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Casting Well Played, Pinoy indie style

OK this is something just for fun. My friend Jao works in advertising and, soon as he finished Well Played, immediately began casting the "movie version." Here's his dream cast:
Jasmine Curtis as PatriceFelix Roco as PaulPaul Montecillo as Lars
What do you think?? I think Felix Roco is a great touch! Haven't seen Paul Montecillo in anything yet but he does have that bad boy charm. And Jasmine is just gorgeous. What about you, who would YOU cast? Let's play!

Guest Post: Your Muse is Whispering: Stop Reading This

Toffer Tiña was a participant at the 2013 Eureka Seminar Series and one of the more active participants during The Unquiet Muse talk. He sent me this essay and I've reprinted this here with his permission. Thanks Toffer!

Your Muse is Whispering: Stop Reading This.
Last Saturday, I had met two incredible and interesting women. First is Katrina Ramos-Atienza, one of the products of the BA Communication Arts program, or simply BACA program in UPLB. She is a writer of chick lit yet in that day, I t...

The Unquiet Muse at the 2013 Eureka Seminar Series, UPLB

Last Saturday I had the great honor to speak at the Eureka Seminar Series at UPLB, organized by my college org, the UPLB Com Arts Society. I talked about spurring creativity and called my talk The Unquiet Muse.
Who is your muse?It was a fun experience that I truly enjoyed! There were about 100 attendees throughout the the day (aside from my talk on creative writing, we had seminars on broadcasting from GMA News reporter Oscar Oida, journalism from Philippine Star columnist Bum Tenorio, and adv...

You Caught Me On A Good Day (Fiction)

A gift from me to you: a contemporary romance "short" story, You Caught Me On A Good Day. Read it for free on Wattpad!



This is a thank you gift to everyone who tweeted, blogged, joined, read or observed the All's Fair in Blog & War + Well Played blog tour. I really enjoyed myself and I hope you did too! Now get cozy with this story and let me know what you think. ;-)

Talking about writing fiction at the Eureka seminar, Sept. 7 2013

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I'm giving a talk at UPLB about jump-starting the creative process and holding on to your muse when writing fiction. Check it out!

Date: September 7, 2013 (Saturday)
Time: 9AM
Venue: NCAS Galleries 1 and 2, University of the Philippines at Los Baños
Fee: FREE!

There will also be other seminars on broadcasting, advertising and column-writing from noted UPLB alums such as GMA reporter Oscar Oida, Philippine Star columnist Bum Tenorio and Well Played cover designer and graphic artist...

Calling all book bloggers!

You can sign up for the Well Played + All is Fair in Blog and War book tour until Friday, August 23 to get an ebook copy of Well Played for review! Click here to sign up.

The Well Played Blog Tour, Sept. 1-7 2013

It's happening! The Well Played + All is Fair in Blog & War Blog Tour is happening from September 1-7, 2013 thanks to the awesome Dia at Book Junkie Blog Tours. Well Played will be making appearances in various blogs and I'll be linking to them here (there and everywhere!) Sign up now to join the fun and maybe even get some swag :)

Buy Well Played any way you like it

Buy Well Played by Katrina Ramos Atienza

Patrice Reyes is starting her junior year at the University and she's convinced it's going to be the best semester ever. For starters, it looks like this is the year her team will win the regional football (soccer, for you Yanks) championships. Her subjects are looking good, and there's even a chance she might finally get somewhere with her rock star crush. But a new classmate—arrogant, cold math nerd—is seriously throwing off her groove. Will she...

Love and football

As a writer, it's inevitable to get asked the question on your book: is this based on me? Or, quite more often, this is YOU right?

That's particularly troublesome when you and your heroine / protagonist share a hobby. For me and Patrice, the protagonist of Well Played, that hobby just happens to be football.
In action last February, playing for the company football team at a corporate tournamentThe question I get is since I play football and Patrice plays football and Patrice and I both to...

Getting by with a little help from my friends

I quipped that indie publishing is like that saying, "it takes a village to raise a child." Without the resources of traditional publishing, an author has to figure out all the components that make up a book. Yes, surprisingly, it's not just about writing (if you write it, they will read) -- there's art, editing and marketing to think about!

Thankfully there are a lot of resources for indie writers now, such as Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing and Smashwords, to help get works out. And f...