usa today, indie list, sunday times, and new york times bestselling enemies-to-lovers advocate ❦ up next: A MONSOON RISING (harper voyager) ❦ rep: thao le
Pedro Pascal’s agent: So there’s this role—
Pedro: I dunno I’m a little busy
Agent: It’s a gruff man who is forced to become a father figure but actually ends up caring—
Pedro: Say no more I am on my way sign me up I am getting into the car I’ll be on set in five minutes
1/3 It’s my great honor to announce that your girl has signed with
@AgentThao
of SDLA! Coming soon: a spicy wartime enemies-to-lovers romance set in ✨ fantasy Southeast Asia ✨ featuring magic, airships, strange beasts, and a marriage of political convenience between sworn foes!
A land ravaged by the storms of conquerors
A refuge across the sea that comes at a price
A volatile alliance between two bitter enemies
A growing attraction as dangerous as it is irresistible
🌩 THE HURRICANE WARS 🌩 2023 from
@HarperCollins
@HarperVoyagerUS
@HarperVoyagerUK
⚔️ Enemies to lovers
🌗 Light and dark
🐃 Southeast Asian fantasy
🔥 An alliance that can save the world—if they don’t end up destroying each other
THE HURRICANE WARS is now available for preorder at
@BNBuzz
! Use code PREORDER25 to get 25% off 💖
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“Your magic has improved,” he told her.
“Do you compliment everyone who’s trying to kill you?” she growled.
“Not everyone.” He smirked. “Just you.”
Alaric/Talasyn from my SEA fantasy romance THE HURRICANE WARS 🌩 Commish by
@artofcrumbs
✨
Add it on 💖
⚔️ As light and darkness clash in a storm-tossed world, two enemies form a volatile alliance—and learn that war is nothing compared to the hidden battlefields of the heart ⚔️
It’s here! My debut romantasy THE HURRICANE WARS releases *today* in the US!
🌩️
The tooka-cat’s out of the bag!
@EverSoAli
and I are contributors to this year’s SW FACPOV, an anthology of short stories commemorating the 40th anniversary of ROTJ. It’s such an honor. I hope you guys will like my piece 🥹🫶🏼
More info and preorder link:
The most Filipino pic I’ll ever post, so Filipino first: JUICE COLORED SABI KO NGA BA NA MAGPAPATARP SILA 😭
Here in the PH, when a family member graduates/passes the bar/etc, you hang a congratulatory “tarp” on the gate outside your house. THIS IS THE GATE OUTSIDE *MY* HOUSE RN
TITLE REVEAL 🌩️
A new storm gathers on the horizon. Dark plots simmer and passions hit breaking point—and Alaric and Talasyn try to survive the fallout.
#TheHurricaneWars
continue in A MONSOON RISING, out 10/22 from
@HarperVoyagerUS
with a fantastic
@BNBuzz
special edition 💖
The darkly dreamlike cover that I prayed for. From the karakoa warships of my ancestors to the dance of the 7 moons, to the star-crossed lovers caught in a storm of fate—it’s perfect. I hope my story is worthy of it 🥹
THE HURRICANE WARS 🌩️ 10.03.2023 ❤️🔥
“Whatever better world you think you’ll build, it will always be built on blood.”
#TheHurricaneWars
has been out for nearly a week! To celebrate, here’s 🔥 art of our star-crossed main couple Alaric and Talasyn, by
@Vivsketchess
💖🌩️
Grab your copy now wherever books are sold!
Somehow this happened??? My first child is on Barnes & Noble’s list of the Best Fantasy Books of 2023??? I’m in a glass case of emotion and utterly gobsmacked and I sound like a broken record but I really cannot thank everyone enough, all of this is beyond my wildest dreams 😭❤️
Two years (I’m lazy and I know nothing *sob*) after I started writing it, my first ever original manuscript is officially in copyedits! What a wild ride. Thanks to my incredible team for putting up with me ❤️ I feel like an empty nester, but now it’s time to work on Book Two 🥹
Holding my book (albeit the non-final version of it) in my grubby hands, feeling the weight of over a year of writing and research, seeing my two stabby chaos children on that gorgeous cover along with my name… Hits different ❤️🔥 Thank you to everyone on my
@HarperVoyagerUS
team!
