Tag: fiction

  • Writing Heat Level 3 When You’re Filipino

    Writing Heat Level 3 When You’re Filipino

    #RomanceClass Podcast
    #RomanceClass Podcast
    Writing Heat Level 3 When You’re Filipino
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    Intro

    RomanceClass Community Heat Levels

HEAT LEVEL O
No sex on or off the page

HEAT LEVEL 1
Off-page sex mentioned in story

HEAT LEVEL 2
At least one "Closed door" sex scene

HEAT LEVEL 3
At least one "Open door" sex scene

HEAT LEVEL 4
Explicit erotic romance with HEA/HFN

    Hi, everyone and welcome to the #RomanceClass Podcast. #RomanceClass is a community of Filipino authors of romance in English, the readers of the books, and fellow creatives who help us make the stories we love. This is our podcast’s fifth season and we will continue to talk about romance themes, tropes, media, with authors, readers, and fellow creatives. This season we will be exploring topics that influence what we consume and what we create, as Filipinos. On every platform, Filipinos are a huge segment of romance media on the consumer and creator side, but who thinks of us and what we need as creators and the audience? Tayo-tayo rin lang, friends. The #RomanceClass Podcast is produced by Tania Arpa and Mina V. Esguerra.

    Before we start we would like to remind everyone to subscribe to our channel on YouTube. Head over to kilig.pub/youtube, hit the subscribe button, and also click on the bell to be notified when a new video is coming up. My name is Mina V. Esguerra, my pronouns are she/her, and I’m hosting the episode today. 

    This episode is called Writing Heat Level 3 or writing on-page sex, When You’re Filipino. On the panel and contributing to this episode are romanceclass authors, who are Filipino romance authors, who have written and/or edited sex scenes in romance books. 

    Yes, Filipino authors write romance novels with sex scenes. It’s not just our community that does this, but there are published Tagalog romance novels and erotic fiction imprints that have been doing this for years. If you expand your definition of Filipino romance to serial fiction and fan fiction, there would be even more. But there’s a persistent misconception among readers, writers, and the academe that we don’t write sex and you can tell right away who actually isn’t reading romance when you hear them say that. We write it, it’s in published work, but the publishers don’t talk about it or market it because even if they’re willingly making money from it, they’re not always ready to defend it. 

    What we end up with is knowledge about sex scenes in romance that pretty much stays within writing communities and is difficult to then react to and learn from. And also difficult to find what’s excellent if this is the kind of thing you want to read. 

    In RomanceClass we as a community decided that a romance book was going to have certain elements, but sex would not be a required element. We have a heat level scale that ranges from 0 which means no sex on or off the page, to 4 which is erotic romance, and only one author has written. We’ve found it helpful as authors and readers to determine where in the scale our book is, and marketing and selling it accordingly. 

    Today we will be talking to authors who write Heat level 3, ask them about how they feel about writing it, and how readers have responded to their work.

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    Panel

    Got questions? Ask them on the live chat during the stream or tweet @romanceclassbks .

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    This episode was recorded and streamed live on 28 May 2022 over YouTubeTwitter and Facebook. If you’d like to watch the entire stream, check out the video below. If you prefer to listen to the edited audio, you can do so on Spotify or your favorite podcatcher.

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  • Our K-Pop Influences

    Our K-Pop Influences

    Season 4
    Season 4
    Our K-Pop Influences
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    Join romance authors Mina V. Esguerra, Chi Yu Rodriguez, Tara Frejas, Jay E. Tria, Katt Briones, Six de los Reyes, and Danice Mae P. Sison as they discuss how k-pop and k-dramas influenced their fiction.

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    Cast

    • Katt Briones
    • Danice Mae P. Sison
    • Six de los Reyes

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    This episode was recorded and streamed live on March 27, 2021 over YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. If you’d like to listen to the entire stream (it’s a few minutes longer than the audio of the podcast episode), check out the video below.

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  • The Rockstar Trope

    The Rockstar Trope

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    Season 4
    The Rockstar Trope
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    Why do we love rockstars? And why do we love reading about them (and their friends and lovers) in romance books? Authors Mina, Six, Tara, Dawn, and Jay answer these questions and talk about their favorite rockstar stories in korean dramas and other television shows. They also share how they wrote their rockstar romance books.

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    Mina V. Esguerra “Pleasure to Meet You” (Trope: Minor Celebrity)

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    This episode was recorded and streamed live on February 27, 2021 over YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. If you’d like to listen to the entire stream (it’s a few minutes longer than the audio of the podcast episode), check out the video below.

    Subscribe to the #RomanceClass Podcast (and the official podcast newsletter) to get new episodes as soon as they’re available:

  • Keep the Faith – Chapter 14 – Part 2

    Keep the Faith – Chapter 14 – Part 2

    Season 3
    Season 3
    Keep the Faith – Chapter 14 – Part 2
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    The solitude of the chapel and his nearness had made me very aware of what had made its way into my consciousness ever since I met Lucy: Nico was available. I couldn’t deny the thrill I felt at this thought, but at the mention of his last relationship, I felt a little drop in my stomach.

    Keep the Faith by Ana Tejano

    For Season Three of the #RomanceClass podcast, we’re bringing you the full, unabridged audio narration of Keep the Faith by Ana Tejano , one chapter a week. The narrator for Chapter 21 is Jade Albert.

    This is the second part of Chapter 14.

    Subscribe to the #RomanceClass Podcast to get new chapters as soon as they’re available: Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts. You may also use the RSS feed for your podcatcher of choice.

    Follow Ana Tejano on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Her website is at anatejano.com .

