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The Difficult Loves of Maria Makiling

The Difficult Loves of Maria Makiling

Summary

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Maria is, in no particular order: a concept artist at one of Canada's biggest videogame studios, the goddess of Mount Makiling in the Philippines, and in love. And right now, being in love is her biggest problem.

Because when Maria falls in love, tragedy and death follow-and always have. For hundreds of years. If she wants to break the cycle, it's going to take everything a goddess, her newly-befriended, anime-obsessed demon-horse, and Canadian national treasure Margaret Atwood have to make it happen.

© 2021 Wayne Santos (P) Penguin Audio and Rebellion Publishing 2021

About the author

Wayne Santos

Over the years, Wayne Santos has written copy for advertising agencies, scripts for television, and articles for magazines. He's lived in Canada, Thailand and Singapore, traveling to many countries around South East Asia. His first love has always been science fiction and fantasy, and while he regularly engaged with it in novels, comics, anime and video games, it wasn't until 1996, with his first short story in the Canadian speculative fiction magazine On Spec that he aimed towards becoming a novelist.
He now lives in Canada, in Hamilton, ON with his wife. When he's not writing, he is likely to be found reading, playing video games, watching anime, or trying to calm his cat down. He is currently represented by Jennie Goloboy at Donald Maass Literary.
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