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Takeshi Hinata

  • Writing Now

    Freebie Alert! Blossom Among Flowers Turns One

    July 18, 2016 - By 

    It is exactly one year to the day since I released my first ever book baby into the wild. ONE YEAR! I can’t believe it’s been that long since this series of rambling posts (1 2 3 4). Heh. I can’t help feeling sentimental and nostalgic. I was very afraid to even think of self-publishing then. A few years earlier I’d tried the traditional route (at the time, the only route I knew) of sending query letters to international agents. I received polite rejection emails if I was lucky, but for the most part I was ignored. Can’t say I didn’t expect…

  • Life and Lemons - Writing Now

    The Year I Didn’t Turn 30

    January 1, 2016 - By 

    I realize this is my second 2015 year-end post, and there will be some overlapping highlights. I guess the double-post of sorts is testament to how remarkable last year had been. And I did turn 30, technically. But going into 2015 I thought that’s all this year will be: the one when I turned another decade, wherein I would embark in a more serious hunt for anti-aging implements that worked, and I would solemnly swear that I’d watch what I eat, and that I would figure out if I like my day job enough. But I think it’s that fear exactly, of…

  • 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

    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 🙂…

  • Music Dance and Lyrics - Writing Now

    The Flower Boy Soundtrack

    July 22, 2015 - By 

    I don’t normally play music when I write. I need silence. I need a vacuum. I need my mother to stop talking to me about errands and my cat to stop purring on my lap (though that’s really very sweet of the cat. I’m sorry, I take that back). When I get stuck though, I turn to music. And usually, the music plays in my head. Sans iTunes, YouTube or Spotify. For Blossom Among Flowers, I was writing a story set in Japan about bishounen–beautiful boys or flower boys, and the spunky, manga-addicted, high school girl caught between them. So it made…

  • Writing Now

    This Week, I Gave Birth to a Book

    July 22, 2015 - By 

    Really, I did! Well I guess technically I’ve had Blossom Among Flowers with me for almost a decade now, but this is the moment in time, the third week of July 2015 (on the 18th day according to Amazon), that my baby is finally out. She can actually mingle with the world now, you know? I realize the child-bearing comparisons are a bit weird. But I’m just very excited. I know there’s still a lot for me to do. You don’t know me, or my writing. Nobody’s probably reading this today. But for now, on the third week of July…