

C.J. Edmunds


The second installment of the Tales from the Dark District series is here.
Trina Lee has always known what she wanted.
Mostly, she has the perfect job of sowing the seeds of empathy & understanding by being a guidance counselor at the Forrester Arts College in the magically cloaked community known in Manila called the Dark District. She is beloved by students and has a killer body to die for and to covet.
She had everything figured out until she met Robert Samaniego, the new English professor joining them this term.
With a new semester, a new batch of students to mentor, a new distraction on campus, on top of maintaining a lifelong secret that can unravel at any moment if she doesn’t watch herself, can Trina hold it all together?
Or perhaps the Universe heard her prayers and sent someone to give direction and focus to the life that she thought she was living perfectly.
Someone to hold and protect her. Someone to share and accept her secret and her past. Someone to be there for her and Take Her Hand.

on TAKE ME NOW
If you ever want to just bitch-slap a character from their diva state, and reminisce about going to the historical districts of Manila, this erotic urban fantasy tale is for yous
Renato Tranquilino, Author of Fate of Distant Future
Didn’t expect this. But I was pleasantly surprised. And whoever gets to read this will certainly feel the same way. Imagine a world where your dreams manifest. Are you ready to face it? Explosive! A tale of relationships, self-discovery, and everything else in between.
Jane Vergara, Author of Breaking the Scroll trilogy
I could sum up this book as sort of a lovechild of Anne Rice and Simon R. Green. This book belongs somewhere in between.
Emmanuel Dato, Anne Rice Philippines
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5 of 5 Stars....All the ingredients were there to win me over and the writing is pretty sound.
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H. Bentham, Author of Beyond Light and Darkness and Start Here
I swear this one has got the feels and made me all hot and revved up at the same time. How I wish that
there was a real place such as the Dark District. If you know how to go there, just point me towards the right
direction and I'll be on my merry way! Snap!
Greg Idleman, Author of the Books and Bears series
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MY BOOKS
About C.J.
C.J. never thought he'd be an author someday but he always loved the feel and the comfort of having a book in his hands. Whether it be hardbound or paperback as well as his e-reader, he never leaves home without one.
By day, he used to be a radio personality over at Mellow 94.7 and handles the morning shift, from 10 am-1 pm on weekdays. Currently, he is a Voice Actor by profession and in the evening, slips into his world of the Dark District and chronicles the stories told to him by the people he has met there.
Along with that CJ, is also a singer-songwriter and released his debut album, LOVE HAS FOUND ME, under the artist name, CAZ, which can be found on all streaming platforms. In between that, he tries to squeeze in his writing and reading as much as he can, on top of singing and hosting gigs over the weekend as well as cosplay conventions.
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A Geek at Heart. A Green Lantern, Sith, PotterHead, and a Dwarf living in Middle Earth while being a Watcher and Witch in Sunnydale. He believes himself to be one of the long-lost Halliwell siblings who aspires to open his 3rd Eye more in order to serve the Vishanti better and be a worthy apprentice to the Sorcerer Supreme, Dr. Stephen Strange.
He is also the founder of his own reader's group, Anne Rice Philippines and a member of Justice PH, a DC cosplaying group in Manila, as well Philippine Tolkien Society and the Philippine Lightsaber Guild.
He is also the host of the Urban Fantasy PH podcast on Spotify, Anchor, and Radio Public as well as other podcast sites. The show aims to promote and share work made by local creatives like Authors, Writers, Artists, Comic Book creators, filmmakers and more.
C.J feels that his love for these different fandoms fuels his creativity and imagination and hopes that in turn, it fuels yours.
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He is the author of Take Me Now, the first of 3 stories for his Tales from the Dark District series, now available on Kindle and Kobo as well as in print locally in the Philippines on the SPINE Books pages on Shopee and Lazada. This book was also recently exhibited as part of the Philippine delegation to the 2024 Frankfurt Book Festival.
His second release called Sojourn, which was part of the Darkest Dreams bundle in 2015, and available through the BUQO app has since been revised and expanded as a stand-alone story and is equally available on Kindle and Kobo and now in Print from the SPINE Books page on Shopee and Lazada. He was nominated for Emerging Author of 2024 for the Parangal ng Gintong Pluma. (Golden Plume Awards)
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His novella, "The Elder and The Rat" is featured in the Y/A Fantasy anthology set in the world of Akea, based on the Breaking the Scroll Trilogy by local author, Jane Vergara.
Currently, he has just released "Take My Hand" the second installment in his Tales from Dark District series during the recently concluded Manila International Book Fair. The book along with his previous releases are also available on the Shopee and Lazada pages of his established imprint, SPINE Books, and digitally on the aformentioned platforms on the Books section.
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Currently, he is writing the next story in the series along with other simultaenous side projects. Along with that, he is also working on his first NA series, which will also be set locally and within the Dark District universe, a magical adventure series for kids.
On the music side, he hopes to record and release new music this 2025!
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