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    Cover Reveal: Waiting in the Wings by Tara Frejas

    New book alert! Tara Frejas has a new book out and yay check out that gorgeous cover. Synopsis below too to get you more hyped up for this release. *** Genre: Romance / NA / Contemporary Release Date: February 21, 2017 Book Cover Design by: Miles Tan Synopsis: At twenty-three, theatre actress Erin Javier has yet to fall in love or kiss a boy offstage and away from the klieg lights. She’s the perfect leading lady—whose heart men would fight for, win, and protect—unfortunately, only until the curtains fell and the lights went down. In real life, Erin’s a certified…

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    2016 – The Bookish Year That Was

    It feels good to do this again, because it tells me that 2015 was not a fluke or a very vivid daydream, but was something that really happened and led to more things in 2016, writing and publishing-wise. In 2016, I: Published two books, Songs to Get Over You (February 2016) and Songs to Make You Stay (October 2016) Wrote two books, Songs to Make You Stay and SYCBT Put my books up on Createspace for paperbacks to be available internationally. Well, all except the Shinta book. I shall get to that. View this post on Instagram   Wrote a…

  • Life and Lemons - Writing Now

    2016 Gratitude

    The tougher the year, the more important it is to look for the good things, because they are all there. In red letter dates and normal dates, in moments and in people. Ines has been reminding me to write down my 2016 gratitude, partly because she knows she’ll be in it, but also because she’s right. Remembering and taking time to be grateful is important, even more so now. I am grateful for family. For fights over unwashed dishes and barrel-bolted doors, and un-knotted garbage bags and missed curfews. (Curfews! Curfews, still, mother??) Because these mean I have sisters and…

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    Christmas Feelings and A Dancing Idol

    Well, at least Shinta Mori is supposed to look like he is dancing, as required by his contract, on top of other silly, festive things like a fried chicken commercial and a variety show appearance with a cute actress. It was all colors of fun and funny; a rising Japanese actor like him has little to complain about. But he can’t wait to get through all these and fly to Manila to spend Christmas with his mother. And when a friend blurts out a careless little observation about the girl Shinta can’t stop thinking about, it was all he could…

  • Music Dance and Lyrics - Writing Now

    Soundtrack to Make You Stay

    This playlist for Songs to Make You Stay is a mixture of music I listened to between writing (cos I need silence to write. Please don’t turn Brooklyn Nine-Nine on now, sister, have mercy), music I imagined blaring out of the speakers at Commute Bar between sets, and in Doozy Book Cafe and Bar on that first Gig Night. Bulding this playlist was extra fun because a lot of these songs were new to me, some of which I won’t even normally listen to. And it’s fun finding new music to like. It’s one of the best surprises. So here, enjoy…