Phenomenal Pen
Magical Storytelling
THE WORKS
Hi! Welcome to my raven. Yes, you heard that right. This is my raven. Or at least it is if you listen to the Mad Hatter in Lewis Caroll's Alice's Adventures inWonderland.
But since you neither resemble Alice nor look lost, I'll simply call this my writing desk. Go ahead and look over my shoulder to see what I've been up to. You can also offer some friendly comments because there's nothing I enjoy more than hearing from readers.
Without further ado, I present to you...
The Boyfriend App
GENRE: YA Contemporary Romance
Weeks before Valentine’s, seventeen-year-old Kate Lapuz goes through her first ever breakup, but soon she stumbles upon a mysterious new app called My Dream Boyfriend, an AI chatbot that has the ability to understand human feelings. Casually, she participates in the app’s trial run but finds herself immersed in the empathic conversations with her customizable virtual boyfriend, Ecto.
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In a society both connected and alienated by technology, Kate suspects an actual secret admirer is behind Ecto. Could it be the work of the techie student council president Dion or has Kate really found her soulmate in bits of computer code? She decides to get to the bottom of the cutting-edge app. Her search for Ecto’s real identity leads Kate to prom, where absolute knowledge comes with a very steep price.
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Boys Are Wolves
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GENRE: Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy
HUNTER OR GAME. WHICH ONE ARE YOU?
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Benjamin “Ben” Generoso is the brilliant mind behind Boys Are Wolves, the first and only breakup support app on the planet. It gathers and analyzes content freely available on social media and, with the help of an AI-powered virtual assistant named Kane, creates millions of personality profiles to discreetly reach out to girls trapped in toxic relationships.
As Boys Are Wolves gains traction, it becomes clear that the clientele isn’t randomly selected by an algorithm after all. The clients are linked, directly or peripherally, to the mysterious disappearance of a teen student of prestigious Enderun University three years ago. Who truly is Ben Generoso and what is his connection to the coed who is missing?
The Reaper's Pet
GENRE: Paranormal Romance, New Adult
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DEATH GETS A LOVE LIFE.
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When metalhead Janet Buenviaje dies in a diving accident, she falls into an underworld prison where the only way out is through an eccentric reaper named Septimus Rex. As monarch of Soul City, Septimus Rex leads an army of supernatural Ravens tasked with the deportation of overstaying souls from the mortal realm.
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But the fates smile on Janet because the head reaper has problems of his own. He has fallen in love with a mortal girl; an abhorrent sign of weakness that, if discovered by the Ravens, will start a power struggle in Hell. With Janet's help, Septimus must now attempt to confess his feelings to the girl of his dreams so he can go back to being devoid of human sentiment.
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Janet is reincarnated as a Wampus Cat reaper and hatches an escape plan to the surface world. But she finds that things in the underworld are not what they seem and Septimus's problems run deeper, somehow even linked to her own mysterious past.
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Dragon-kissed
GENRE: Dragon-shifter, Fantasy Romance, YA
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THE PRINCESS IS OUT OF THE TOWER.
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Born into warring Dragon Slayer clans, wind guardian Aki and fire-tamer Temujin walk paths that couldn’t be farther apart. But their separate worlds are thrown into chaos by the theft of the Egg of the Dragon God, an ancient relic that grants its possessor limitless power. To bring back peace to their lands, Aki and Temujin must learn to fight side by side against a new breed of shapeshifting demon-warriors.
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SKYE is the Limit
GENRE: Sci-Fi, Adventure, LitRPG, YA
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THE ONLY WAY OUT IS AWAKE.
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Eighteen-year-old Rafa Cruz has aged out of foster care and is living on the streets. He’s a busker and a petty thief. By a strange quirk of fate, a smartphone that he has stolen wins him a slot as one of the few beta-testers of a revolutionary technology called “SKYE”.
OmniSys, the world’s largest technology company, has discovered a way to combine lucid dreaming with the experience of RPG. They select five young adults from across the globe to take part in the trial run of SKYE: a backpacker, a veterinary student, a fitness motivator, a brittle bone disease survivor and… Rafa, a pickpocket. The Astralblazers, as they’re fondly dubbed by the press, will journey through the highly unpredictable environment of their collective dream to meet a mystical character known as Atom the God of Creation.
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DISCOMFORT ZONe
GENRE: Sci-fi, Suspense, Romcom
DITCH COMFORT ZONE. DECODE GIRL. SAVE WORLD.
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Virgin, hypochondriac college sophomore Theo Bondoc is about to get his prayers answered. A girl literally falls from the sky to become his first ever girlfriend. But he got more than he bargained for because the beautiful Amy Miyahara acts certifiable. She has multiple aliases, thinks she’s a superspy, and sometimes speaks in literal code.
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Now Theo must get to the bottom of Amy’s eccentric behavior for their love to stand a chance. The problem is, Amy lies not only out of his league but way out in his… discomfort zone.
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