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Walking Through Time: How Beniardá Inspired My Time Travel Romance
As an author, inspiration can come from the most unexpected places. For me, the quiet beauty and timeless charm of a small village nestled in the mountains of Spain—Beniardá—became the…
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Indie Author’s Dilemma: Choosing the Perfect Book Cover
I thought my book cover was polished and ready to face the world after years of hard work. But no. After submitting it to BookSirens, a website that helps authors…
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The Unexpected Challenge of Designing My Latest Book Cover 📚
When I first self-published my Filipino book back in 2013, after eight years of sharing stories online, creating book covers came easily to me—partly thanks to working as a designer’s…
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📚 Win a Fabulous Bookish-Themed Gift Basket! 🎉😆
I shared this news with my newsletter subscribers five days ago. Then I thought good news should be spread out further. So here I am, posting this on my relatively…
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[Book Review] The Stand-In by Lily Chu
May is AANHPI Heritage Month, so I decided to read many Asian works. I’d really love to feature an indie book, to be honest, but I settled for “The Stand-In”…
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It’s a crappy crappy time
First, thank you for reading my blog. Sorry to those I ghosted after my last post. You commented but I didn’t respond. What can I say? Life happens and it’s…
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A horrible restart or just a dying blog?
I read a goodbye post from Rob, at Friends Without Border, a week ago, and it still pops in my head now and then. The post hit me hard. Rob…
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April Fool’s Girl
This was supposed to be an April fools day post, but my day and night got twisted so I missed my chance. But I really want to share this poem,…
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Micro Moments: First micro-fiction of the year
Inspiration just seems to be nowhere to be found lately. Back when I was just started writing fiction, I surprise my group (now disbanded and also nowhere to be found)…
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You First. Others comes next.
I hit rock bottom yesterday… it’s probably one of those Sunday blues things. I snapped at my husband and disappointed my son—who wanted to spend family time outside. I could…
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7 reasons I’m rebranding my blog
If you’re a returning reader and are wondering if you’re in the right blog, then you probably are. This is Jessica E. Larsen’s blog, also known as Jessie Winterspring. If…
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An abandon cat adopted me!
I know it’s September, but meet August. Until 3 days ago (Sept. 7) this young cat lived in the street. He came strolling through my door when I was at…