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“Out beyond ideas of right and wrong there is a field. I will meet you there.” -Rumi
Mika or Edel graduated with a degree in Education from the State University while a working student. She speaks two Asian languages, two European, and English and is beginning to work on her MA degree. Ambition: to never outgrow fairytales.
Lumaki siya sa bahay na pawid ang bubong, kawayan ang dingding, walang telebisyon, at naglalaro sa bukid na pinamumugaran ng all things bright and beautiful (ng mga ibon at mga halamang makukulay ang mga bulaklak). Pati mga alitaptap at bulalakaw sa gabi.
Her life will always be fantasy-rich because of her awesome field/bukid experience and you can see glimpses of this field in most of her novels—even the ones with city girl heroines. When not meditating on fields at home, she roams around the world.
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Writing Portfolio
Nonfiction book
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Fiction
Music of My Heart. Dahil sa isang aksidente, may napinsalang mamahaling cello si Verdinni at kailangan niyang pagbayaran iyon. Dahil naglayas siya at lilimandaang piso lang ang pera niya, kailangan niyang paglingkuran ang may-ari ng nabasag na instrumento bilang kabayaran. Habang tumatagal siya sa villa ng lalaking cellist, unti-unti niyang natutunugan ang nais ng puso niya… Fiction: Tagalog Romance Novels.
Bookware Publishing Corp., Quezon City. Published 2006
Isla Mariposa.Nag-crash sa Pasipiko ang maliit na eroplanong pinapalipad ni Phillip, CEO, at ng Personal Assistant nitong si Vanessa, isang Medical Anthropologist. Napadpad sila sa isang islang panaka-nakang dinadalaw ng malupit na bagyo. Sa brutal na lugar na iyon, nagtaka at na-alarma si Phillip sa magandang pagbabago ng dalagang malayong-malayo ang hitsura sa mestiza at seksing nobya niyang si Celestine. Fiction: Tagalog Romance Novels. Bookware Publishing Corp., Quezon City. Published 2006
Close To You. Back cover teaser: Simula nang iligtas si Sunny sa isang lasing na may patalim, hindi pa siya personal na nakapagpasalamat kay Lev. Gayunpaman, hindi nawala sa puso niya ang gratitude para sa ginawa nito. He had been her knight in shining armor… hanggang sa ang gratitude ay naging unrequited love na. Then, opportunity showed itself to Sunny. May naisip siyang ideya kung paano mapapalapit kay Lev. Wala na siyang pakialam kahit hindi ang tunay na siya ang nakilala nito. Kahit hindi na nito suklian ang kanyang nararamdaman, basta araw-araw niya itong nakikita, okay lang. Okay nga lang ba? Iyon ang kanyang akala….
Fiction: Tagalog Romance Novels. For Bookware Publishing Corp., Quezon City. Out in August 2009. Critique it and win a prize!
Home at Last. Fiction: Tagalog Romance Novels.For Bookware Publishing Corp., Quezon City. Work in Progress
The Manillah* Chronicles, Manillah, a travel agency, is becoming famous among its women clients especially the sick-of-their job types, the bored types and the broken-hearted ones. To escape their misery, these spunky chicks travel to any destination in the world; from the gentle hills of New Zealand to the temples of Tibet to the cobbled streets of Europe. There they change like caterpillars into butterflies—independent, free, lovely. The problem though is, when they come home and bask in their awesome freedom, they attract men in droves! Fiction: Chick Literature. For ###### Publishing,Cubao, Q.C. Work in progress. *Manillah: Australian for “meandering river”.
Before Dawn Kisses Ithaca. In the aftermath of the Trojan War, while Odysseus steered the battle-weary Argonaut home, a young girl secretly protects the master’s beloved Penelope from suitors who are already ravaging his land. Niobe keeps men from marrying Ithaca’s mistress by undoing her lady’s loom every night. But one of the warriors finds this out. Suddenly Aleixo Aconiton, favored by Athena and the gods, the most ravishing prince-suitor of all, has plans for the clever handmaid. Fiction: Romance Novel, Ancient Civilization (English).For #### #### Publishing, LLC, Oregon, U.S.A. Work in progress
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