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    Author Interview: Ines Bautista-Yao

    November 22, 2015 - By 

    I’ve been catching up on Filipino indie authors recently and one of my favorites is the awesome hybrid author Ines Bautista-Yao. I’ve read one of her books, a sweet romance called Only A Kiss, and fell immediately in love with her fluid prose and her heart-warming take on romance. This week, Ines has launched her new book called Just a Little Bit of Love, which is a compilation of three short stories set in the world of Only A Kiss. I’ve read all of these stories and love them (but I love Ina and John’s story On the Sidelines the best, okay).…

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    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.…

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    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…

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    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 🙂…

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    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…

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    StrangeLit Happened and It was Awesome

    September 6, 2015 - By 

    Sometime this year, I decided I’m going to be an author. That was around Holy Week I think. Come to think of it, this is the second year in a row that my epiphanies came after Easter, and they felt so real and intense that I actually acted on them. It’s not a bad yearly habit to fall into. So there I was, trimming down an old manuscript and finishing another one, when I found out about StrangeLit, a paranormal/urban fantasy writing workshop sponsored by Buqo and Bronze Age Media. I thought, writing workshop? Yes please! Then, paranormal? I don’t know……