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July 27, 2014
While you were out: World Cup Hook Up
So last week I finished something I’ve been working on for a couple of months (sign up for the mailing list to find out what this is!) and I needed to decompress, so I thought, hmm, the World Cup’s just ended, I should write something about it, no?
This is what I ended up with: World Cup Hook Up.
It's a free novelette on Wattpad, with five chapters plus an epilogue and an Author's Note in case you were curious about what World Cup happenings inspired the story (and why it's not fanfic.) At the...
July 17, 2014
Adventures in copyright
Mina V. Esguerra has this handy guide up on Wattpad, Advice for Writers, that I think any writer, published or not, mainstream or indie, should read. She’s posted a lot about copyright both on Wattpad and on her Facebook account, and a lot of it makes sense. Lots of young writers being approached by mainstream publishers have questions on copyright too, so I wanted to share my experience and what I’ve learned.
My first chick lit book was published by a mainstream published in 2006. I was just...
June 26, 2014
All This Wanting
First of let me just say how much I love that elegantly understated cover and that feels-inducing title!
Yup, “All This Wanting,” an anthology of New Adult short stories, is out now on Buqo! You can get the book by clicking here. If I havent’t clued you in about Buqo before, it’s a cool app that lets you read ebooks, Summit magazines and more right on your mobile or tablet. The great thing about it is the excellent price point – All This Wanting goes for P45, and if you’re on Android you can u...
June 8, 2014
Content Development: The Blind Spot
The Blind Spot
The Blind Spot: Uncover the Not-So-Hidden Truths of Business Success by Dave Almarinez.
Book Description:What’s the secret to success? In this book, entrepreneur and philanthropist Dave Almarinez picks apart the myths that once held him back from financial freedom, and introduces actionable exercises and discussion points to help you get past your own “blind spot.”
Read on and find out how he was able to overcome his own humble beginnings and start successful businesses that provi...
June 7, 2014
Lots of balls in the air
Image from amazingcircusworkshops.co.uk
You know the feeling of juggling too many things at the same time, and the stress of keeping it all in the air, so you need to drop a few things so that you don’t go crazy?
Yeah, this blog’s one of them, and I’m sorry.
I’ve been feeling blue lately and it’s this weird blueness (laladidada) of finishing something cool and the “what’s next? I need to maximize the results of this thing. I need to keep pushing it!” pressure that comes right after. That and my...
April 15, 2014
The Writer Tag: Survey for Writers
Tagged by Mina!
1. What type of writing do you do?
Fiction, feature writing, essays, non-fiction too. I’ve written novellas, magazine articles, even a how-to book or two.
2. What genres and/or topics do you write about?
Fiction-wise, I write about women. There’s romance in there, but I’m mainly interested in how my female characters develop. I’ve also written urban horror and non-genre short fiction.
3. How long have you been writing?
For an audience? 14 years. For myself, since Istarted keeping a...
April 3, 2014
MOVING to my own place!!
Starting today April 3, 2014 you can find me over at my very own domain, katrinaramosatienza.com! That's the screenshot up there -- isn't it smashing?? Go on over there for news, blog posts and my work portfolio. Many thanks to the super awesome Tania Arpa for walking me through the whole scary process (lol) and doing all the work actually! Thanks for the gorgeous site!
March 7, 2014
Impulse control
The reason for my longer than usual hiatus is (well, a bunch of things, really, including something at work that involved learning how to analyze box plots and control charts and using the words stable and capable in a totally non-romcom leading man context) that I joined this thing called Buqo Steamy Reads. The awesome Mina V. Esguerra led the charge on this class. Basically we had five weeks to come up with an adult romance novella. Amazingly, around 23 w...
January 6, 2014
Spark I: The Summer I Summoned Luck (and some behind the scenes photos)
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A little background
As Mina explained in the intro note, my family is from Bacolod -- Cadiz City on the northern part of Negros Occidental, to be exact. As a kid I spent my summers in our ancestral house there, and as it's a super old place with lots of history -- built in the 1930s, it was used as a garrison by the Japanese during the war. No one will tell me what went on there during the Occupation (maybe no one knows), but...
January 2, 2014
2013, you’ve been a good year!
And just like that, it's a whole new year! Makes me all giddy and reflective for the year that was. 2013 was awesome for my muse:
Published my first independent novella, Well Played.
Overcame (slightly) my fear of public speaking and shared my love of, respectively: writing and Jane Austen at the Eureka Seminar and the Filipino ReaderCon.
Met other awesome indie writers at the ReaderCon!
Tried out other ways to get my writing out there: Wattpad, Smashwords, Kobo and SOON to an Apple device near y...
