19 that Berkley Publishing Group of Penguin Random House has bought the next three books. The third installment of the saga, “Blackmail and Bibingka,” is set for release in October. In these so-called cozy mysteries, a subgenre of crime fiction, amateur sleuths star as the mystery solvers, the details of sex and violence are excluded, and the crime takes place in a small neighborhood.
Like her award-winning debut novel, “Arsenic and Adobo,” released last May, “Homicide and Halo-Halo” follows a murder-solving local baker, Lila Macapagal. Last month the 35-year-old Filipino American author released the second novel in a planned five-book series, Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mysteries.
When she drafts, she uses an Alphasmart Neo 2 Word Processor – basically, a digital typewriter that connects to a computer. Manansala brainstorms story ideas in Google Docs and jots notes on her iPhone.
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