This episode is called Writing Heat Level 3 or writing on-page sex, When You’re Filipino. On the panel and contributing to this episode are romanceclass authors, who are Filipino romance authors, who have written and/or edited sex scenes in romance books.

Yes, Filipino authors write romance novels with sex scenes. It’s not just our community that does this, but there are published Tagalog romance novels and erotic fiction imprints that have been doing this for years. If you expand your definition of Filipino romance to serial fiction and fan fiction, there would be even more. But there’s a persistent misconception among readers, writers, and the academe that we don’t write sex and you can tell right away who actually isn’t reading romance when you hear them say that. We write it, it’s in published work, but the publishers don’t talk about it or market it because even if they’re willingly making money from it, they’re not always ready to defend it.

What we end up with is knowledge about sex scenes in romance that pretty much stays within writing communities and is difficult to then react to and learn from. And also difficult to find what’s excellent if this is the kind of thing you want to read.

In RomanceClass we as a community decided that a romance book was going to have certain elements, but sex would not be a required element. We have a heat level scale that ranges from 0 which means no sex on or off the page, to 4 which is erotic romance, and only one author has written. We’ve found it helpful as authors and readers to determine where in the scale our book is, and marketing and selling it accordingly.

Today we will be talking to authors who write Heat level 3, ask them about how they feel about writing it, and how readers have responded to their work.

🎙 Join #RomanceClass authors Angel C. Aquino and Carla de Guzman as they talk about writing food in their romance books. This episode is hosted by author Mina V. Esguerra.  

4pm PHT Saturday, 19 March 2022  

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Join #RomanceClass authors Brigitte Bautista, Chi Yu Rodriguez, Danice Mae P. Sison, Layla Tanjutco, and Tara Frejas as they talk about writing a food park-themed anthology for a good cause. Hosted by author Mina V. Esguerra.  

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Join romance authors Jay E. Tria and Tara Frejas on a livestream as they talk about writing romance book series about a group of connected or related characters. Hosted by author Mina V. Esguerra.  

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Join romance authors Mina V. Esguerra and Ansela Corsino on this livestream as they talk about writing romance book series connected by a place.   

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Join romance authors Brigitte Bautista (link: https://www.romanceclassbooks.com/book-author/brigitte-bautista/), Ana Tejano (link: https://www.anatejano.com/) and Mina V. Esguerra (link: https://minavesguerra.com) live as they talk about the romance trope "friends to lovers".

Fall Like Rain (link: https://amzn.to/3FA3cdz) by Ana Tejano

You, Me, U.S. (link: https://amzn.to/3A9rPfV) by Brigitte Bautista

Brigitte Bautista

When she's not chained to a desk writing software code, Brigitte writes lesbian fiction and poetry. Brigitte is a huge sports freak and considers crying over sports strangely therapeutic. She has never met a donut she did not like and atones for the overeating by taking long walks or riding her bike around the city.

Ana Tejano

Ana Tejano has been in love with words and writing ever since she met Elizabeth Wakefield when she was in Grade 3. She has contributed several non-fiction pieces in print and online publications, and has been blogging for years. When she’s not writing, she works as a communications manager for a payroll outsourcing firm, and serves in CFC Singles for Christ in every other time that she doesn’t spend reading or sleeping. She lives in Metro Manila and is also known by another name in her other circles (but it’s not a secret identity, really).

Mina V. Esguerra

Mina V. Esguerra writes contemporary romance novels. Through her blog Publishing in Pajamas (minavesguerra.com), she documents her experiments in publishing.

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Content warning: At 59:00 to 64:00, we discuss Sweet Valley High #40, On the Edge, and its plot that involves the drug-related death of a teen character. If you need to skip this section, we understand. The discussion continues after 64:00 and moves on to other topics.

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Join romance authors Mina V. Esguerra and Tara Frejas on this livestream as they talk about the origins and inspirations of their characters names. Other authors in the community will also share their character name origins. 

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Join romance authors Ines Bautista-Yao, C. P. Santi, Celestine Trinidad, and Jay E. Tria as they talk about how being teachers and professors inform their books. Hosted by Mina V. Esguerra.  

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Join romance authors Mina V. Esguerra, C. P. Santi and Chris Mariano as they talk about writing stories set in different parts of the Philippines.

Chris Mariano 

🕸 http://www.chrismariano.com/ 

🐦 https://twitter.com/dementedchris Amazon: 

http://www.amazon.com/Chris-Mariano/e... 

📚Cover (Story) Girl: https://www.amazon.com/Cover-Story-Gi... 

📚Promdi Heart: https://www.amazon.com/Promdi-Heart-H... 

C. P. Santi 

📸https://instagram.com/arkiCPSanti 

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FB: https://www.facebook.com/CPsantiauthor 

Amazon: http://bit.ly/CPS_books 

📚Dare To Love: (Set in San Pablo, Laguna) http://bit.ly/CPSDareToLove 

📚Sweeter by the Second (in anthology Maybe This Time): (Set in Jimenez, Misamis Occidental) http://bit.ly/CPSMaybeTT 

📚Promdi Heart: (Various locations) http://bit.ly/Promdi_Heart 

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