Cozy mystery writer Mia P Manansala talks about her debut novel Arsenic and Adobo. and her motivations for writing it.
“I still haven’t been able to find books that represent me and my experience and my family life the way I see it. I have yet to see Filipino Americans in most main stream media and I really wanted to take these things that I love: I genuinely love the cozy mystery genre, I absolutely love food; and I thought I had a very particular point of view that I wanted to put on the page. So it’s not like me reinventing the genre but it is me putting…like a fresh spin. I just wanted to portray the world that I live in, but don’t really get to see on the page very often.”
“I still haven’t been able to find books that represent me and my experience and my family life the way I see it. I have yet to see Filipino Americans in most main stream media and I really wanted to take these things that I love: I genuinely love the cozy mystery genre, I absolutely love food; and I thought I had a very particular point of view that I wanted to put on the page. So it’s not like me reinventing the genre but it is me putting…like a fresh spin. I just wanted to portray the world that I live in, but don’t really get to see on the page very often.”
For those of you who are new to writing the path is not always straight forward not every book is gonna go where you want it to be….Publishing is about rejection.
Books are uniquely portable magic.
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