Our Publications
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.
View our full book catalog here.
A Death Foretold: The Ninoy Aquino Assassination Remembered
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
LIFT: The Story of Hidilyn Diaz (Forthcoming 2024-2025)