Welcome to the Quill Ink, where I share all my upcoming editing and writing projects, book reviews, and other newsy bits. Since 2013, I have worked with over fifty-five authors, edited numerous contemporary and historical romance, Austen-adjacent, and chick lit books, and curated seven multi-author anthologies.

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At art school, I worked as a student docent. At a photography installation, I noticed a provocative black and white image of legs wrapped in bedsheets captioned “I remember hearing a story about God and the angels separating a soul into two beings. It's then their destiny to find their lost half.” Life pulled me in other directions, but that idea remained a silent thread woven through the years. Since 2013, I’ve edited over fifty-five novels, including curating and self-publishing five multi-author Austen-adjacent anthologies. I've researched reincarnation, past regression therapy, English fairy fables, the Georgian-era, and even historic equine bloodlines. Like main character Jude, I'm half-Filipino/half white, an art lover, and an unabashed Anglophile, leading me to write "what you know." After years of being immersed in stories, reviewing books for blogs, and editing clients’ manuscripts, I realized my passion wasn’t just in consuming stories but in crafting them. I often jotted down scenes or sketched out characters, but it wasn’t until the stillness of the COVID pandemic that I permitted myself to write in earnest. With time to reflect, I returned to that long-held idea and, piece by piece, brought it to life—finally claiming the title I’d always privately desired: writer. I hope this first novel inspires tears, then tears of joy—but mostly, makes you want to believe in the one.

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WOMAN IN THE PAINTING begins in the cut-throat modern world of art acquisition. This multiple-POV, dual-era upmarket fiction blends the Regency wit of Sophie Erwin’s A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting, the layered intrigue of Lost and Found in Paris by Lian Dolan, and the reincarnation element of André Aciman’s The Gentlemen from Peru at 114,000 words. I am querying agent representation. —Christina Boyd