ROSE CABRERA'S VERY FIRST BOOK

What started as a Facebook birthday post ended up as my very first book, “An Entrepreneurial Wonder Woman.” 

I love to write and as my Facebook wall proves, I love writing long posts about friends, families, and events.  My husband has always encouraged me to do more with my writing skills but I never seriously thought about it, 

Until now.  

The COVID pandemic and related events in my life made me realize that I must take the leap of faith and pursue my passion and dreams NOW because we never know when our days will end.  Thus, in the past year since the COVID lockdown, I’ve been writing and posting in Facebook about my siblings and people who’ve impacted me the most when their birthday comes.  It’s my way of “eulogizing” them while they are still alive to hear it. 

As my sister Techie’s birthday  (March 13) neared, I started writing a birthday post for her on March 8.  Then, I realized that her story is so powerful and inspiring that I can’t possibly fit everything I wanted to say in one FB post!  I began to consider the idea of writing a book.  

I researched online how to write and publish a book and I saw that it was not that daunting.  I could do it!  Self-publishing authors are commonplace these days and I then came across Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.  So March 13 came and went and no birthday post.  I knew then that I would be writing a book and that book would be my birthday gift to her.

On March 16 while I was in the Amazon Kindle DP website, I accidentally pressed the wrong button on my computer that sent my book into pre-order mode!  My book went online in the Amazon website and it was already available for pre-order, with a release date of March 31!  “Oh my God,” I thought, “there is no turning back now!”

I feel compelled to share the life story of Techie by writing a book in order to inspire others, even if only for just a fraction of how it has inspired me. With this book, I uncover a rare gem for the world to see and from whom we all could learn.

There are very few books out there that are written by female Asian (Filipina) authors nor are there many books (if at all) written about a true-to-life experience of a successful FEMALE entrepreneur, who embodies an interesting paradox of an entrepreneur detached from money, with a broken marriage in a Catholic country, who comes from a large family of 12 with no middle child syndrome, who turned her back on the American dream, and who became a happily single grandmother and is now living out her life purpose!  

Through this book, I hope to present to the world a refreshing story of an empowered Filipina, especially amidst the rising tide of anti-Asian sentiment and all the hatred and vitriol around us today.
My book is an easy read and I think you will enjoy it.  Please grab your copy and if you like it enough, please help me spread the word about it.

It’s also perfect that the book came out on March 31 as we wrapped up National Women’s History Month so we could celebrate women beyond the month of March.  Happy reading!

Oh and by the way, happy birthday Techie!