When you’re offered a dream project by the grace of this sometimes incredible universe but you’re not allowed to scream about it from the rooftops just yet 😭 GUYS Y’ALL KNOW HOW DIFFICULT IT IS FOR ME TO KEEP MY MOUTH SHUT, I’M SUFFERING RN 😭
3/3 I’m excited for this next step in my journey as a writer. It would never have been possible without every single one of you cheering me on. THANK YOU SO MUCH, DEAR FOLLOWERS! I can’t wait for y’all to meet Alaric and Talasyn a.k.a sullen tol and feral smol 🥺 Love you guys ❤️
Hear me out... what if three stooges get thrown together in a multiverse collision and have to become allies in a desperate race to get back to their own timelines
My 60-year-old aunt, a grandmother of two, over dinner: I love Alaric, when you make the Hurricane Wars movie you have to cast someone very big to play him 🙂 Not someone puny
HER HUSBAND, MY UNCLE: I think the R-18 scene wasn’t graphic enough
Me just trying to eat my steak:
I’m at a loss for words but filled with so much love for you all! THE HURRICANE WARS is Number 5 on Barnes & Noble’s Top 100. We don’t even have a cover yet and it won’t be released until fall, but you guys really came through 😭 Thanks for an amazing first day of preorders! 🥹🫶🏼
2/3 This no-longer-secret project was over a year in the making and I can’t thank Miss Thao and
@gelrdrgz
enough for reaching out and believing in me. LWABOC will remain up for the time being as the story has turned into something totally different, but that’s subject to change.
Okay guys I’m actually still neck-deep in writing this book but I got the new kitten today so this is the official 🎉✨ WELCOME HOME, TRUFFLES 🎉✨ thread!!! 😽💕
She headbutted me like half a minute into our first meeting 🥹🫶🏻 I finally have a friendly pet 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻
Six vet techs were needed to hold me down for grooming and booster shots and I hissed at a puppy and made it cry... my work here is done 😌 SIGNED, DARTH PANCAKES
In all the excitement of release week, I actually forgot it was my b-day. Spent the first few hours answering e-mails, filling out interviews, and Trying (TM) to write 😅 But I remember now so HAPPY 34TH TO ME 🥳🍰 It’s been an amazing trip around the sun. Cheers to the next 💜💛
The host joked about him being too tall for the woman behind him to see the stage and he really tried to hunch down in his seat 😭 THE FRENCH ARE HAVING A FIELD DAY WITH THIS MAN I’M—
My dad just told me over the phone, “No, no, no, forget about taking your masters. What for? No need.”
💃🏻 THAT’S ASIAN PARENT-SPEAK FOR FINALLY ACCEPTING MY CAREER PATH AS A WRITER, THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS MOMENT CANNOT BE OVERSTATED!!! 💃🏻
Ben Barnes is the dashing and urbane fiancé in Sweet Home Alabama while Adam Driver is the rough-and-tumble hometown ex Reese Witherspoon never forgot, which means that they are equally hot but occupying different niches on the spectrum of the media consumer’s romantic yearnings
My author copies have arrived! Full disclosure: I cried 🥹 This edition of THE HURRICANE WARS hits US shelves in two weeks, and still can’t believe I get to weave my cherished enemies-to-lovers trope into a fantasy setting inspired by my culture and share it with the world ⚔️💖🇵🇭
Lots of exciting news re: THE HURRICANE WARS cover and other editions that I’m not yet allowed to share—and preorder links prolly won’t go live until early next year—but, in the meantime, read on for a sneak peek of the opening 🌚 Coming your way in October 2023 💖🌩️
I don’t even know what to say. They put a little hat on him. They told me he was the sweetest cat ever and he was the only one they allowed to chill in the living room because he was apparently so well-behaved. They carried him around like a baby. What is he planning? I’m scared.
