A fake dating pact with your bestie’s ex? What could go wrong? My young adult rom com, HER GOOD SIDE is out now in paperback and audiobook! 🥪💖🛹 🌞 www.therippedbodice.... 🌞www.penguinteen.com/...

Gifs???? Yay??? tenor.com/view/nanaban...

Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content - https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24011232/substack-nazi-moderation-demonetization-hamish-mckenzie

THE LEASE OF THEIR PROBLEMS Get to know "the roommates" by clicking here: linktr.ee/TLOTP - written with @brijbautista.bsky.social - set in the tropetastic universe - 1/2 bi girl, 1/2 lesbian girl, 100% vadengs - exes but there's only one condo #RomanceClass #TLoTP #Romancelandia

#RomanceClass events in 2023! What it takes to help Filipino authors write/publish/promote/sell our books whew www.instagram.com/reel/C0aXj01...

ICYMI, MGA VADENG!

Our short queen is out! @brijbautista.bsky.social Amazon (kindle + int'l print): www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP46DV78 PH Print, Snack (gcash, etc) and Gumroad (card, etc): linktr.ee/TLOTP RATE: bit.ly/TLoTP-Goodreads 1/? (more buy links soon) #RomanceClass #TLoTP #sapphic #BiExists #Romancelandia

3 more days to pre-order! linktr.ee/TheLeaseOfTheirProblems - written with @brijbautista.bsky.social 🔥 - set in the tropetastic universe - a series of kalat events - f/f exes-to-lovers - "and they were roommates" #RomanceClass #TLoTP

ICYMI! 💜

ICYMI! 💜

[TAKE TWO 😅] THE LEASE OF THEIR PROBLEMS - written with @brijbautista.bsky.social - set in the tropetastic universe - f/f exes-to-lovers - "and they were roommates" - title art: @carladeguzman.com - cover models: Rachel Coates and Gab Pangilinan PRE-ORDERS @ #FeelsSoHot2023! #RomanceClass

Not only is this absolutely right in principle, but I can assure you it is SO MUCH EASIER to make readers feel pain, sorrow, or horror than it is to uplift, make them joyful, or get a proper laugh. Tragedy is just easier than comedy, probably because people have more to cry about.

would love to abolish the notion that making your audience feel joy is inherently intellectually and artistically inferior to making them feel pain, a cheap and cynical attitude which poisons everything from misogynist disdain for romance to why it’s harder for comedies to win Best Picture

There's a vaguely dodgy scholarly press that frequently tries to solicit manuscripts from me with the promise they'll be printed as a "handsome hardback", and I always wonder whether this term could be used to describe those romance covers that are just some jacked guy's naked back #Romancelandia

BOYS BOYS BOYS oil on canvas, 2023

No Strings Attached (new cover!) Carla’s 29 when she meets Dante, and he’s everything she didn’t know she liked. He’s also five years younger, maybe perfect for the non-relationship she had in mind. Amazon bit.ly/chicmanila3 Gumroad gum.co/chicmanila3

one of the most corrosive habits of online dunk culture is making it imperative that everyone be correct at all times and making it harder to be like "oh shit i didn't know that" and then change your mind, which is something that is normal, healthy, and good, imo.

#RomanceClass SEPT 17, 6:30 PM at the Manila International Book Fair. Komiket and @romanceclassbooks.com are launching an imprint! Also starring: @brijbautista.bsky.social @danice.bsky.social @dawnlanuzx.bsky.social @jayetria.com + guests Gio Gahol and Rachel Coates www.manilabookfair.com/events

Click-B Hello Venus I.O.I

There's a Romance For Maui #romancelandia auction going on right now (bid on special items as donations to various relief funds) and my donated item is this starter set of kilig romance books by #RomanceClass authors (print, US only)~

The next event for #RomanceClass books and authors will be the Manila International Book Fair at SMX on Sept 14 to 17! Our books will be at the Komiket booth and we will be launching new editions + an entire new imprint! See you!!! @romanceclassbooks.com

My fave @ Magdamag Market Café!

#RomanceClass Basta, Party! at Magdamag Market Cafe in QC

A whole PARTY at a new event space for a cover reveal + teasers? How very #romanceclass 🥰

WELCOME TO ENVY PARK (new cover!) After 5 years in Singapore, Moira's back in Manila with a new apartment, but no job, no career, no boyfriend. She's leaving soon anyway. Does she start something new with someone about to leave too? Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G9RLZ0C #RomanceClass

Cover designed by @taniaarpa.com, photographed by @chiyurodriguez.com, featuring model Mela Serranilla. #RomanceClass Also on Gumroad: gum.co/chicmanila6 And Snack: https://snack.ph/minavesguerrabooks/64cbc8fea1055b64c87f97ad

Hey, did all of the new folks know that you can go to Settings and turn on "Require alt text on images" which will make sure you don't forget to add alt text? It's a great thing to do!

Planning to do a Kilig Cafe stream later at 4PM at http://kilig.pub/twitch but will be proofreading rather than writing! Merienda/coffee break sprint? #RomanceClass

words to live by

SOME unwatched on My List: The Witcher 3 The Lincoln Lawyer 2 (half) Uncanny Counter 2 (1st ep) Attack on Titan (backlog) Demon Slayer (backlog) See You In My 19th Life Doctor Cha Love to Hate You Crash Course Romance What I've been doing: Re-watching 9-1-1 and Criminal Minds

Happy release day, Jay E. Tria! #RomanceClass #romancelandia Yes to You is a collection of romance short stories (in English, with Filipino characters). On Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Yes-You-Jay-Tria-ebook/dp/B0CBKK5JW8?ref_=ast_author_mpb

#RomanceClass save the date: FeelsFest2023 will be on Oct 7 Saturday! In-person (venue TBA) and online at kilig.pub/twitch FeelsFest is one of 2 annual events where we meet fellow authors and readers and do our book launches and announcements.

we made it! #romancelandia

Filipinos LOVE to eat, so it's no surprise that most #RomanceClass books feature different kinds of food! Here are some yummy examples that might just get you in a snacky mood! All books may be found at romanceclassbooks.com 💗

Only a matter of time now.

Felt 😭

We now have a custom BSky feed folks! Please like, then add to your feeds 💕 #romanceclass #romancelandia https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ilwkqwyifwezjb335js7yb52/feed/aaaiw6oe2cirw

I didn't understand until I had to download the mobile app just now and thought it was some other random app because of the icon 🙃

I don't know what I'll have on here but I just had to get away from That Trashfire Over There 😭 Anyway, HELLO

Because we're building everything again in all places: RomanceClass is a collective of Filipino authors of romance in English. Most of us are self-published, and our books are all listed at romanceclassbooks.com.