Bino A. Realuyo is Q-uerying 🕺🏾

After taking a long break, I’m back at #literaryagent search. Fresh new eyes. #Amquerying

Memorializing Jose Rizal Bino Realuyo memorializes Jose Rizal in his blog. Rizal's birthday is on June 19th. His memory is 164 years old. Happy birthday, Jose P. Rizal.

Happy birthday, Jose Rizal.

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#BataanNewJersey is a sweeping, multigenerational saga spanning 100 years, 4 generations, & multiple countries. It intertwines the complex legacy of the Filipino-American diaspora with the intimate struggles of Filipino women & queer individuals carving their own paths through war and survival.

Thank you, Leonard Casper! The late literary critic and professor Leonard Casper was from my father’s time.  He was two years older than my father, born 1921.  Both served during World War II.  Theirs was a generation of men th...

A first novel will always be the first love. #TheUmbrellaCountry is still in print after 25 years. Always grateful to literary critics like #LeonardCasper for their writings about the novel. Here’s a tribute.

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One day, when and if the stars align, I will call @tupelopress.bsky.social my home.

For now, thank you for making me searchable on your website and … for the gift of grace.

Urgency. 83rd anniversary of #Bataan

My historical novel #BataanNewJersey …

How it started/how it finished.

Urgency.

This week is the 83rd anniversary of the Fall of Bataan — the heart of my historical novel #BataanNewJersey

Nice to be cheered when I sent off my 700-page novel to a #literaryagent 🙏

Universe, wish me luck.

No sales on publishers marketplace. Query?

Maybe not.

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One query letter and two hours later. 🥸

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Queried 3 #literaryagents. It’s a big Sunday.

And the Philippines is back on international media. Thanks to international criminal #Duterte

These authoritarian dictators are the reason I wrote #BataanNewJersey

@mariaressa.bsky.social María Ressa’s book on full play yesterday for all of us to see.

#HowtoStanduptoaDictator

There are no dress rehearsals. #zelensky #Ukraine

Mysterious Ancestry In the Philippines, we have this saying "lukso ng dugo." Lukso (jump/leap), Dugo (blood), the ethereal mesh of "leap of faith" and "blood is thicker than water." The things we do for things we can't...

There is much confusion about Filipino heritage because of our Spanish last names. Most don’t have Spanish in their blood at all.

And there is my mother. She is 15% European origin.

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Images describing the novel Bataan New Jersey

We need more than ever to breathe life into #WWII novels, esp books that transcend the story beyond the usual trope.

#BataanNewJersey

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Valentine’s Day themed border of dozens of tiny hearts in shades of red and pink on a pale grey background. Text reads: Publishing Your Work | Poetry & Writing Calls for Submissions February 2025: Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies.

Over 150 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, non-fiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in February 2025. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

Queried two agents today Sunday.

That’s the big show on this dreary and rainy NYC day.

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Is #literaryfiction rare on hashtag MSWL?

First time to actually follow the “scene”

And why do I have this funny feeling this might not be for literary fictionists?

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Today is a holiday for this FT management director, but my other life calls as I read through hashtag MSWL for my novel #BataanNewJersey

Been up for hours now… in a coffee shop where I normally write.

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So so excited to support hashtag MSWL day.

An extra plus if the #literaryagent is looking for #literaryfiction or #historicalfiction in the veins of Pachinko, Covenant of Water or The Glass Palace.

#amquerying for #BataanNewJersey

Poems by Bino Realuyo Easier to say, there / are too many poets and there aren’t enough rebels. (poetry)

Rebellion is a gift, and a task. Open it.

From #TheRebelSonnets

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The son of a #BataanDeathMarch survivor explores what happened before, during, and after 1942’s Bataan. The result is an epic 100-year journey through 4 generations of a #Queer Filipino family in the aftermath of 3 successive wars inflicted on Philippine soil.

BATAAN NEW JERSEY.

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#BataanNewJersey was shortlisted for a #NYFA for fiction in 2024. Still screeching about it.

Worked hard for it and really wanted my 3rd NYFA so I can finally … hush🤐🤐🤐

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Promo for the novel Bataan New Jersey

The #BattleofManila is a huge part of #BataanNewJersey From 1941-1945, Manila experienced the worst of #WWII

Today is its 80th anniversary.

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My father survived the #BataanDeathMarch. My mother was born during #WWII. I wanted to explore what happened before, during, & after?

#BataanNewJersey

100 years.4 countries. 4 languages. 1 Epic novel. 4 Gens of strong Filipino women & #QUEER.
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Excerpt from the novel Bataan New Jersey with the word “flair.”

#WIPSnips “Flair”

Who knew I used that word?

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After reading #Pachinko and after witnessing the return to power of populist Marcoses in the Philippines, I wrote #BataanNewJersey. Took 3 years of writing every morning in a coffee shop b4 work.

I grew up under #fascist Martial Law. #HistoryRepeats

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Images from 1991 for the novel Bataan NewJersey

Covenant of Water meets Pachinko

100 years. 4 Gens of strong Filipino women and #Queers

One comes of age in the streets of New York in 1991. IrmaLaHermana—she would eventually be called. The 4th generation in the epic literary novel—

#BataanNewJersey

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I write books on top of a FT education management job (which I love!). So on weekends, I put another hat on. Today, I begin narrowing down #literaryagents to Query in 2025.

Pub marketplace is a gift!

#BataanNewJersey

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Excerpt from Bataan New Jersey with the word Goal.

#wipsnips GOAL

#BataanNewJersey

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Pachinko meets Covenant of Water

100 years 1921-2021. 4 Gens of strong Filipino women & #Queers reshaping the aftermath of 3 successive male-dominated wars inflicted by Spain U.S Japan on Philippine soil.

BATAAN NEW JERSEY

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100 yrs 1921-2021
4 Gen of a #QUEER Filipino family
3 wars inflicted by Spain US Japan
65 miles of #BataanDeathMarch
4 languages
4 countries
in 1 epic #literary novel inspired by a survivor of #WWII Death March (my father) #BataanNewJersey

#uw #pw #amquerying #A #YouDeservepit #literaryfiction