    Follow Jade on Instagram, Twitter and Soundcloud.

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    What Kind of Day (Six 32 Central #1) by Mina V. Esguerra

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    What Kind of Day by Mina V. Esguerra

    It’s a bad day for Ben. After years of earnest work, he’s been fired from his job as a speechwriter for a Philippine senator. Name tarnished and bridges burned, he steps into what he thinks is a shuttle ride home, and accidentally joins a tour of his own city.

    It was supposed to be a good day for Naya. Her passion is traveling, her hobby is discovering cool things to see and do, and taking people on tours of Metro Manila is her only job right now. An extra person at the last minute isn’t ideal, especially if the person is a former colleague and the subject of the day’s hottest political trash fire. But work is work, and she decides to let him stay in the tour.

    She’s hoping she won’t regret it. He’s hoping his day turns around. What kind of day could it be? Maybe the best kind.

    Buy it here!

    Subscribe to the #RomanceClass Podcast to get new chapters as soon as they’re available: Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts. You may also use the RSS feed for your podcatcher of choice.

    The #RomanceClass Podcast is produced by Tania Arpa and Mina V. Esguerra. Sponsorships are open. If you’re interested, please email us at mina@romancepodcast.com .

  • Keep the Faith – Chapter 14 – Part 1

    Keep the Faith – Chapter 14 – Part 1

    Season 3
    Season 3
    Keep the Faith – Chapter 14 – Part 1
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    “Wait!” I exclaimed, trying to plant my feet firmly on the ground, but Nico was stronger. My mind and heart raced — had Lucy been here all this time?

    For Season Three of the #RomanceClass podcast, we’re bringing you the full, unabridged audio narration of Keep the Faith by Ana Tejano , one chapter a week.

    This is the first part of Chapter 14. Part 2 is going live next week.

    The narrator for Chapter 14 is Jade Albert.

    Subscribe to the #RomanceClass Podcast to get new chapters as soon as they’re available: Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts. You may also use the RSS feed for your podcatcher of choice.

    Follow Ana Tejano on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Her website is at anatejano.com .

    Follow Jade on Instagram, Twitter and Soundcloud.

    Sponsor

    What Kind of Day (Six 32 Central #1) by Mina V. Esguerra

    Buy it here!

    What Kind of Day by Mina V. Esguerra

    It’s a bad day for Ben. After years of earnest work, he’s been fired from his job as a speechwriter for a Philippine senator. Name tarnished and bridges burned, he steps into what he thinks is a shuttle ride home, and accidentally joins a tour of his own city.

    It was supposed to be a good day for Naya. Her passion is traveling, her hobby is discovering cool things to see and do, and taking people on tours of Metro Manila is her only job right now. An extra person at the last minute isn’t ideal, especially if the person is a former colleague and the subject of the day’s hottest political trash fire. But work is work, and she decides to let him stay in the tour.

    She’s hoping she won’t regret it. He’s hoping his day turns around. What kind of day could it be? Maybe the best kind.

    Buy it here!

    Subscribe to the #RomanceClass Podcast to get new chapters as soon as they’re available: Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts. You may also use the RSS feed for your podcatcher of choice.

    The #RomanceClass Podcast is produced by Tania Arpa and Mina V. Esguerra. Sponsorships are open. If you’re interested, please email us at mina@romancepodcast.com .

  • Keep the Faith – Chapter 11 – Part 1

    Keep the Faith – Chapter 11 – Part 1

    Season 3
    Season 3
    Keep the Faith – Chapter 11 – Part 1
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    For Season Three of the #RomanceClass podcast, we’re bringing you the full, unabridged audio narration of Keep the Faith by Ana Tejano , one chapter a week.

    This is the first part of Chapter 11. Part 2 is going live next week.


    The narrator for Chapter 11 is Jade Albert.

    Subscribe to the #RomanceClass Podcast to get new chapters as soon as they’re available: Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts. You may also use the RSS feed for your podcatcher of choice.

    Follow Ana Tejano on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Her website is at anatejano.com .

    Follow Jade on Instagram, Twitter and Soundcloud.

    Sponsor

    What Kind of Day (Six 32 Central #1) by Mina V. Esguerra

    Buy it here!

    What Kind of Day by Mina V. Esguerra

    It’s a bad day for Ben. After years of earnest work, he’s been fired from his job as a speechwriter for a Philippine senator. Name tarnished and bridges burned, he steps into what he thinks is a shuttle ride home, and accidentally joins a tour of his own city.

    It was supposed to be a good day for Naya. Her passion is traveling, her hobby is discovering cool things to see and do, and taking people on tours of Metro Manila is her only job right now. An extra person at the last minute isn’t ideal, especially if the person is a former colleague and the subject of the day’s hottest political trash fire. But work is work, and she decides to let him stay in the tour.

    She’s hoping she won’t regret it. He’s hoping his day turns around. What kind of day could it be? Maybe the best kind.

    Buy it here!

    Subscribe to the #RomanceClass Podcast to get new chapters as soon as they’re available: Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts. You may also use the RSS feed for your podcatcher of choice.

    The #RomanceClass Podcast is produced by Tania Arpa and Mina V. Esguerra. Sponsorships are open. If you’re interested, please email us at mina@romancepodcast.com .

  • About the #RomanceClass Podcast

    Hello! Welcome to the #romanceclass podcast. Each episode is an audio recording of an actor or actors reading a romance novel by a Filipino author. All books featured are written in English.

    Season 1 is narrated by Gio Gahol and Rachel Coates.

    Season 2 is narrated by Rachel Coates.

    Season 3 is narrated by Jade Albert.