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Sneak peek: Icon of the Indecisive (Interim Goddess of Love #3)

I post screenshots of my book pages every now and then on Instagram. I should be sharing them here! This is a page from Icon of the Indecisive, the final book in the Interim Goddess of Love trilogy.

What's the plan, writer?

Yesterday was the last day of our Author at Once Creative Writing Short Course at iAcademy, and it was an amazing six weeks. My session was about publishing options, but it really was about, What's the plan, writer? Now that you went through a writing course, and I've told you how easy it is to get a book out, what's the plan? I asked them this at the beginning of my session, and then again

Summit Media's Chick Lit Fest 2013!

Excuse me if I squee just a little, because I've never done anything like this before...

Squee! Signing! Authors! Q&A! Giveaways! Snacks! August 20! Tuesday! 6-8 PM! Glorietta NBS!


 



Plus I actually do want to spend time with Ines, Marla and Chinggay because I never do and they're awesome. Drop by and say hi if you can! Zack and Lucas and Dante and Manolo and Anton and Quin and Diego and

Interview: Agay Llanera (author of Vintage Love)

Is this your first published book ever? What took you so long?
It's my first published novella! I have three published children's books, but I've always wanted to finish a long-ish story, and the romance novella was the perfect format to achieve this goal.What made you decide to finally write something and publish it?
Romance class with Mina Esguerra! I had actually submitted the story to a

Personal rules that I broke while writing Welcome to Envy Park

Welcome to Envy Park is my new chick lit/contemporary romance novella. I "let go" of it last night, meaning I wrote "The End", re-read some parts and made minor edits, and then said it was done. Done! This was written so differently from everything else I've come up with. I broke a lot of my own writing rules, such as:

1. Don't rush.
I wasn't even planning to write a contemporary romance this

Interview: Chrissie Peria (All's Fair in Blog and War)

Chrissie Peria was part of #romanceclass and Bronze Age Media's Author at Once. She wrote and published All's Fair in Blog and War this year and I got to ask her a few questions about it!



Cover art by Clarissa Ines

Is this your first published book ever? What took you so long?Yes,
All's Fair in Blog and War is my first book. And yes, it took a long
time from conceptualization to actually

NAmazing Adventure: Fairy Tale Fail

Welcome to my stop on the NAmazing Adventure, a blog hop featuring over 60 New Adult authors, and prize packs that include ARCs, signed books, gift cards, swag, and more! If you’re not sure what the NAmazing Adventure is, please click here to start from the beginning and read the complete rules on the NA Alley website. Now let’s get this journey on the road!

Welcome to the stop for Fairy Tale

Fairy Tale Fail: For the (hopeless) romantic

Hello! Are you on a quest? :)



Fairy Tale Fail
Of all the twenty-something women who are hopeless romantics, Ellie Manuel is more “hopeless” than “romantic.”Even after her Prince Charming broke up with her, she just won’t give up … because fairy tale heroines don’t live “happily ever after” right away, silly, they’re tested first!Determined to pass the test, she spends the next year restoring

Contemporary Month on My Pathway to Books

It's Contemporary Month over at My Pathway to Books and July 8 is my day! Kind of. :) Head on over to see excerpts of Love Your Frenemies and Fairy Tale Fail, and join the giveaway!

Well Played by Katrina Ramos Atienza

It's another happy day for followers of Filipino-authored contemporary romance! My friend and fellow "chick lit" author Katrina Ramos Atienza has a new book out, and guess what? It's a retelling of Pride and Prejudice. Yes, that one. Set in the present day, at a university that looks exactly like UP Los Banos.




Patrice Reyes is starting her junior year at the University and she's convinced