Took the leap and here I am now doing the author-illustrator gig full-time. Yup, I'm stepping away from the life I've known for 10 years as a music journalist. For the meantime. Maybe. It was…
"What's it like being a music journalist?" These days, I think my answer would be "tiring." Heck, I've been in the biz for a good 10 years now and two of those years were spent…
You can't blame the mind for wandering when you've been trapped indoors for months due to a pandemic that’s overstayed its welcome. The comforts of your bedroom shift into odd shapes that fuel insecurities and…
IT'S HAPPENING! It's finally happening! After sleepless nights of checking emails, getting on international calls, and drowning in anxiety, I can finally and proudly announce that I've finally scored my very first book deal for…
LIFE UPDATE: I’ve signed with my dream agent, Sara Crowe at Pippin Properties, Inc. to represent my fiction and book-related art https://twitter.com/karabodegon/status/1179420964402143232?s=20 This team up is all thanks to the very first edition of #DVPit's…
I thought I was gonna surprise Sho on his birthday but ALAAAASSS it was he who surprised me! All I thought was that we were gonna throw Sho a surprise party for his 32nd birthday…
It's a little bit funny how life works. Exactly six years apart from each other, I had my first article published in PULP Magazine and my name in the credits page of Angie Thomas's NYT…
Back when I was six, I told the world that I wanted to write books. I had all these weird ideas I'd turn into stories with my pad papers at school and show them off…
Months before Billboard Philippines folded, I was already working from home. That's the brilliance of online-based companies. You can do your work from anywhere in the world, as long as you have Internet access. I'd…