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We challenged Filipino writers to tell us tales of crime and mischief, fear and suspicion, dark alleys and darker souls. Welcome to #HeistClub. ~ Buqo, Bronze Age Media and Mina V. Esguerra

I’ve written about this before – my venture into indie writing and writing in English (for the new followers of this blog and this writer, I am a Tagalog romance writer first and foremost). It started with a really short shortie on clararomance.com. Then I got to know people from the Romance Writers of the Philippines and the #romanceclass groups on FB. Then there was the call for two online writing workshops organized by Bronze Age Media, Inc. and Mina V. Esguerra. The second workshop birthed this story.

Submitted last November, the finished product of my October workshop, #HeistClub, is up online via Buqo! Yey! There are three bundles available, 16 stories in all. My story, Classified is available under the What We Fear bundle. Here’s the blurb:

coverDanilo Halili’s latest assignment as a photographer led him to unearth, quite by accident, a plot to harm the indigenous people living in the Sierra Madre Mountains. He was caught sending information to a trusted contact and he died, never to know that he died a hero.
Classified is the story of simple people, their efforts to keep this country safe, and the system that prompted them to take up arms and protect the innocent.

Classified is the prologue to a crime series I am plotting, Les Dames Des Fleurs. I have scheduled the series to (hopefully) come out later this year on Buqo, Amazon and other online platforms. So, pray for me? Haha!

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Oh, also available on Buqo from me is With You Tonight, a very short story for #TalesFromTheMetro. These are stories that are inspired by a popular song. It’s only for P15.00! Am coming up with more of these shorties. Will update you via this blog, and my FB pages, for news.

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