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All Our Love, Promdi Heart

 

I don’t come from a sexy province.

That was my biggest challenge coming into this anthology of love stories set in our hometown Philippine provinces. So okay, I took that and joined it with one of the least sexy holidays to complete my setting, added one Trainman, and out came One Certain Day. By the time I typed The End, it turned out I like this origin story 😀

 

Alice and Son are teenagers from Hagonoy, Bulacan, neighbors and classmates in the way you can’t help to be when you are born and raised in a tiny town. One All Saint’s Day finds them on adjacent cemetery lots, stuck for the day with nothing to do but watch the candles burn down and listen in on the chatter of your aunts and your cousins you don’t really know. So they start talking. And Alice starts falling, just a little bit.

Promdi Heart features more awesome probinsya-set stories by Ines Bautista-Yao, Chris Mariano, C.P. Santi, Agay Llanera and Georgette S. Gonzales. Take a tour of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao with us? Thank you! 🙂

Take a quick tour of the Philippines with six hometown love stories.

Visit Jimenez, Misamis Occidental where a priest might just set you up with a man whose dimples are to die for.

Visit Silay, Negros Occidental and get on a horse alongside hunky, hazel-eyed Negrense royalty.

Visit Kalibo, Aklan and find yourself in the arms of a cute drummer boy who just happens to be your kuya’s BFF.

Visit Hagonoy, Bulacan and spend All Saint’s Day next to a distracting boy who promises to write you a song.

Visit Vigan, Ilocos Norte and meet the hot man you used to bully when he was a shy, scrawny boy.

Visit Pundaquit, Zambales and find love in a bronzed fisherman whose eyes hold depths you’ll want to explore.

 

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#romanceclass Podcast Extra: Interview with Chris Mariano, Author of Cover (Story) Girl

The season may be over but we still have extras coming your way. Get inside the head of the authors of the books (heh only if you’re sure you want to) with the author interviews. Here we’ve got Chris Mariano, author of Cover (Story) Girl. She talks about her love for Boracay, the awesome surprises of hearing her work read, and her feelings about Gio reading Gio 🙂

I hope you click here to own the entire #romanceclass podcast season!

Here too to subscribe to the #romanceclass podcast. Season 2 featuring Young Adult books, and Season 3 featuring more New Adult romance will be out very soon ?

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#romanceclass Podcast Episode 5: Cover (Story) Girl by Chris Mariano

I’m late, I know! But if you’re subscribed to the #romanceclass podcast, then you would have already listened to the episode featuring Cover (Story) Girl by Chris MarianoIf you haven’t subscribed OR listened to the podcast yet, then both are just a couple of clicks away. So, go click!

In this episode, Rachel Coates plays Min Hee, while Gio Gahol plays Gio (hehe). And also a waiter. If that doesn’t get you curious, then check out the blurb below: Continue Reading