Armine Rhea Mendoza is one of the most prolific writers of contemporary Tagalog romance novels in the Philippines.
Using the pseudonym Camilla, which Mendoza adopted from a female warrior in the Iliad (see the Aeneid as well), Mendoza writes for Precious Heart Romances (PHR), the Tagalog pocketbooks brand published by Precious Pages Corporation since 1992.
She was a magazine writer and editor before writing popular romance novel in a full-time capacity.
[1] A productive romance-genre writer, Mendoza produces around thirty manuscripts annually.
Her career in romance novel writing was influenced and jump-started by an aunt, Nanay Binya.