Category: Books
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PBF 2025: There’s A First Time For Everything (Again)
Here’s the thing. Being an author is hard on your mental health. Between bouts of writer’s block, impostor syndrome, self doubt, the international publishing industry’s almost systematic preference for white authors, the local publishing industry looking their noses down at your genre (on Facebook of all places, lol), people online charging through the nose for…
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Author Branding Lessons
Hi, my name is Carla de Guzman. I’m a romance author from the Philippines, and this photo tells you everything you need to know about me. I write contemporary romance that I like to think makes people laugh, I spend too much money on stationery and coffee, and I practically live at Magdamag Market Cafe.…
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2024 in Books
What a surprising year 2024 was! 0 books written for the first time since I started writing, but it’s also been my biggest year in terms of things that happened! My goal for this year was that I just wanted to be more helpful to romanceclass as a whole—if there was anything I can do…
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The 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair: Delegate Life and Books
I know people talk a lot about how “well this wasn’t on my bingo card this year.” And when I tell you that attending the Frankfurt Book Fair as a delegate for the Philippines was not on my bingo card, it really wasn’t. I had seen the application and considered it. But by the end…
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Hybrid Author Self Help
I started writing romance books in 2015. Back then, I fully committed myself to being a self-published author. There was too much confusion in traditional publishing, too much asking for a follower count before they even saw your manuscript, and that was just for local publishers. At the time, self publishing was an only option.…
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Behind the Scenes of Blooming Love
I have always, always wanted to write a cozy witch romance. I could feel it in my soul that it was there somewhere for me, but it took me ~years to decide how to do it. It was brought from the two opposing forces in my life—my favorite witchy movies and shows being so amazing…
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Cover Reveal: Manila Takes Manhattan
Happy Virgo season everyone! Hello to my rising sign, the sign that keeps me just as grounded as my Capricorn Sun does. For all you astrology girlies out there, Virgos are usually associated with the ones who need to keep things in proper order, practical and logical (which also means they can be quite rigid).…
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Notes from NomCom: Something Stupid + Creating the Title
Surprise! We created another anthology! NomCom, is an anthology of foodie romance stories set in a food park in Pasig city (oddly not too far from St. Tropez Condominium!). There are fourteen new stories written by the amazing authors of #romanceclass and are all guaranteed to make you both kilig and hungry. I’m reading through…