tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-339359402024-03-05T16:35:14.244+08:00Ficsationfixated on fictiondementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.comBlogger270125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-31272983694570216682017-04-11T12:38:00.001+08:002017-04-11T12:38:52.445+08:00Talking Prom Di Heart
When Ines Bautista-Yao and I first thought of writing an anthology set outside Metro Manila, we were excited. We're both probinsyanas at heart, and it wasn't long before we gathered other authors who, like us, were more than willing to write a short story set in the province.
My short story "Drummer Boy" is set in Aklan, which I consider my second home. My parents are both from Aklan, and my dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-89852821135918423712017-02-03T18:13:00.000+08:002017-02-03T18:13:19.662+08:00#romanceclass in FebruaryIt's not surprising that February is a busy month for romance writers. What's unusual for me is that #romanceclass seems to be fully booked for the entire month! There are so many interesting events and activities for Filipino romance readers and writers, so I need to post them here so I don't forget myself:
On Feb 11, #romanceclass will be at Ayala Museum in Makati with live readings, a blind dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-90644342862471234202017-01-10T23:07:00.000+08:002017-01-31T23:15:11.765+08:002016 Book ListJust going to dump it all here. This list does NOT contain rereads:
1. The Mermaid's Sister (Carrie Anne Noble)
2. Ethics and Infinity (Emmanuel Levinas)
3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens Novelization (Alan Dean Foster)
4. Shadow and Bone (Leigh Bardugo)
5. My Reckless Valentine (Olivia Dade)
6. Tatooine Ghost (Troy Denning)
7. Proposal - The Mediator (Meg Cabot)
8. Remembrance - The Mediator (Megdementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-43358565140787918552015-09-10T10:00:00.000+08:002015-09-10T10:00:01.088+08:00PinoyWriMos: JustWritePH For the Feels Excerpts (2/2)
The #JustWritePH workshop, which ran from July 1 to August 8, 2015, challenged participants to write a story and prepare it for publication in a little under 6 weeks. Tips and lessons were delivered online & in person, and now these stories are available in bundles on online e-book shop Buqo.
Title: For the Feels
Authors: Lee Miyaki (Kim Derla), Maria Criselda Santos, iamloid, and Kristine dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-6165920324599958902015-09-10T09:00:00.000+08:002015-09-10T09:00:00.728+08:00PinoyWriMos: JustWritePH For the Feels Excerpts (1/2)
The #JustWritePH workshop, which ran from July 1 to August 8, 2015, challenged participants to write a story and prepare it for publication in a little under 6 weeks. Tips and lessons were delivered online & in person, and now these stories are available in bundles on online e-book shop Buqo.
Title: For the Feels
Authors: Lee Miyaki (Kim Derla), Maria Criselda Santos, iamloid, and Kristine dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-77963786173962420122015-09-10T08:00:00.000+08:002015-09-10T08:00:16.357+08:00PinoyWriMos: JustWritePH For the Feels Blog Tour + Giveaway
The #JustWritePH workshop, which ran from July 1 to August 8, 2015, challenged participants to write a story and prepare it for publication in a little under 6 weeks. Tips and lessons were delivered online & in person, and now these stories are available in bundles on online e-book shop Buqo.
Title: For the Feels
Authors: Lee Miyaki (Kim Derla), Maria Criselda Santos, iamloid, and Kristine dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-42731687665186736772015-01-24T07:00:00.000+08:002015-01-24T07:00:03.501+08:00Cities Blog Tour + Giveaway
As an SFF reader and writer, I was really excited about the premise of Cities. It reminded me a bit of Margaret Atwood's Happy Endings and Kasie West's Pivot Point series. The novella is brimming with possibilities, and I'd love to see more books like this in the market.
About the Book:
Celia has dreams.
She dreams of going to Seoul for a scholarship she never took, of leaving everything dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-40508793473854887542014-10-26T13:12:00.002+08:002015-09-09T19:31:13.550+08:00The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios JapanI don't usually blog about my travels in detail but I received a bunch of questions about my recent trip to Universal Studios Japan's The Wizarding World of Harry Potter that I decided to just write about it here.
