A couple months had passed since I self-published my first novel. After four or five years of sleepless nights, up and downhill battle with writer's block, adventures and misadventures with editors and designers, the culmination or the actual birth held some promise. Yet even that, required way so much more planning or pre-conceived strategy, and … Continue reading Lessons I Learned from My First Indie-Published Novel
Sunsets at Puerto Galera book release
My ebook is going live in Kindle, Kobo and Nook tomorrow, July 2nd!! My paperback is now in Amazon.com. It's soon to come to iTunes, B&N.com, IndieBound and perhaps Books-A-Million. For Philippine paperback Amazon orders, I've heard of distribution via Book Depository, Abebooks, TBD, LBC, USA Goods and Wordery. I've never tried any of them … Continue reading Sunsets at Puerto Galera book release
Excerpts from Sunsets at Puerto Galera
So this book is coming out in about a week!!!!!!!!!!!!! While I haven't been online as much, these duck feet had been paddling so freaking hard beneath the waters to make this launch happen. 🙂 Between long nights, impossible schedule, work pressure, PR stuff and book cover issues, this momma is ready for some pineapple-clad … Continue reading Excerpts from Sunsets at Puerto Galera
Sunsets at Puerto Galera
Target release date is July 2, 2018!!! Book Blurb: Tuck the palm leaf aside, feel the warm powdery sands beneath your toes and step into Puerto Galera - a humble tropical paradise on one of the Philippine islands. Meet two of their locals, Lena and Chris, and dive right in to their on-and-off again … Continue reading Sunsets at Puerto Galera
Book Blurb
Pardon the long post, but I've been obsessing on my book blurb the past 24 hours. Here it is. Please feel free to comment, good or bad, violent or doting. I'll take anything. Feel free to PM me if you're more comfortable there. Thank you much! And Happy Easter!! Stay blessed! Gently tuck the palm … Continue reading Book Blurb
Inspirasyon at Distraksyon
I’ve never been so messed up lately. Well, I’ve been a mess since I remembered. But the thing with editing a book, writing a new one, starting a new day job, working on the social media and marketing platform of the existing book, looking for a book cover designer, looking for a proofreader and then … Continue reading Inspirasyon at Distraksyon
About Eclipse
I'll have to do further research as to who made this prose. But in the meantime, the eclipse reminded me of this beauty that I randomly came across with some months ago. It was too precious not to share. I only saw the partial eclipse, but it was pretty magical. The dark clouds helped me … Continue reading About Eclipse
Missing Pieces
My soul had not been complete A most tangled breath I take each time
Something Filipino
Because it's Philippines' Independence Day, I thought it might be timely to post a poem in my mother tongue. I wrote this years and years ago and I happen to stumble upon it again recently. A translation is at the bottom. Sayang Akala Ko Ito Na Masarap ang hangin sa dalampasigan Niliyo ako ng mga … Continue reading Something Filipino
Messy Chapters
Don't you just hate when you had thoughts an hour ago and you're scrambling to reimagine just exactly how it was supposed to flow either out of your mouth or pen? Another hour passes and it just wasn't going to come back. They could be a well-planned anecdote you were going to amuse your BFF with, or a funny … Continue reading Messy Chapters
Gem Cano 