Mina V. Esguerra's Blog, page 62

What would Ellie wear? (office romantic)

Ellie Manuel (of Fairy Tale Fail), styled by Katrina Ramos Atienza.

I guess I never thought that much about it before, but the romance, the practical but girly gear, it all makes sense. How did you imagine Ellie?






Ellie by kratienza featuring summer dresses



Paul Smith summer dress, $545
Dries Van Noten longsleeve shirt, £420
CALYPSO ST BARTH long shirt, $225
Pleated skirt, $50
Stuart

Pajamas Tip: Become an ebook retailer affiliate

Another way to earn while in pajamas. Or your choice of sleepwear.

There's a column in one of my ebook sales reports that I always see, but never really thought about: Affiliate Sales.

Smashwords, the incredibly helpful publishing/distribution platform for ebooks (I use them for all of my independently-published books), also offers their members to option to become an affiliate. Meaning anyone

The Lam-Ang Experiment

Not sure how many couples do this, but you know what my husband and I talk about while stuck in Makati traffic? Stories. Novels, short stories, screenplays, you name it. They're always in the idea stage, and sometimes they can get wildly impractical and crazy.

For example, the idea of retelling Filipino epic poem "Biag ni Lam-ang" as a sci-fi graphic novel. My husband Mike has a thousand and one

Girl next door

Source: chictopia.com via Mina on PinterestH is my oldest friend. And by that, I mean the friend I've known the longest. We met when we were four (but on the year we turned five) and were neighbors, playmates, classmates, schoolbusmates. Eventually we went to different schools so even though we lived next door to each other for years, we barely saw each other. Then we ended up at the same office

New look and layout for the blog

So the blog looks more fun now, yay!

Layout change
I retired the old template and decided to go with a standard one from Blogger's selection. Didn't need to really sit down and customize it, just needed for it to be pretty. Red was pretty enough.

Tabs!
The blog, which is where I dump info about my books, writing, and other stuff (maybe pie, as the tag above says), is still the main focus of the

What would Kimmy wear? (Work to evening)

Kimmy on a workday (and maybe cocktails after). Put together by the fabulous Katrina Ramos Atienza using Polyvore.


Kimmy by kratienza featuring yellow gold jewelryAlexon black top
£32 - debenhams.com
Moschino Cheap Chic tux jacket
£665 - harveynichols.com
Alberta Ferretti slim skirt
$470 - stylebop.com
McQ by Alexander McQueen royal blue pumps
$421 - coggles.com
ASOS clutch handbag
$107 - 

The traveling twentysomething

Source: google.com via Mina on Pinterest
As much as I claim that I am not much like my novellas' characters, I did, like Ellie Manuel of Fairy Tale Fail, spend much of my money on travel. And the rest of my time thinking about it. Like her, I had to save up for these trips too, on a junior employee's salary at that. It's why my early trips were all on a budget, but those can be super satisfying,

What I worry about

Last week, I met a friend of book blogger Chachic. Let's call him O. O and I talked about books for one of his school projects. He was kind enough to send me the draft of what he plans to submit to his teacher, and I found a bit there that I'd like to share.

Here it is, with some editing on my part.


When I was starting out, I would ask myself, how can I write something that a publisher would

I spend more money on milk tea than publishing

In January, I was invited by a group of writers to speak about my experience with digital publishing. It was a great afternoon, one that I should recap in more detail here. But first, I wanted to write this post because I have to apologize -- I gave an inaccurate answer to one of the questions asked during the session.



The talk I gave covered my "experiment" publishing Fairy Tale Fail, from

No Strings Attached, now on Amazon!

Guess which one of my books now has a shiny new Kindle edition?







OK, you don't actually have to guess. No Strings Attached, about Carla and Dante and their lack of strings, is now available on Amazon for $3.99 US, $5.99 Asia-Pacific. 



Off to update the Where to Find My Books page...