Signed with my dream agent, Sara Crowe!

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…

Oct 3, 2019

We’re [Killswitch] ENGAGED!

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…

May 2, 2019

On This Day 6 Years Ago

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…

Jul 1, 2018

My Reading Stamina is PITIFUL

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…

Feb 28, 2018

COMIC: A Day in the Life of Kara

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…

Feb 7, 2018

I’m Doing Okay

A year ago, I walked into my therapist's office for the first time. There was this darkness that loomed over me, stealing my focus, my confidence, and my heart. Even when people would praise my…

Feb 3, 2018

2017: The Year Things Sorta Happened

I'm just not so sure about 2017. It was an okay year. Definitely no comparison to how much 2016 sucked, but it wasn't that great either. I guess you can say it's part of that…

Dec 31, 2017

Please Believe in Yourself

I opened my present from my friend Isabelle Adrid weeks before Christmas morning. Like a few hours after she gave it to me. Literally the second I got home last Thursday. It was a mug with…

Dec 13, 2017

We Met On Twitter

We met on Twitter. And we finally had the most excellent hangs over Filipino comfort food at Manam in BGC. That's me, Rin Chupeco, Hazel Ureta, Isabelle Adrid, and Gail Villanueva. We're all in different places…

Oct 18, 2017