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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 11d

#RomanceClass If you're working on a book right now, aim to publish by February? So you can launch at our first in-person event of 2026 <3

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 11d

Closing this form in two days and then will send the ARCs a few days after. Thank you!

Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 14d

Sign up to review the Cafe Titas duology! 41yo best friends Sabrina and Erika, the cafe they started together, and the romances they find in their 40s.

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Sign up: Digital review copies of the CAFE TITAS duology (FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING and MY USUAL AND YOU)

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 12d

On the blog: Reflecting on ten years of partnering with performing arts people to bring our books to life (aka live readings) + Meeting new people #RomanceClass

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Merienda and Meet-Cutes Sept 27 [post-event] | Mina V. Esguerra

Previously: We tried live readings of our romance books, and it became a main feature of our events. Then we tried live readings of sex scenes. Also now a semi-regular thing, under specific (controlle...

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 12d

thank you, charles!

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 13d

The census and its secrets 😅

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 13d

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Olivia Dade @oliviawrites.bsky.social · 14d

🎇 PREORDER BONUS ALERT! 🎇

If you order SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE from @lovessweetarrow.bsky.social by 11/15, you'll receive a dust jacket inspired by old-school romances, with gorgeous new artwork by @lenikauffman.bsky.social and lots more '80s-inspired fun!

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The graphic has a peachy-pink background and shows the dust jacket for Olivia Dade's SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE. The dust jacket features a naked, hot, fat man on one knee embracing a pretty fat woman, whose hair flows out behind hair and whose suit jacket is falling off her shoulder.

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 13d

*doing this since 2010 (forgot that part).

ANYWAY. I am doing this now using the tools I've collected since then, but for the most part it feels like I have to be new all over again. This will be a blog post, maybe, once I've collected all my thoughts.

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 13d

Just mentioned this in a reply but maybe I'll put it up on main too. I've been doing this (publishing a contemporary romance and then talking about it on the internet) but doing this in 2025 is ugh so different all over again. A different unlike the other ways it was different before.

Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 23d

Erika, 41, has had a steady and less complicated life since quitting her job and helping her best friend open a cafe. What could disturb this peace? Just her favorite customer asking her out on a date, and wanting more.

Out Nov 7! Pre-order here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FS53HTKK #romancelandia

iPad screen displaying the cover of My Usual and You (a woman and a man in an embrace), background is a cup of coffee and cookies

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 13d

Thank you and it feels so odd to do this now, it feels like everything's different haha

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 23d

Erika, 41, has had a steady and less complicated life since quitting her job and helping her best friend open a cafe. What could disturb this peace? Just her favorite customer asking her out on a date, and wanting more.

Out Nov 7! Pre-order here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FS53HTKK #romancelandia

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 14d

Thank you, Kristin! My increasingly tita romanceclass books hehehe

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 14d

Sign up to review the Cafe Titas duology! 41yo best friends Sabrina and Erika, the cafe they started together, and the romances they find in their 40s.

Form and info here:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#RomanceClass #romancelandia #booksky

Sign up: Digital review copies of the CAFE TITAS duology (FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING and MY USUAL AND YOU)

Hello and thank you for visiting the signup form to review the CAFE TITAS duology! CAFE TITAS is a two-book series about forty-one year olds Sabrina and Erika, best friends since college, and the sma...

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 14d

they want to do. Feeling helpless from home lost its appeal. This is a thing I can do, I'll do it.

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 14d

On the blog: Yes I have been thinking about all these writing/bookish trips of 2025 and why do I have energy for this now, and not when I was younger? I don't actually have more energy, I just care more about being where people are and understanding what...

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RomanceClass FeelsFest2025 Baguio [post-event] | Mina V. Esguerra

RomanceClass started doing FeelsFest, our October event, in 2016. There was a set program for it, all the way to 2019. Announcements, book launches, live readings. The routine was meant to give author...

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 15d

Morning!

Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 15d

We usually can't do direct with B&N, and the actual sales for me from this channel is too low to look into setting it up separately, if they did change this at some point.

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 20d

Morning!

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Ana Tejano⁷ @anatejano.com · 23d

I released my first book exactly 11 years ago today (what is time??? 😂). If you’re looking for a short friends-to-lovers romance book set in PH, meet my eldest kids, Rain and Mark. Fall Like Rain is 0.99 on Amz until 9/30. ☔️ : bit.ly/flrnovel 💙

#RomanceClass

Photo of a Kindle ebook on a table beside a paper coffee cup. On the ebook reader is a cover of a romance book with the title FALL LIKE RAIN by Ana Tejano.

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 23d

Feels good to have the team back ahahaha

Miles @milestanbooks.com · 23d

Yesterday's #MeriendaAndMeetCutes with #RomanceClass was fun, despite some technical difficulties getting the stream working fine.

So heads up! Enjoy the stream before I edit and re-upload with a slightly better version. 😆

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 23d

On the blog: Me and RomanceClass at the Manila International Book Fair 2025

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Manila International Book Fair 2025 [post-event] | Mina V. Esguerra

So many events. I love it. This is possible only with partners who are helping carry our books (literally) and giving us seats at the table (literally seats and a table). I keep talking about communit...

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 23d

Morning and thank you!

Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 23d

Erika, 41, has had a steady and less complicated life since quitting her job and helping her best friend open a cafe. What could disturb this peace? Just her favorite customer asking her out on a date, and wanting more.

Out Nov 7! Pre-order here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FS53HTKK #romancelandia

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 23d

Thank you!!!

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 24d

At yesterday's RomanceClass Merienda and Meet-Cutes event, we celebrated our 10th anniversary of live readings and invited people to try out to become part of our live reader pool. So much fun and the livestream replay is available (for paid subscribers) here: www.twitch.tv/videos/25768...

Selfie style photo of Mina at Magdamag 2nd floor. Background is actors rehearsing at one table, authors at another table, readers/guests at some seats near the window.

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 25d

Cafe Titas #1 First Time for Everything also gets a refresh with lettering from Carla!

Cafe Titas is my romance duology about 41yo best friends who start their dream coffee shop in the middle of a national lockdown. My Usual and You is out November 7!

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