Mica De Leon | Romance + Fantasy Author 📚🩷🌺🐈‍⬛️

Some Days I Wish I Was A Cat cover reveal! My book of essays (containing my 2 Palanca winning works!) with @indiepopbooks @summit.books is coming! In stores and online shops soon in November. 🖤🐈‍⬛️ Synopsis: It’s a confusing time to be a woman in the Philippines. On the one hand, Filipino women have been put into positions of power. On the other hand, the expectations are still the same, raised to want and pursue the ultimate Filipina millennial monomyth: marry a man, give birth, buy a 2-bedroom house, and start a family. Any other way invites ridicule or worse, pity. What’s dating like for a millennial Filipina? Why is Romance such a maligned and antagonistic Literary genre? Why is the power dynamics between men and women during sex never in favor of women? There are no answers to these questions in this collection of personal essays, only accusations and confessions and a guileless, lingering hope that maybe it can get better for women if they keep fighting for their right to be here—and be whatever the fuck they want Cover art by @kieltokki 🫶 I also have events in November. More deets soon! #somedaysiwishiwasacat #creativenonfiction #essays #feministessays #feminism #MicaDeLeon #authorlife

Hi! I'm Mica De Leon. I'm the author of 6 books. Five are from @penguinbookssea : "Meant To Be In Manila," "Winds Of War," "Veins Of Power," "Seeds Of Conquest," and "Love On The Second Read," which has been translated into Korean by @hansaeyes24_fdn and Bahasa by @penerbitbaca . "Some Days I Wish I Was A Cat: Essays" was published by @summit.books , which also published "The End Is Here!: An Interactive Apocalyptic Adventure" for which I contributed a story alongside awesome authors @tsubamesamawp , @sielalstreim , @kendaniel.o , @maxinelaurel , and @missmaplewp . (psst... we're cooking up another interactive book btw hehehe watch out for that.) I'm a two-time Palanca Award-winning writer and I am the executive editor of @summit.books . I have at least two more romances coming out in 2026 and 2027 (one of them is smut ahem lol), and I'm buried under three other writing projects. I like dessert, Taylor Swift, walking on the beach, and rum cokes, highballs, nd amaretto sours, and I have a HUGE crush on @piercebrownofficial (and you know, I like the Red Rising books too lol) Surprisingly, the drink I'm holding in the last photo is just watermelon juice. Lol #MicaDeLeon #authorlife #filipinoliterature

She’s done with destiny. He’s chasing the past. But fate has other plans. Sophia Hermosa is done believing in “meant to be.” After uprooting her life for love—only to be ghosted the moment she lands in Vancouver—she’s heading back to Manila, heartbroken and humiliated. Enter Rafael Herbert: an architect on a mission to win back the girl who ghosted him. When a fateful seat assignment brings them together, they strike a wild deal—he’ll be her fake fiancé for her brother’s wedding, and she’ll help him track down his lost love. But as they navigate Manila’s bustling streets, old churches, and hidden gems, their fake romance starts feeling a little too real. Maybe love isn’t about finding the right person—it’s about finding the right person at the right time. And maybe, just maybe, that time is now. If Jennifer Crusie’s Anyone But You and Abby Jimenez’s Just For The Summer had a love child, it’d be this: a swoon-worthy and laugh-out-loud romance from national bestselling author Mica de Leon of Love on the Second Read.

SINE Book Launch | March 15, 2026

Philippine Book Festival 2026 | March 15, 2026

SHE WHO DEVOURS BOOK LAUNCH | March 7, 2026

For you, the eldest daughter who had to grow up too soon and show up for everyone else before yourself Love Between The Lines (a Love On The Second Read spinoff) by me out in August 2026. Cover reveal soon. #MicaDeLeon #NewBook #lovebetweenthelines #filipinoromance

Sunday Mornings from things i should have said drunk My second book of terrible poetry ia out on Kindle Unlimited now. My next romance, Love Between The Lines (a Love On The Second Read spinoff) from PenguinSEA, will be out in August by the way. #MicaDeLeon #instagrampoetry #lovepoems

out now! my 2nd book of terrible love poems called "things i should have said drun" is now avaialble to read on Kindle Unlimited! #MicaDeLeon #instagrampoetry #lovepoems

Heeeeey!!!! While we wait for my next romance (it's a spinoff of Love On The Second Read btw! Hehehe) to come out in August, i made a book of poetry available to read tomorrow on Kindle Unlimited. Yoi get it free if you're subscribed to KU, but it's available for $2.99. It's called... things i should have said drunk I'm not a poet---i dare not call myself one (gasp the audacity di ba???), but i have a lot feelings. Lol hope you like it! Anyway, here's the back cover poem! Alsooo I'm making my other book of bad poems, Between These Lonely Walls, free to read for five days starting tomorrow. Feel your feelings with me or just you know, cringe at my early writing with me. Lol #MicaDeLeon #instagrampoetry #lovepoems

Some of my fave highlights (I have a lot) from "Some Days I Wish I Was A Cat" by @micadeleonwrites Mica De Leon. I love when a book slaps me in the face and calls me out with all these life crisis things I'm facing as a trentita (is that the right term? idk). Well, obviously, a must read for Filipinas/Filipinos (all inclusive). I lost count how many times I've said "uh-huh," "exactly," and "uff, mica, same!!!!!" Because you know, "Life as a Filipino is hard." I left only few snippets, the other golds are for you to mine. Then let's compare if you've highlighted/bookmarked more than me. *I'm feeling fancy today so I'll be using my insurance, an Advil and probably a liquor tonight.

life with my sister but we’re bookworms 📖 whatever she has, i have to have it too lol jk also ate made me do this with her 🤣 #micadeleon