The author's unexpected journey

If one had told me years ago that I would be writing about something else besides romance, I probably would have laughed. Romance was where I became a published author - I wrote stories about love, longing and the messy beauty of human emotions deliberately ignoring the way people dismiss it as if it’s some lesser genre when in reality it demands so much emotional depth, nuance, and skill but let me talk about this in another post . It was my comfort zone, familiar and safe. Love, after all, is a universal experience. But then, something changed. Panglawan Series. I plan to add at least one more book. I joined a writing community hoping against hope that my creativity that the pandemic took away would come back. Pinoy Indie Authors became another family that embraced me as an author with only romance books in my portfolio. My English didn't have to be exceptionally well. My talents were thoroughly explored. And just like that, I caught myself adding a twist of adventure to my tama...