RJMarmol.com

Who is RJ Marmol?

RJ Marmol is a Manila-based writer, musician, and independent publisher who has been publishing online since 2008. Her work centers on sense-making — turning lived complexity across creativity, systems, and rebuilding into clear, usable frameworks.

She releases music as HeyRJ.

Her debut album of 20-track original songs, Stuck Home Syndrome, is now available on Bandcamp and will be streaming everywhere March 20, 2026.

She also runs Steady Hand Press, an independent imprint for practitioner-led nonfiction and writes books under the author name Cecilia Regina Aquino Blanquera. RJ Marmol’s debut full-length book, Rebuilding Under Debt: Thinking Clearly When Everything Is a Blur, a practical guide to making decisions when margin is thin, cognitive bandwidth is low, and the cost of error is high – is now available on Amazon in ebook and paperback.

Aliases:

HeyRJ (Musician/Artist)

RJ Marmol (Blogger/Content Creator)

Cecilia Regina Aquino Blanquera (Author)

Cecilia Regina Aquino Blanquera Marmol (Songwriter)

This site documents that work across writing, music, and real-world rebuilding.

Provenance & Progression

2008–2013 · Learning to publish

Started publishing online during the early blogging era, experimenting with writing, technology, and personal essays. Learned how ideas travel, stick, and compound.

2010–2020 · Creative output & range

Released music under the name HeyRJ, spanning acoustic covers and original work. Explored songwriting as emotional storytelling and prose set to music.

2018–2021 · Audience & systems

Built and ran monetized digital projects, learning firsthand how platforms, algorithms, and audiences behave — and where they break.

2022–2024 · Constraint & rebuilding

Documented real-world rebuilding under financial and systemic pressure. Shifted focus from output volume to clarity, structure, and decision-making under constraint.

2025–present · Synthesis

Bringing everything together: music, writing, lived systems, and clarity. Current work includes a debut album of original songs and a book focused on rebuilding and sense-making.

Connect & Official Projects

Cecilia Regina Marmol is a practitioner-led author and musician based in the Philippines. You can find her work across these official platforms:

● About Me
Cecilia Regina Aquino Blanquera Marmol aka RJ Marmol profile picture

I’m RJ Marmol — writer, musician, and independent creator based in Manila.

I write songs, essays, and books about the messy overlap between money, overwhelm, creativity, identity, and rebuilding. Much of my work circles around what happens when life stops feeling manageable — and how we try to think clearly, make decisions, and keep moving anyway.

I’m also the author of Rebuilding Under Debt: Thinking Clearly When Everything Is a Blur, a nonfiction book published under Steady Hand Press. The paperback edition is listed under my full publishing name, Cecilia Regina Aquino Blanquera.

On the music side, I release work as HeyRJ. On the writing side, this site is where I gather my books, essays, notes, and whatever I’m building next.

Music

HeyRJ is my sonic soul project. I create raw, minimalist-style and deeply personal music interpretations that feel like a late-night conversation with your truest self.

By blending lo-fi acoustic textures with poetic honesty, my work explores love, loss, grief, healing, and the quiet in-betweens of life. Each song is a letter — a journal entry — a gentle companion for when the world feels too loud or too quiet.

While my catalogue began with intimate cover renditions, my work is increasingly being shaped by original writing, drawing from years of poems, lived questions, and emotional survival.

“Stuck Home Syndrome” released on March 20, 2026 is my first original 20-track album written during a period when time felt compressed and days began to blur into each other. The songs came from sitting with thoughts that had nowhere else to go — unfiltered, repetitive, and sometimes uncomfortable. It’s a concept album that isn’t built around singles or polish. It’s closer to a continuous inner monologue, recorded with minimal production and very little ornamentation and meant to be listened to as one cohesive body of work. The goal wasn’t to resolve anything, only to document how it felt while it was happening.

On May 29, 2026 I released new original singles – “Rapturous”, “Uh Huh”, “Look At You”, “All That” and “Blew Print”. I continue to release both original and cover songs and intend to so for as long as I can so check back every once in a while — you might. just find something you’ll like.

For business inquiries relating to music, email me at: heyrjmusic[at]gmail[dot]com or my personal email at: rjmarmol[at]gmail[dot]com.

Books

Rebuilding Under Debt: Thinking Clearly When Everything Is a Blur

A nonfiction book about what debt does to the mind — and how to begin functioning again when financial stress has made everything feel blurred, urgent, and overwhelming.

Rather than treating debt only as a financial math problem, the book explores the emotional and cognitive realities of financial distress: shame, decision fatigue, avoidance, panic, relationship strain, and the difficulty of making sound decisions while mentally depleted.

Published under Steady Hand Press. It’s available worldwide in ebook and paperback formats on Amazon. Bookstores and libraries can also be order it wholesale via Ingram.

Contact

For book-related inquiries, media requests, bookstore questions, or discussion-group invitations, you can reach me through the contact page on this site or send me an email to rjmarmol[at]gmail[dot]com or hello[at]steadyhandpress.com

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