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    Daily Grind #12: Donuts

    June 21, 2018 - By 

    Hello winter sun. Konnichiwa 7 o’clock. Come out but wrap up, baby it’s cold outside. You have places to go and no one you know. Your steps are dots and lines on a moving map. Make sure you can retrace them. Only you can know the way back, and your hands are cold. ‘I have donuts to find today,’ you say. ‘Old clothes to try, art to touch.’ The cafe is hidden among crooked paths, wandering men and weathered streets. But you find it. You settle in. The coffee is ok, the song they’re playing is better. It’s just the…

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    Second Wave Summer

    June 15, 2018 - By 

    As of this writing, our second summer anthology Second Wave Summer has been out in the bookish universe for 29 days (woohoo). I talk about this in the Author’s Note, how as each book is special in its own space, this one is memorable mostly because it wasn’t supposed to be here. After Summer Crush, Tara, Six and I ~might~ have been talking about doing something together again (or we could be only eating ube cheesecake, I dunno), but it wasn’t supposed to be a Summer Crush 2. But at the time, April was coming up–the top month of the…

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    My #romanceclass Origins Story

    March 18, 2018 - By 

    #romanceclass head of PR and Marketing Chachic (lol but true) is doing this really fun thing on her blog she calls romanceclass Origins, where people from the community get to share how they found this safe and encouraging creative space. She was so kind to think of me and feature my story. See how I came out of nowhere apparently 😀   1. How did you discover #romanceclass? I had a book and no idea what to do with it. I’ve tried querying international agents and had a couple of polite rejections and a lot of ignored emails. The more I…

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    Daily Grind #11: From Now On

    March 3, 2018 - By 

    There’s a lot you can say in two and a half hours. You can say ‘I miss you. I can’t believe you’re gone.’ You can ask all your questions. ‘How could you why didn’t you WHY where the fuck was I?’ You can make statements. Promises. Say that you’re letting go and holding on and for today they mean the same thing. Say you’ll keep going as best you can while keeping love close. Never lost, always warm, around. Say that grief is an awning window and the wind tears it open some days but when it does, won’t you…

  • Life and Lemons - Writing Now

    2017 Gratitude: In Books

    December 31, 2017 - By 

    As of end-of-year 2017, I have written and published the following books (in chronological order, so no book gets hurt because of course books have feelings): Blossom Among Flowers (YA romance) – July 18, 2015. Japanese high school kids. Popular, seemingly cold boy genius grudgingly tutors headstrong yet head-in-the-clouds manga fangirl. Jdorama feels. I wrote it because I loveloveloved Hana Yori Dango and couldn’t get over how Rui didn’t get Makino when they’re obviously soulmates.     Songs of Our Breakup (New Adult romance/Playlist #1) – August 22, 2015. First book set in the Philippines, with Filipino characters. Band boy…

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    Daily Grind #10: #ChokieHazelKnot

    November 28, 2017 - By 

    There is a light so blinding that it takes what it shouldn’t and leaves me with burns on my skin, angry lashes on the ground, trenches on the earth, ashes in its wake. Pieces of my heart left shattered and broken, my soul left in deep shadow. And then there is you. You are a star, bright and warm. Like the sun at dawn, that haunting time when its rays pierces the clouds and chases the night away. When its heat hovers over the earth, warm and loving in its embrace, its light making prisms out of dewfalls, touching tears…