Karla Maquiling
Karla has a journalism degree from the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City. She has worked in public relations, handling Manulife Financial, McKinsey & Co., Kenny Rogers Roasters, Oracle, and utilities firms. She has also handled pro bono clients such as Friendlycare, St. Scholastica’s College, and a few independent Filipino artists.
Karla was a project manager for a US-based print-on-demand publishing firm, where she gained solid experience in manuscript editing and review, dealing with a range of literary genres, both fiction and nonfiction. These include self-help, theology, technical, romance, horror, mystery, lifestyle, cooking, travel, history, biographies, memoirs, and children’s books.
Karla has done business writing and market research work for a trade journal based in Greater China, focusing on the following industries: gifts and premiums, furniture and furnishings, fashion and accessories, garments and textiles, and baby and children’s products.
For three years, she ran the much-loved Philippines arts and culture indie site, Pinoycentric, until it closed down. The site is fondly remembered for its popular Q&As on lawyer Adel Tamano; performers Joanna Ampil, Rowena Vilar, Charmaine Clamor, and Stephanie Reese; celebrity chef Ron Bilaro; and writers Danton Remoto, Dean Alfar, among others. You can check out an archived version of the site here (work in progress).
She also ran a Sydney-based blog for a year until her blogging sabbatical in 2010. Her other works include a chick lit novel, Runaway, published in 2007; a coffee table book for the Chicago Dirt Riders launched in 2009; and a financial self-help comic book published in Australia in 2010.
Karla now works as e-mail marketer for a California-based company, where she has at one time or another done the following: ran the corporate blog, managed the (now defunct) forum, edited Web content, and written SEO articles. She has received two awards for her work as e-mail marketing person for this promotional products company and a Florida-based crafts studio.
You know you want her, and she needs more money, so hire her. E-mail privately, please.
