Not enemies to lovers BUT... A Marriage of Convenience Between a prince sworn to the all merciful Goddess of the Sea. A healer, bound by duty, prepared to sacrifice himself and everyone he loves to maintain the fragile peace in his half-conquered city And a woman chosen by the Goddess of Storms

Inez from Daughters of Flood and Fury never met a problem she didn't try to solve by throwing herself into the sea 🌊🙌🏽🌊

A wet SOCK? In my training module?

Not exactly: "Who did this to you?" The MMC asks the injured FMC MORE: The FMC in the center of the wreckage of the storm she called at the behest of the Goddess of Vengeance, touching the blood running down the side of the MMC's face asking, "Did I do this?"

Vibes for your toxic Sapphic nuns? When Forbidden love and Foreign faith are tearing you apart.... Will martyrdom bring the peace you crave? Meet Catalina my favorite and most unlikable character from Saints of Storm and Sorrow.

I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.

My author brand in a nutshell

My father is the worst man alive...and I'm his favorite daughter Lunurin has been hiding in a convent from the goddess of storms who sings of drowning colonizers and the Inquisition who'd burn her for a witch, were she not the archbishop's illegitimate mestiza daughter...

I've been researching WWII rice shortages in the Philippines for a novella, reading a pre-war American analysis of the Philippine Agricultural capacity now. AND I AM SCREAMING AT A PITCH AUDIBLE ONLY TO DOGS "The economy grew despite difficulties with various agrarian uprisings."

It's Bi visibility week, so you can't not perceive this bi author & her bi heroine in a bi-panic love triangle Saints is a coming of rage abt a woman hiding in a nunnery from her Goddess of Storms who sings of drowning colonizers & the Inquisition who'd burn her at the stake

Whenever I have a truly exhausting week I like to eat food so hot that in comparison to the physical pain I feel downright euphoric. For times like these there's drizzling extra buldak hot sauce on extra spicy ramen

@armadilloconsff was an awesome end cap to a busy Daughters of Flood and Fury book tour Now I must climb under a rock and write a novella preferably before mid October 🤞🏽🫣😅🤣 It's been a blast but the deadlines are whispering my name in discordant voices and I must pay heed

I don't think you're ready for my latest Filipiniana ✨FIT✨ 🙌🏽🇵🇭🙌🏽 Thanks @armadillocon.bsky.social for having me 💜 I had a blast

A "book marketer" quoted me $4000 to improve my book's "discoverability" with .... Wait for it.... "40-80 reviews" So here's me walking into the sea and calling down the wrath of the Goddess of Storms instead!

@rosecitycc swag and signings haul. I was voted most likely to commit arson in so obviously the Molotov cat. I'm so thrilled to have gotten to panel with such amazing and talented authors Andinspired by all the reader totes, I tried to do a signed tote with every author I paneled with-cute right?

Thank so much for having me on to chat!

Who's headed to @armadilloconsff ? Have you seen these awesome panel lineups? I'm so excited to be heading to Austin in TWO DAYS for some awesome writer's workshops, panels, signings and readings! I hope to see you there! You won't miss me- I'll be in my pinay con-crown 🤣👑🙌🏽🇵🇭

I just wanted to let you know that my How I Make Money Writing interview is now live! If we're mutuals shoot me a dm and I can get you a gifted link to read in full if you're interested 💜 Here’s the link: howimakemoneywriting.substack.com/p/interview-...

Thank you @rosecitycc.bsky.social I WAS having my moment 🙌🏽👑🥰 Quick highlights reel from this weekend's epic events, panels and signings. Getting to meet with so many readers who've been following me was amazing as well as connecting with so many new and enthusiastic readers!

Quick Rose City Comicon photo dump!!! Sidekicks and side quests moderated by @readingismagical.bsky.social with @tkingfisher.com and Terry Brooks and the lovely @rmgilligan.bsky.social and @aidenschmaiden.bsky.social was such a cool discussion!

Last day to enter! doing a final day boost for a giveaway of my avatar the last Airbender - but the avatar is not a Pacifist epic fantasy series! www.instagram.com/p/DN8atBijuV...

Trailer for my Filipino Gothic short story ORO, PLATA, MATA in Beyond &Within WITCHCRAFT Folk and Horror stories edited by @marieoregan8101 and @paul.kane.376 you can preorder for 25% off till Sept 5 at B&N with CODE: PREORDER25 📿🇵🇭⚜️🪙🥈💀

It's B&N pre-order season! And if you're looking for an awesome diverse witchy anthology you need Beyond and Within: WITCHCRAFT Folk and Horror Anthology edited by Marie O'regan & Paul Kane It includes my gothic filipino story ORO, PLATA, MATA (Gold, Silver, Death)

I'm headed into back to back Con weekends with @rosecitycc and @armadilloconsff Will you be there?? I'm so psyched for these incredibly stacked panels lineups, bookish brunches, really cool writing workshops and more opportunities to wear out my bookish cosplays and booklooks!

Shout out to @rubellaface for sharing this cool @rosecitycc display at @powellsbooks that features Daughters of Flood and Fury and Saints of Storm and Sorrow with @mia.tsai.books epic blurb 🥰🥰🥰 Just 3 more days till the Con and I can't wait!! Will you be there?

