Our Published Work
Good Intentions is an independent publishing house that aims to create a space for powerful, unique, and refreshing narratives, as well as innovative new techniques, channels, and platforms in publishing.
We aim to promote and support Filipino talent in the various aspects of publishing, from writing to design, all within a sustainable framework for commercial and literary publishing that is always fresh, and always culturally relevant.
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A Death Foretold: The Ninoy Aquino Assassination Remembered
Paperback, 9 x 10 in., 284 pages
ISBN 978-621-96777-5-2
Published 2023
This book gathers intimate recollections and impressions of political oppositionist Ninoy Aquino's assassination on August 21, 1983, during the last decisive days of the Marcos regime. Through the personal testimonies of journalists, artists, writers, personalities, and witnesses from diverse backgrounds and political associations, we unpack the timeline of events that led to the upheaval of an entire nation and the dismantling of a dictatorship—and, soon enough, a bloodless revolution that would restore democracy to a nation.
A Death Foretold gathers hundreds of photographs from those fateful times—many of them previously unseen by the public. It has been roundly lauded by critics and historians alike for its honest and unembellished firsthand retelling of history.
by Luis Joaquin M. Katigbak
Paperback, 5 x 7.8 in., 122 pages
ISBN 978-621-96663-8-1
First published 2000; 2nd printing, 2023
Here are beloved tales about reinvented identities, lost loves, thermoacoustic engines, and Wednesday afternoons, written by one of the most beloved writers of his generation.
More than two decades after its first publication, Happy Endings continues its influence on a new generation of writers with its soft lyricism, dry wit, and snatches of everyday magic.
by Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta
Paperback, 8 x 5 in., 66 pages
ISBN 978-621-96018-1-8
Eros Redux is a new iteration of multi-award-winning poet Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta's first book of poetry, revisiting and reworking many of the poems in order to reveal truer and fresher intentions. Eros Redux imposes the poet’s mature vision on the poems and the experiences that produced them.
The original book The Proxy Eros was nominated for a Philippine National Book Award, and many of the poems won several individual awards.
Luna: A Journal of New Filipino Writing
Edited by Mikael de Lara Co, Miro Capili et al.
Paperback, 6 x 8.2 in., 156 pages
ISSN 2945-3453
Published 2022
Luna: a journal of contemporary Filipino writing. The printed publication gathers the powerful voices of 27 fictionists, essayists, and poets. Luna was our pandemic baby – we invited everyone to tell us their stories and we were flooded by submissions we joyfully collected to produce this folio. We hope it commemorates how we forged on even as we counted our losses, big and small.
Paperback, 7.6 x 10 in., 156 pages
ISBN 978-621-96018-0-1
Published 2019
Stay: 21 Comic Stories is a comic book project illustrated by some of the greatest names in Filipino comic, visual, and photographic art, and written by fictionist Angelo R. Lacuesta. It offers new perspectives and possibilities—both to readers of prose and to readers of comics—and also hopes to widen the audiences of both literature and comics. But more than that, these personal stories evoke the pain and the concern of the human soul.
Paperback, 6.5 x 8 in., 84 pages
ISBN 978-621-8409-00-2
Published 2024
Field is a labyrinth, an intimation of active process. History and memory as bounded field and limitless imagination. Allan Pastrana, as the voice of the contemporary poetic Filipino consciousness and utterance in English, offers us the limits of human experience, and the limitless transformational powers of poetry as it interrogates this experience.
Paghilom: Healing from the Philippine Drug War
by Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta, Michellan Sarile-Alagao, Ana P. Santos, Nikko Dizon and Vincent Go
with photos by Raffy Lerma
Paperback, 8 x 10 in., 183 pages
ISBN 978-621-8409-01-9
Published 2025
Paghilom gathers the lived experiences of families left behind by victims of extrajudicial killings during former President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war. Through the voices of widows, children, mothers, and relatives, the book traces how victims became both central targets and collateral casualties in a brutal state-sponsored campaign.
More than a chronicle of Duterte’s violent legacy, Paghilom is a testament to the Filipino capacity for grace and endurance. These stories confront the raw truth of loss and injustice, but they also illuminate the quiet power of rebuilding—of finding hope and voice in the aftermath.
In assembling these narratives, Paghilom insists on remembering not only what was taken, but also what endures.
Unwritten Women
by An Alcantara, Zea Asis, Audrey Carpio, Mia Concio, Kristine Fonacier, Jerome Gomez, Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta and Yvette Tan
Paperback, 5 x 8 in., 229 pages
ISBN 9786218409026
Published 2025
Unwritten Women gathers the stories of Filipinas whose heroism shone through during the most dangerous and crucial times in the nation's history. While their stories remain largely unknown, the reverberations of these women's actions were felt by the nation: Teodora Alonso, Gregoria de Jesus, Aurora Quezon, Rosa de Alvero, Aurora Aquino, Carmen Rosales, Maria Orosa, and Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc.