Princess Creates the Thing

I've started working on a Middle Grade urban fantasy/paranormal series-of-sorts that's also semi-autobiographical. It's about a 13 year-old Filipina named Ning Santos who stumbles upon a box of items that belongs to her great-grandpa who died way before her mom was born. The items, such as his anting-anting (amulet), were collected from his US Navy heydays and become a trigger for weird occurrences around town. Throughout her journey, Ning gets to know her past and bridge a cultural gap in a time where the wrong kind of patriotism encourages erasure of ancestral knowledge and wisdom. And I'm just going to drop some  (ok, a lot of) links to the various elements and inspiration behind this series: Fil-Am History 5 Things You Didn't Know About the Watsonville Riots  (dooblydoo contains links to articles) Little Manila: Filipinos in America's Heartland Filipino Americans Discovering Their Past for the Future Acradia Publishing: Filipinos in San Diego Filip...

After ruminating on this new sense of creative energy over the past few months, I thought it fitting to dedicate a blog for it. While my other blog was more fandom-centric, random, and mostly neglected, this one will attempt to be a more organized space for actual work (writing, drawing, and anything creative and related). That's it for now.