Important Saints of Storm and Sorrow memes

Celebrating the work and life of Larry Itliong a Filipino American labor organizer and civil rights activist who played a central role in founding the United Farm Workers (UFW) union. On labor day remember the manong generation

@courtneymilan.com I finally got on hand all the ingredients to make your lui cha fan which I've been meaning to do since I read The Duke who Didn't. It did not disappoint! (Anyone except my cat who was not impressed with any of the kitchen scraps on offer 🤣) www.courtneymilan.com/lui-cha-fan/

It's almost Con time!! 6 days til @rosecitycc and then the next weekend @armadilloconsff Are you ready? I'll be at both so I'm analyzing my packing list down to the last product to figure out some minimal travel book looks for #daughtersoffloodandfury 🤣

@rosecitycc.bsky.social c is just one week away! Are you coming? I am still completely geeking out over this amazing lineup of panels and author's I'm going to get to work with. Seriously if I seem dumbstruck its because I will be 😂 I hope you'll come out to see me!

Want to win signed copies of the complete Stormbringer duology by @gabriellabuba.bsky.social? Head to our Instagram for a chance to win this fiercely imaginative Filipino-inspired fantasy saga!. ✨ ⛈️ 🌊 Instagram.com/TitanBooks

It's my Author Instagram takeover of my publisher's page and we're running a giveaway!! Head to Titan's page to enter www.instagram.com/p/DN8atBijuV...

Honestly made my day 💜🙌🏽 I'm so glad Saints resonated with you

My FMC Inez when she snaps and decides to feed a priest to crocodiles and sink Portuguese slavers even if that means sending them all to the bottom of the sea together, hand in unlovable hand 🌊🌊🌊 ✨All the mercy in the sea has run out ✨ Daughters of Flood and Fury is out now

Halo-Halo appreciation post because I'm just back from my Filipino Family reunion and California book tour and indulged in some of the best Halo-Halo of my life. Why can't I have this in TX 😭 - I just have to hold out till my Philippines trip in Oct

So good to get to see you too 💜💜💜🇵🇭🙌🏽💜

Heyyyy When Among Crows is on the shortlist for the inaugural Aldiss Award for World Building! What an honor to be alongside @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social @gabriellabuba.bsky.social @wtalabi.bsky.social @rogbapayne.bsky.social and Aman J. Bedi! 📚💙🪐

Hey LA! Are you psyched for the last weekend of events of my California Book Tour for the Launch of Daughters of Flood and Fury? I hope to see you tomorrow, Saturday at 4pm @Kubo.lb with the narrator of Inez's POV ferdelle capistrano

How wonderful to see #BeyondandWithinWitchcraft with a #1 orange sticker already!! Thanks to contributor @gabriellabuba.bsky.social for the heads up 🧙

THRILLED to announce that Saints of Storm and Sorrow was nominated for the shortlist for the inaugural Aldiss Award for World Building in speculative fiction!! And what an epic shortlist of work it is! Check out all these awesome stories

✨#1 New Release on Amazon ✨ ORANGE BANNER ALERT Y'ALL!!!! Witchcraft Short Stories: Folk Tales & Horror Stories (Beyond and Within) from @flametreepublishing is a #1 new release in Short Story Literary Criticism AND has my Witchy Filipino Gothic short story ORO, PLATA, MATA

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Hey San Diego! Come out to @mystgalaxybooks tomorrow at 1pm to celebrate the launch of my Asian Sapphic Pirates of the Caribbean X House of the Dragon epic fantasy 🐉🙌🏽🏴‍☠️ I'll be talking Filipino fantasy, female rage and how healing doesn't look pretty with @tracybaduawrites

One of the funniest things about being an author is finding out which of your family members willvibe with your work AND THEY ARE NOT THE ONES YOU EXPECT My uncle is ex-army, deeply Christian, straight white dude boomer- and he sends me play by play feedback as he reads all my anti-colonial work-

I used to be cool, now I say things like Look! I learned precolonial Filipino calligraphy to write the name of the Goddess of Storms on my manicure for book events PT 2! Since many of you DO think baybayin calligraphy is cool, here's the process behind my mani for book events 💅🏽

The answer to my problems probably isn't freeing a spy, boarding a slave ship and running away to sea to chase rumors of my traitor of a sister returned as a saint to lead the Armada planning to retake our city- but I should probably check to make sure ^^ Inez probably

Join Inez on a series of very bad no good decisions that start with kidnapping a priest, running away to sea, and joining a pirate crew to chase the rumor of her sister Catalina returned as a Saint to lead the reconquest of their city 🙌🏽🌊🐊 Come for the sapphic pirates stay for the dragons

Men don't yearn enough anymore? May I present Alon the MMC in Saints of Storm and Sorrow who has been yearning for a solid decade, but has resigned himself to it being a lost cause as the object of his affection has chosen to become a nun? Dante Basco voices him in the audiobook and it's 🥵🔥😉

"One day she would shatter. The fault lines had already been laid. Inez wouldn’t be like Lunurin, her goddess burning in her eyes, lightning spilling out of her skin. Instead, the ugliness inside her would leak out like an abscessed wound to poison everyone around her." - DoFaF

I've been getting asks about my pants I'm my Daughters of Flood and Fury book Cosplay photos! Here's the how to on wearing Malong pants like a Pirate from the Stormbringer Saga is