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Filipino Food Means Love in The Mango Bride
I employed food as a metaphor for love and home in my novel. On this episode of The Talk with Rose Tibayan, I moderated a discussion on Filipino food and how it is recreated, and reimagined by fellow...
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Covid Confidential
Amid a worldwide pandemic, the San Diego Central Library continued to promote literacy and support local writers, going above and beyond curbside book pickups. The San Diego Decameron Project is a...
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April Fools Surprise
On April Fools’ Day I was surprised not by a prank, but by an article by Alicia de Leon Torres, published in our local newspaper. In it, Alicia profiled my writing, the day job as a Filipino phone...
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I’m always surprised that new readers continue to find and comment on The Mango Bride even 8 years after it was first released. Learning that my novel was included in this list was an unexpected honor...
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Pandemic Bread
Writing, baking and my day job as a phone interpreter come together in this story. To read the full essay, click on the link below:
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Philippine Fright Night
Years ago I wrote a story centering on the Filipino dish Talunang Manok (transl: Defeated Cock) about a caterer and her cheating husband. It was part of a collection of horror stories titled Spooky Mo,...
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Philippine Fright Night on YouTube
Last October, Filipino American playwright Thelma Virata de Castro and I celebrated Filipino American History month by reading horror stories from two of my books. It was a fun event hosted by the San...
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GMA 7 Interview
When Janet Nepales contacted me to do an interview about the upcoming film adaptation of The Mango Bride I expected a few quick questions about the director, cast members and other details from the...
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Adobo Interview
Excerpts from a zoom interview with the whip-smart writers of Adobo Magazine. Angel Guerrero the magazine’s founder, and I worked together at McCann Erickson a lifetime ago. The film adaptation of The...
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Authors for Ukraine
I’ve donated one of the last eight copies of my out of print, impossible to find novel The Mango Bride to this auction. All proceeds go directly to CARE’s Ukraine Fund. If you would like to bid on my...
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the Indiependent Collective Podcast
In which Leah Cioco and I chat about dreams of flying, Joan Didion, mental health, micro aggressions and writing The Mango Bride and Pandemic Bread.
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The Resilience Series
Stephanie Weaver is a TED Talks Coach, author of The Migraine Relief Plan Cookbook and host of the Resilience Series. Our far ranging conversation covered novels, rejection, my day job, the film...
View ArticlePandemic Bread 2022
Last Memorial Day weekend indie filmmaker Zeinabu Davis gathered a cast and crew to shoot a film based on my short story Pandemic Bread. The story was inspired by my day job which involved interpreting...
View ArticleFood, Fiction and Film in the Time of Covid
Pandemic Bread on Fireside Last Friday Susan McBeth, indefatigable advocate of authors and founder of Adventures By the Book hosted a free virtual event on Fireside, a revolutionary new interactive...
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I am honored and delighted to be part of Authors in the Tent, a series of filmed interviews featured in Literary Hub and hosted by San Diego novelist Ona Russell. Previous guests include such...
View ArticleDimestories Flash Fiction
DimeStories is a monthly Flash Fiction open mic event that began 19 years ago in The Grove, a knitting supply and book store in the South Park neighborhood of San Diego. I began reading excerpts from...
View ArticlePandemic Bread Goes to the Movies
A story about my day job as an interpreter went from an online performance on Generation Women’s virtual stage; to online publication in Zocalo Public Square; to an abbreviated version published in the...
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