Some quick details: My friends and I stayed at a small hotel along both Osaka's Chuo and Sennichimae lines, which was just a quick ride to Universal City. We headed to the JR Osaka dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-25909076756597536572014-10-02T01:33:00.000+08:002014-10-02T01:33:07.121+08:00The Kitchen When It Sizzles Blog Tour + Giveaway
Title: The Kitchen When It Sizzles
Author: Chrissie Peria
Date of Publication: August 16, 2014
About the Book:
Olivia Nadal is an almost perfect girl with an almost perfect life. She has stunning good looks, an exciting job that pays well, men lining up to date her, and a homey little condo she calls her own. The only thing keeping her from perfection is her utter inability to cook.
Enter dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-50596439218462975932014-09-27T10:43:00.000+08:002014-09-27T10:47:57.880+08:00Weekend Prompt | Sept 27-28
After watching Rurouni Kenshin The Legend Ends and all the trip-planning that my friend Liv and I have been doing, I've noticed how many things and tidbits about Kyoto interest me. There's a place in particular that I want to visit but... never mind. We'll see how it works out when I post this week's fic. Happy weekend everyone!
dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-31829718639047381142014-09-24T10:11:00.000+08:002014-09-26T10:12:02.589+08:00Weekend Prompt #3 | The Lucky
The Lucky
When the phone rang, we thought we were the lucky ones.
Mother was already insisting that we pack even before the call was over. Carl and I both decided it was futile to bring our usual stuff, the ones that accompanied in sun and shadow, the ones that could still bring traces of the fallout with us. So we dug inside our deepest closets for old clothes and unearthed memories, a life dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-89615450268899591102014-09-19T21:59:00.000+08:002014-09-19T22:02:05.912+08:00Weekend Prompt | Sept 20-21Last week was a really busy week for me, which was why I was a few days behind with posting. Hoping to get some work in this weekend. But if you're not as busy as I am, please check out the 35th Manila International Book Fair at the SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia. I visited it during opening day with my students and came home with eight books (three for me), three magazines, and a treatise dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-57291331253820563482014-09-18T17:41:00.000+08:002014-09-18T18:20:11.103+08:00Weekend Prompt #2 | Noticed
Noticed
Masayuki keeps the end of his tie in his left pocket; keeping it company is the list of complaints that he has about Kashima. He takes great care not to let her see it--not that he has any difficulty expressing his displeasure at nearly everything she does.
#5. She flirts with every girl in sight.
Thankfully not Sakura or Seo, but maybe it's more to their credit than Kashima's. It dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-85959782342747602352014-09-12T23:19:00.000+08:002014-09-15T18:12:35.237+08:00Weekend Prompt | Sept 13-14I love anime and one of my latest faves is Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. Here's an interesting article to help explain my obsession.
Curiously, I'm more drawn to a minor pairing than the mine one, and it turns out I'm not the only one. This couple topped a recent poll as the readers' favorite pairing. I like how deceptively simple their relationship seems on the surface (she's the playboy school dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-3994482771258421922014-09-09T17:16:00.001+08:002014-09-09T20:44:31.370+08:00Weekend Prompt #1 | In the Company of Fish
In the Company of Fish
A flash of orange, and the fish swim away into the folds of the silken kimono. The merchant eyes his customer as he tucks the kimono out of sight, aware that while the man's interest has been baited, there is still the question of price between them.
"The sleeves of this furisode are exquisitely made," the customer concedes in a manner that the merchant would almost dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-40588873508243735862014-09-05T22:22:00.000+08:002014-09-05T22:22:00.491+08:00Weekend Prompt | Sept 6-7As a personal challenge, I'm going to start posting little prompts here and hope they help me write something before the weekend is over. I'm thinking tonight it'll be Jim Croce's Lover's Cross. My friend Ilyn tweeted the most beautiful part of the lyrics a few minutes ago and it reminded me how deftly a song can capture a specific experience:
'Cause baby, I can't hang upon no lover's cross fordementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-2465092707891895872014-06-27T19:21:00.000+08:002014-06-27T19:21:27.045+08:00Dressing for the HeatBecause Hot Like This takes place at a commercial shoot with a tropical resort and casino in the backdrop, we got excited over planning the dresses and outfits that the female characters would wear. Think of it as packing for a trip -- but without having to worry about whether a dress will fit us or not!
