Cover Reveal, My Work, The Writing Community

Cover Reveal: Love As You Are

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Its finally here! The official cover of Love As You Are is finally here!!!

First of all, my heartfelt thanks to my little ~team: Miles Tan, who digitally illustrated and designed the cover based on Chi Yu Rodriguez’s photos of Marynor Madamesila and Rendell Sanchez. It was stressful yet still so much fun from organizing the shoot schedule, being ~present at the actual shoot, picking the perfect photo to use (it’s actually very challenging when you have two gorgeous models and so many gorgeous pictures to choose from), to finessing the final art. Thank you all for your time and patience.

So yeah, enough yapping. Here’s the full cover of Love As You Are!

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Cover Reveal: Waiting in the Wings (special illustrated cover edition)

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It’s here! It’s here! It’s heeeeeeere!

It’s cover reveal day, folks—and YES, I know. I’ve done this before. For this very book, in fact. The beauty of being a self-published author, folks: You can do whatever you want with your book, just because. And because I met an artist whose work I really liked and I just really wanted an illustrated cover for Waiting in the Wings, I did exactly that.

I wanted to capture a moment in the book that’s been sorta-kinda immortalized through a couple of live readings but couldn’t really capture in my 2024 photo cover. Figured illustration was the best way to do it, and I’m so, so happy because @rwiizo definitely delivered the feels~!

And so here it is, the special illustrated cover edition of Waiting in the Wings!

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Teatro Lakambini has a new face!

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Waiting in the Wings has a new cover! How much do you lab it?

Say hello to the new cover of Waiting in the Wings! The cover now features MNor Madamesila and Gio Gahol, photographed by Chi Yu Rodriguez. Design and lettering by Miles Tan.

It’s been six years since the release of Waiting in the Wings, my romance novella set in Manila’s musical theatre world, and while I didn’t have any urgent plans to change its cover, the idea had been simmering in my mind for a while. In February this year, PETA Theater opened its doors to a new Filipino musical entitled Walang Aray (an adaptation of Severino Reyes’ Walang Sugat), and it captured my heart instantly and prompted all of this madness.

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[ Cover Reveal ] What If We Fall In Love?

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I love cover reveals. I do. Especially when I know the author doing it and I trust them to “deliver the goods,” so to speak. And also when I’m the one doing the reveal.

In the #romanceclass community, we have a project called #romanceclasscovers where we (or actually, our resident photographer, Chi Yu Rodriguez) takes photos of Filipino models (sometimes they’re actors, sometimes they’re friends of friends!) and we put these photos on the covers of our books. It doesn’t sound quite revolutionary when you think about it, but it’s a statement. It says, loudly, that we want to see Filipinos on the covers of our books. We want to see not just faces, but faces with real emotion. Poses that entice and tickle the imagination. The whole she-bang.

It’s a representation thing. It’s an aesthetic thing. It’s a choice.

My choice for my upcoming book, What If We Fall In Love?, is a playful, happy photo of Gab Pangilinan and Gio Gahol taken way back in 2017, when we still did regular studio shoots for #romanceclass covers. It’s been hidden away for so long, I’ve just being waiting and waiting and waiting to see where I could use it, and the opportunity presented itself after deciding on releasing a romance anthology.

And here it is—the cover of What If We Fall In Love?:

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