Philippine context.” Hahahaha saying that in the year of the Lord 2025 is definitely a ✨ choice. ✨

Got my results and everything is good! 🥳 My FT4 is below range for the first time ever but at least it’s not high? Ice cream to celebrate! 🎉

Finally went out to do my blood test today. I was supposed to do it last month but I was busy (imy Hobi!). 😅 Anyway TIL that lipid profile tests need 10-12hrs of fasting while the blood sugar test only need 8-10. I always do a minimum of 10hrs. 😅

I finally have access to publish stuff to our regional websites at work and of course I ran into an issue with Kentico immediately. 😤 It turns out I was setting the expire date of the page so it gets published then it gets unpublished automatically. Oops. 😅

I haven’t been here in a while and there were some important life updates (basically Hope on the Stage Singapore 😆) but first I want to yell about this contract I’ve been working with our legal and procurement teams in the past month that just got approved!!! 🥳 I can finally proceed with this proj!

The Perfect Murder : A Sunukuan & Tikbalang Mystery by @luckychan.bsky.social pairs well with a lemon cookie 💥🍋🔎

Still feeling a liiittle fomo with the j-hope shows in Manila this weekend so glad I ended up having a lot of plans and meetups instead. But super excited for friends who are going! I’ll get my turn to see him in two weeks (omg wait what)!

My manager asked me why I was working today and I said I had a call plus I am on leave this weekend and I can offset this to another day. But she told me to log off early anyway and you know what, I will do that. 😁

Officially launched this baby today! It was slow work but still good work, and glad it’s finally out in the wild. Time to start working on the next~

My pulmonologist finally saw my chest CT scan results and she was very happy that it’s now a one page doc with almost all normal impressions. 😆 (Thyroid size is still the remaining not normal one but that’s expected.)

Registration is now open for #RomanceClass2025! 🩷 If you have always wanted to learn how to write a romance book, here's your chance. kilig.pub/romanceclass2025 The form closes April 20. Class begins May 2.

Because you weren’t going to hear about this book unless I said something, The Last Guy You Kiss is out next week! My attempt to write a classic Filipino rom com with extra cheese on top. Get it here: www.amazon.com/Last-Guy-You... #romanceclandia

It has been a wild 24 hours at work today. 😮‍💨

I have no photos as usual lol but so fun to hang out with @romanceclassbooks.com again today 💞 (And Gio as @minavesguerra.com’s Aaron from Better At Weddings Than You was UGH 😤 but thanks I love it 😍)

I love you and happy birthday hobi mwah 😘💜 (and pls pls let me get tickets to your show 😭)

Went out to get my test results today and my thyroid antibodies went down! 🥳 All my test results for the start of 2025 are really good, let’s keep at it. 💪🏼

My senior dog deciding he is my Valentine’s date today because we suddenly have a vet appointment for a skin tag that bled overnight. 😆😖

I think I got legal approval for my whitepaper? There’s a lot of revisions but nothing major and legal guy said I can send it to him for review if it makes me feel more comfortable so I think I don’t really have to. Will have to think/read through the whole thing again next week before I celebrate.🤞🏼

Presented 2025 plans to our VP today and she said I did well but now I am exhausted and I want to lie down but I still have work to do 😮‍💨

Announcement 3 of 4! @carladeguzman.com's Blooming Love will have a Philippine print edition by Vibal. Out in 2025! #RomanceClass romanceclassbooks.com/carla-de-guz...

Someone on my IG said that this book got them out of their reading slump — I sped through the last 25% of this last night and cried at the end so I think it’s the same for me. Ready to read something not too close to my corporate life and a bit happier! 😅

Blush Books Better at Weddings Than You and Scandalized spotted at Fully Booked UP Town Center and BGC 👀 #RomanceClass

6 vials for my first blood test for 2025 (I checked the vial labels and it adds up to 28ml 🩸)! Good luck, blood cells! 💪🏼 Now I can eat.

Expecting a quiet work day today because everyone else in the team are on holiday/leave (AU day and Lunar New Year week). Time to get the admin work out of the way!

Doing this here, too! Books I read this year, aka #DogEared2025 (yes, I dog-ear my books haha ✌🏼) 📚🧵🐶

Finally some progress on my first work whitepaper that I’ve drafted last year and I got my first approval 🥳 Just sent it to our legal team and I’m 🤞🏼 that it won’t have major revisions and that we can get it live within Q1!

The past days have been so exhausting in so many ways and today felt like the first real uneventful day since last week. 🤧 I’m going to spend the rest of tonight reading and journaling to chill.

She’s done and it’s all clear! Thank you for your prayers. 🤍

Hello~ If you see this, please say a prayer for my mom? She’s going through an endoscopy procedure in a bit and please pray that everything is clear and unremarkable. Thank you~

Back home now and argh I discovered a spot I didn’t get to clean last Friday so my hands are covered in soot again. 😕

It’s been a day and I’m out of town now but made sure I unplugged everything in my room! But something I’ve been thinking about: before this happened, I was about to go out to take a shower and prepare for work. But I got distracted when the TWSBI Eco I flushed last night was already dry so —

Soooo this morning I learned that powerbanks could spontaneously combust even when unplugged and it almost set my room on fire. 😣 (We’re safe, we got the fire out on time but I’m very freaked out rn)

First 7am meeting for 2025 🥱 Let’s get it~

My planners finally got here! This is my fault for ordering them late. I can now formally start 2025 😆

Happy 100th Birthday to Dead Stars and modern Philippine writing in English <3

I always say I’d blog more but I never get around to it — but I have a good reason why I didn’t get to do much last year. Rambled on the blog about my 2024 in writing~ (tl;dr - a career shift and a monster draft hehe) anatejano.com/2025/2024-in...

The neighbors are all go with their fireworks while I’m the asthmatic hiding inside with our dogs. 😅