Jay E. Tria
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Jay E. Tria

  • Tourism

    Things to Do on a Fall Trip to Korea: Insadong, Bukchon Hanok Village

    November 18, 2015 - By 

    Yes, we were there just last year. But also, yes, it is quite impossible to see everything you want in an awesome country in only a few days. So we came back! We still booked our flights with AirAsia (the same airline we used last year) on almost the same time of year: end of fall, nearly winter, which is perfect walking around weather so long as you’re padded and layered properly. We booked the same accommodations, because we just LOVE Ji and the awesome folks at B My Guesthouse. And we revisited some of the places we weren’t able…

  • Writing Now

    Paperback Giveaway via Will Read for Feels: Blossom Among Flowers

    October 29, 2015 - By 

    Last month, I released print editions of my two books Blossom Among Flowers and Songs of Our Breakup. If you missed that exciting announcement, you can find the order form here. If you have your eyes on my manga-novel Blossom Among Flowers though, here, have a giveaway! <3 Click the link and join the raffle, brought to us by the sexy ladies of Will Read for Feels. Raffle is valid only until this Halloween Saturday, October 31. So come on, CLICK NOW. If you need further convincing, author and StrangeLit classmate Chi Rodriguez live tweeted as she read the book.…

  • Writing Now

    StrangeLit Book Launch: It Really Happened

    October 25, 2015 - By 

    It was a strange day. I went in there bringing people I knew, and I was welcomed by the sight of people I knew. But every few steps I would feel a sense of isolation, like I was an outsider looking in. As if I was a mere spectator in this festival, surrounded by merrymakers, doused in confetti, but not really someone who belonged. Then someone would call out my name, pull my elbow, flash me with the warmest of smiles, award me with the kindest of embraces. And I would remember that this is real. I’m here. And it’s my festival…

  • Book Review

    Review: Paper Planes Back Home by Tara Frejas

    October 25, 2015 - By 

    Paper Planes Back Home Published on February 21, 2015 by Tara Frejas  Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Fantasy, Romance Links: Goodreads | Amazon | Smashwords | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Apple iBooks SYNOPSIS: When Gianna wakes up on a cloud, she is disoriented yet fascinated. She thinks she’s only dreaming until she gets a storm of paper planes—”They’re thoughts of people who remember,” a man on another cloud tells her—each pleading for her not to leave. The man tells her these planes are the key to get out of there, and while she thinks it’s hard to believe, she decides everything is worth trying if it meant finding her way…

  • Writing Now

    Blossom Among Flowers: Cover 2.0 and Print Book!

    October 18, 2015 - By 

    My first book Blossom Among Flowers was plenty busy last month! It had its very first virtual blog tour thanks to the wonderful folks at Pinoy Book Tours, It received sweet, tears-in-my-eyes reviews from Anne of Will Read for Feels, Camelle of Home of a Book Lover,  and Claire of Coffeebookmom (thanks for giving my weird, manga novel a chance guys *group hug*) It had a new cover thanks to the magic of Tania Arpa. I loved the first cover, done by my awesome friend Sarah Magdasoc, but I thought I’d give it a makeover and experiment with something that looks more fun 🙂…

  • Writing Now

    Dear Majesty

    October 6, 2015 - By 

    When I read Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen I thought, this is it. This is how you’re supposed to write about death and loss. You write it with the kind of honesty that rips your heart open. No lies about how much it hurts, how you don’t care about what you eat, how you look, about anyone else around you, your thoughts solely on the person you lost forever. You walk around with the full knowledge of a gaping hole in your chest, and you revel in the pain. But you try. You try to pick yourself up. You fight the daily…