Press

2025

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June 1, 2025

NTD Morning News Feature

How did we end up here? So lucky to have been featured on the Morning News!

June 1, 2025

ABC4.COM Press Release

Honored to have this Press Release picked up by many outlets. Somewhere Along the Way is LIVE now!

Indie Entertainment Media Author Spotlight

June 1, 2025

Relationships, pain, healing and multicultural relationships. I share all these thoughts with Dr. Laura Wilhelm in this article.

10 AAPI Authors Navigate Identity & Relationships Through Fiction

May 24, 2025

Booktrib shares its top 10 AAPI books for this year’s AAPI Heritage Month!

11 Books About Finding Yourself

May 29, 2025

Thanks to Early Bird Books for featuring Somewhere Along the Way. Take a look at all the other though provoking books on this list!

WWA’s Top 2025 Chief Financial Officers

February 26, 2025

No words. Just so much gratitude.

Anna Gomez joins BOLD MP

February 24, 2025

Pleased to announce that I am now represented by Production Company, Bold MP, lead by Anna Liza Recto.

2024

Kobo In Conversation

November 12, 2024

When the CEO of Rakuten Kobo and the rest of the team actually reads your book and then sits down with you for a very insightful interview…it’s a once in a lifetime thing.

Kobo Writing Life Podcast

September 17, 2024

The team at Kobo Writing Life sure knew how to ask such thought provoking questions! And they were funny too.

Thank you, BOOKTRIB!

September 14, 2024

Loved sitting with Booktrib to talk about my new book, releasing 9/24/24!

2024 IL CPA Society Leadership Award

June 13, 2024

What an honor to be awarded the Woman to Watch Leadership Award for the IL CPA Society!

CNN Philippines New Day, Monday

January 7, 2024

No Words.

2023

Modern Parenting Print Magazine, Asia

2023

This is such a different interview – it speaks to the immigrant experience, working hard and playing hard, and the joys and trials of parenting in another country.

Campaign Asia Article

NOVEMBER 16 2023

Philippines! Thank you for the honor of being featured in one of your largest Advertising platforms.

Adland’s Most Interesting CFO

August 30, 2023

What a Dream Come True! To be featured in my industry’s top publication! It brings both sides of my life together.

US Business News Article

February 14, 2023

Sitting down with US Business News to talk about the importance of sharing your stories and making the world a richer place

2022

Interview with KTLA News

October 12, 2022

Kristoffer Polaha and I talk with KTLA TV News about the first time we met in person

Northwest Indiana Influential Women Finalist

June 21, 2022

What an honor to be among the Five Finalists for the Most Influential Women in Business Award

2021

Northwest Indiana Influential Women’s Keynote

August 26, 2021

Had a blast doing the honors at their first Breaking the Glass Ceiling Series in the August 2022.

How Anna Gomez Does it All

June 13, 2021

Interview with the San Francisco Post on the year I’ve had and the release of Moments Like This.

The Nerd Daily

May 19, 2021

Seven Jane from the Nerd Daily finds out more about my summer release, The Light that Remains

Writers Bloc Interview

April 22, 2021

Interview with Jenny from Writers Bloc about our new release, Moments Like This

2020

Anna Chats with Big Talk’s Laura Gassner Otting

November 13, 2020

How do you start in the mail-room and end up in the CFO’s Office, and how do you hide a career writing best-selling romance novels along the way?

HERoes Top 100 Women Executive Role Models

September 25, 2020

What an HONOR it is to be among this group of amazing women leaders!

What’s next for Anna Gomez, a.k.a. Christine Brae?

September 22, 2020

Want to know the full scoop on why changing my pen name to my real name is so important for this project?

Meet the Hollywood Hunk Who Became a Romance Novelist

September 21, 2020

Meet my co-author, Kristoffer Polaha, and read about his journey to becoming a Romance Author

7 Love Triangles to Sweep You Off Your Feet and Whisk You Away

August 12, 2020

We all need an occasional escape from reality, and what better way than sinking your teeth into a juicy love triangle romance novel? The love triangle trope not only adds drama and suspense to the classic love story, but also can reveal two different sides to the protagonist’s personality. These seven novels feature love triangles that are poignantly reflective of hard choices, their consequences and the fickleness of fate in life. Are there happy endings at the end of these twisting, turning, journeys of love?

The CFO’s responsibility on diversity, unconscious bias and positive outcomes

July 29, 2020

During a CFO Live virtual event, panelists discussed diversity & inclusion efforts and where CFOs are particularly prized to make a difference.

What does it take to become CFO?

July 28, 2020

CFO panelists at the virtual CFO Live conference Tuesday discussed the necessities of becoming CFO in the modern workplace, which traits are most vital and how to navigate common early pitfalls.

2019

Talking “The Year I Left” with Author and Ad-Woman Christine Brae

October 1, 2019

Christine Brae says she thought she could write a book about her life and then run away as far as possible from it.
Not so fast. Six books later, with her recent release of The Year I Left (Vesuvian Books), she is still going strong: a global advertising agency executive by day (and night) and also touching many women through her writing with the same story to tell.

Interview with Christine Brae, Author of The Year I Left

August 20, 2019

What can you tell us about your new release, The Year I Left?
My new book, The Year I Left is the story about a woman who loses herself along the path of being a mother and a wife, and the journey she takes to find her way back.

BookExpo’s Librarians’ Lounge 2019: Meet These Great Vesuvian Books Authors

May 14, 2019

On Wednesday, May 29, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., you can meet some of Vesuvian’s top authors in the Librarians’ Lounge (booth 557) and grab some of your first signed copies of the show.

2018

True to Self: My Creative Life with Leo Burnett

November 6, 2018

Chief Financial Officer Anna Gomez shares her journey of creative discovery and how the agency has supported her.
This essay was originally published on LinkedIn.

2016

Emmanuelle Chriqui and Adrian Bellani Developing Romance Film ‘In This Life’ (EXCLUSIVE)

November 15, 2016

Emmanuelle Chriqui and Adrian Bellani are developing a movie version of Christine Brae’s recently published romance-drama “In This Life,” Variety has learned exclusively.

Christine Brae visits with JNiice of B96 Chicago

February 5, 2016

B96 Chicago Interview with JNiice.

2015

#MIBF2015: Bookworm paradise

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The Manila International Book Fair is back for the 36th time. Four hundred booths, 200 exhibitors, countless reading possibilities and of course, authors galore. Four authors flown in by National Book Store for MIBF include new adult sensations Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher, and Christine Brae, a New York-based Filipino author writing under a pen name. Young adult author Kiera Cass is also back to promote “The Heir,” the fourth book in “The Selection” series.

2015 Manila International Book Fair with Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher

September 15, 2015

Walking down memory lane with this amazing experience.

Between the bookends with YA authors Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher, Christine Brae

September 14, 2015

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — Young adult novelists Colleen Hoover, Tarryn Fisher, and Christine Brae stirred a storm in their first weekend in the Philippines. The three were warmly welcomed in Cebu last Saturday (September 12) and wreaked more havoc when the start of their Manila tour kicked off.