Took Truffles in for her shots and the vet said “Ma’am can I ask, are you the author of The Hurricane Wars?” 🥹 Then I heard him tell the vet techs “I told you a celebrity was coming in” SDSFGHK
My debut novel
#TheHurricaneWars
is a USA Today, Indie, and New York Times bestseller in its first week of release! Thank you: 🦋 fandom, Filipino community, all the bloggers, librarians, booksellers advocating for THW on their shelves, my agent Thao Le, and my Voyager team 💖🌩️
The cat is out of the bag! 💕😆
I have the honor to illustrate both US and UK covers for
@theagwrites
's The Hurricane Wars! Coming soon in 3 Oct 2023!!✨
This year I’m on Preview Magazine’s annual list of 25 rising creative talents—🥹 They call us “the young blood of the Filipino art scene” and, while these aching bones of mine beg to disagree, it’s still such an honor 💜
P.S. Yes, that chicken scratch is my actual penmanship 🐣
My favorite thing about the Force healing scene was how she absolutely had to lay her hand on that big ol’ uninjured tiddy to do it. That’s not where his wound is but go on, girl, live your best life 🙌🏼
My author website is now live! 😍
I’ll be adding preorder links, cover art, etc, as soon as they’re available. For now, I’m proud to present—for the first time ever—a detailed synopsis of THE HURRICANE WARS 🌩
Read it in full ➡️
It’s with joyous disbelief that I announce THE HURRICANE WARS is a Sunday Times bestseller in its first week of release in the United Kingdom! I never imagined my debut novel could make it all the way to the fifth spot. Thank you, dearest U.K. friends, for this perfect storm 💖🌩️
Somebody pinch me because I must be dreaming! THE HURRICANE WARS is the Deal of the Day on Publishers Marketplace! 🥺
From cunning linguistics at masquerade balls and “What’s wrong with your face?” “I’M FLIRTING WITH YOU” to this… ❤️
Prepare to be blown away by this Deal of the Day! I've been a fan of the brilliantly talented
@theagwrites
for years, and I am beyond thrilled to work with her and the marvelous
@agentthao
and
@natashabardon
on this magical, spicy, epic debut!
The Hurricane Wars aren’t over. New magic is made and old secrets come to light—and two hearts circle each other in the eye of the storm.
Alaric and Talasyn return to the UK this October 24 from
@HarperVoyagerUK
🌩️
Preorders ➡️
Thought I was hallucinating when I got the e-mail, but my cat slapped me when I hugged him in joy and the lingering sting is how I know this is real 🥹 Tysm for supporting this enemies-to-lovers-stanning hot mess of a vodka auntie who had nothing but an evil cat and a dream 🦋💖
LOOK WHAT CAME IN THE MAIL JUST NOW SDSGHK I LITERALLY WENT DOWNSTAIRS IN MY PJS TO PAY THE WATER BILL AND FRONT DESK HANDED ME THIS 🥹 I finally have it!!! The Fox & Wit exclusive edition of my baby is finally in my grubby little hands!!! So blown away by the sheer beauty 💜💛
I’ve been sitting on this amazing news for a while and now I can finally announce! There will be a Waterstones exclusive edition of THE HURRICANE WARS! Look at those gorgeous sprayed edges 😍 Currently available for preorder at 🌩️
And now, in collaboration with Waterstones, it’s time for the U.K. cover reveal of THE HURRICANE WARS! Just like with the U.S. edition,
@_afterblossom_
blows us all away with another gorgeous piece. And this video!I’m screaming! Hashtag blessed 🥹🫶🏼 U.K. preorders below! ❤️🔥
Little by little, year by year, the Hurricane Wars take more and more from those who resists the empire's supremacy. And yet, there is hope in the darkness...
The Hurricane Wars is the epic new fantasy from
@theaguan
coming this October, pre-order here:
She’s here and she’s beautiful!!!
My
@Waterstones
edition of
#TheHurricaneWars
has arrived 🤩 This is the edition that sold out before pub date, which is still so mind-blowing to me, though I fully credit that feat to @/behindthebooklore (on IG) and team because it’s GORGEOUS 🔥
You guys!!! THE HURRICANE WARS has garnered its first ever trade review and it’s from Library Journal and it’s starred *and* it’s Library Journal’s science fiction/fantasy debut of the month!!! Words cannot express, so I will just cry tears (of joy and relief) instead 💖
APART FROM BEING ON THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP 15 HARDCOVER FICTION BOOKS, SOMEHOW THE HURRICANE WARS IS ALSO AMONG USA TODAY’S 150 TOP BESTSELLERS OF THE WEEK??? Love you rats!!! 😭❤️
I’m so excited to invite you all to the virtual launch of THE HURRICANE WARS! Join
@EverSoAli
and me as we talk my debut romantasy and the knotting, I mean knots, that tie us together. I apologize in advance for how chaotic it’ll be 💃🏻
Event registration:
Today my book had its Philippine launch, thank you to everyone who made the time to drop by! From the new readers to the longtime moots to the irls who turned up to surprise me, it was so great seeing you all! 💖