When planning our collaborations, Chrissie, Miles, and I usually set up a Google spreadsheetdementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-26001557293108561002014-06-25T14:28:00.003+08:002014-06-25T14:29:05.261+08:00Scribbled: Hot Like ThisLate last year, when my friends and co-#romanceclass authors Chrissie Peria and Miles Tan and I wrote a holiday short story called All I Want for Christmas, we already knew that we'd be writing a follow-up featuring the other characters. We initially planned a May release for Hot Like This but with scheduling things, we ended up releasing last June 21. Hey, it's still summer in the US and the dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-57220637076127738312014-06-24T00:30:00.000+08:002014-06-24T11:06:50.296+08:00Jenny Han in ManilaI was very excited when I heard that Jenny Han was coming to Manila. National Bookstore has been bringing in a lot of YA authors recently, but this was the first time that I was determined to show up. Loaded down with books, I trooped over to the book signing at National Bookstore Glorietta last Saturday, June 21.
Jenny Han in Manila
The Summer series marks one of the rare moments when my dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-65520774675912968412014-06-19T00:40:00.001+08:002014-06-19T00:40:07.668+08:00One Foot in Front of the OtherI would have loved to say that the reason I haven't been posting regularly is because I've been traveling, but the truth is I've just been preoccupied with a lot of other things. I've been a bad blogger. Still, my year has been dotted with some short trips here and there, proof that I've never really been one to stay put. Finally writing this post has been good for me. It was real. It happened. dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-1626122781791034582014-05-23T17:00:00.000+08:002014-05-23T17:00:29.656+08:00Heat of the Moment from Hot and Bothered Bundle: #BuqoSteamyReads Blog Tour + Giveaway
More #buqosteamyreads! When I first saw the list of titles and authors, I knew that I wanted to read EA Martelle's Heat of the Moment. From the cover alone, this promises to be a good one.
About the Book
She needs the diversion...
Noelle Sanchez is looking for a distraction from the pressure of organizing a company-
wide event and her recent heartbreak after a two-year relationship. She gets dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-86447899036037577922014-05-18T08:00:00.000+08:002014-05-18T08:00:00.431+08:00Whole Latte Love Blitz Blog Tour + Giveaway
Whole Latte Love
By Rachelle Ayala
Publication date: April 16th 2014
Genres: New Adult, Romance
About the Book
Investment banking intern Carina Chen doesn’t need any distractions—especially the sexy, guitar-playing barista she rooms with for the summer.
Free spirit Dylan Jewell appreciates the delightful universe of women who vie for his attention. His goal in life is to do good, make happy dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-48428454642222666282014-05-13T06:00:00.000+08:002014-05-13T10:22:46.837+08:00Boyfriend-Stealing Bitch from Passion Bundle: #BuqoSteamyReads Blog Tour + Giveaway
Early this year, author Mina V. Esguerra and Buqo came up with #buqosteamyreads, a writing workshop aimed to create mature short stories for readers 18 and older. Lots of authors came to play, resulting in five bundles of steamy goodness. One of them is Halina Cabrera's Boyfriend-Stealing Bitch:
About the Book
Jess Rodriguez always gets what she wants. That's why no one in her office has dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-30815301205878269322014-05-10T10:28:00.000+08:002014-05-10T10:28:00.358+08:00Kabanata Young Adult Writers' WorkshopOne way to promote a culture of reading among Filipino youth is to provide them with reading material that can capture their imagination and tell their stories. I started reading YA when I was young (Nancy Drew at seven; Elizabeth George Speare's The Witch at Blackbird Pond at nine) and the truth is, I've never really stopped. I still read a lot of YA. Unfortunately, a lot of that is foreign dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33935940.post-71981994459613062902014-05-07T18:36:00.001+08:002014-05-07T18:36:25.757+08:00Janus Silang Blog Tour Giveaway WinnersPosting the winners of the Janus Silang Blog Tour Giveaway. You may claim your prizes on May 10 (Sat) at the Adarna House showroom (109 Scout Fernandez cor. Scout Torillo Streets) or email Ms. Ergoe Tinio at ergoe@adarna.com.ph if you are unable to claim your prize by then.
The Janus Silang book tour kicks off on May 10, 3 pm at the Adarna House Showroom, where author Edgar Samar will give a dementedchrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819021458896570445noreply@blogger.com0