That means it's Mother Mary's birthday. :) I know this will come across as weird for some, considering how "sexy" my books are, but I'm actually pretty devout - not the OMG-I-can't-ever-miss-mass type, but I take my devotion seriously. I never blame God about anything that happens to my life, I always remember to pray - stuff like that. So...just wanted to get that out - it's one reason why I write "religious horror". 

Now, September 8 is also GRANDPARENTS DAY! So if I have grandmothers (and grandfathers?) as readers, Happy Grandparents Day to you! :)

So...I've been struggling writing this one book - to the point that I erased two chapters two times. That means I wrote two new chapters, trashed them, wrote another 2 chapters, then trashed them again. =/ I've decided that maybe I'm too stressed to work so I'm resting for tonight and hopefully I'll do better tomorrow (Monday). Hopefully I will since it's always best to start the week right. 

Mmm...lastly, don't forget we have two giveaways still running. When Fangirls Lie is on its last ten hours - you get to chance to win either a $150 Amazon GC or a Kindle Fire HD. For the giveaway I'm co-sponsoring with Pepper Winters, you get to win either a free copy of Tears of Tess or a $50 Amazon GC. Not bad, right?

Well, that's it for now - just wanted to keep you all updated. And oh, here's the image quote CT Cover Creations made for NNL. Remember: sharing is sexy so do please share!

But first things first---

I'm really, really very happy with how well Park and Violet is doing! I know it's too early to tell, but even so I'm glad PNV reached this high in its first week. That's more than enough of me. As always, I was extremely - and I mean EXTREMELY - nervous about the reception of Park and Violet. You don't always have an European guy adopted by Asian parents as a hero, after all.

Reading the reviews, I was actually surprised that some of you still wanted more of these 2 - I thought I tidied things up nicely with their story - I did promise this was a standalone after all. But apparently, I didn't. =P lol. Ah well, I'll take it as a compliment that readers want more of these two.

Now... let's talk about those sequels.

The first thing I can promise you is that we'll have When Fangirls Cry out right after Suit and Fangs - no ifs and buts. After that, we should have the second / last part of Warning: Love Moderately. These were the two books you requested the most after all so we'll definitely get them out. 

After that ----

I'm pretty excited about My Secret Professor Boyfriend. I've never had a crush on any teacher - firstly, I studied in an all-girls high school, which meant we also had all-female professors. When I was in college, there wasn't anyone hot or young enough to crush on. BUT I do get to read a lot of steamy teacher-student romances (yes, definitely S.R.'s Gabriel's Inferno is one of my absolute favorites) so I do have a clue about how these, umm, encounters work. And this is a common plot device in manga, too, and you all know how much I love those. 

Another sequel in my mind is Dyvian's book in Evren. This one is probably the story I'm struggling the most with because I know where his story is going but the nitty-gritty details aren't that clear yet. All I know is that there's going to be a HUGE confrontation. If you read the excerpt for this then you'll know what that confrontation will be about!

Lastly, we have When I Moan - I'm really, really taking my time with this. I'm very detailed with my Good Girls with Secrets series, so it may be out late this year - maybe just in time for Christmas. Recently, I read the first three books of Terri Anne Browning's The Rocker series. I really, really love that series and I can't help but compare how they are with Em to how my three Grachyov brothers are to Seri. Of course, there are significant differences - my Grachyov brothers aren't quite as wild. They're more the intimidatingly sophisticated type - but I can promise you that they all will have their own stories. Maybe Fyodor, too, coz he's still really hot and he's just in his forties! Haha. 

I'm thinking of sharing a scene - not included in the book - just so you can all see how these three spoil Seri. :) Would you be interested in reading that? 

So...one of the greatest things I love about Kindle - and which has been making me think really hard about buying an actual Kindle (I'm just using the app for now) even though I already have an iPad (and still in love with it, Gen 1 it may be) is its SHARED NOTES AND HIGHLIGHTS feature.

I have to admit - it's cool when you see even just a few readers highlighting passages. Thought I'd share some of them in this post.

I have to admit - this one is my favorite as well.

This one is also my favorite. I'm glad others think so as well.

This one admittedly surprised me. I'm guessing - a lot of you are fans of Jayme?

How about you guys? Anything I missed that you want included here? :) Sometime next week, I'll post more quotes - from my other favorite books.

So it's almost 10 in the morning here. I just had about 3 or 4 hours of sleep but I'll do my best to catch a few more winks before resuming work. The thing is, that's going to be really hard because my publisher's email was such a GREAT and WONDERFUL surprise.

For those of you who don't know my three books - the last ones I will be releasing this year - are finally out in Amazon. They will be ONLY out in Amazon for the next 3 months I think since they're enrolled under Kindle Select. But anyway those books are -
Drawn
Death Loves Me Not
The Werewolf Prince and I

They are currently priced at $8.97 each - my publisher's decision, not mine. And frankly, I thought people would wait until maybe my publisher changes my mind about it, but hey, what do you know? People still went ahead and bought of it. Sooooo I am really, really happy that you think my stories are worth that much. =D Heh. I know some may say I shouldn't say something like that coz I'm devaluing my work and all that, but I also know how hard it is to earn money these days so it means A LOT to me that you're willing to shell out that much money to read my work. And again I have to emphasize, it means A LOT.

So to those who did buy it THANK YOU.  I would love to hear from you guys - if you don't care to review my work, that's totally fine - but I'd really love to hear from you guys just so I can thank you for reading my stories. :) Like any author, I feel uber blessed every time someone I don't know tells me he/she has read my book and - hopefully - liked it as well.

I will try to keep you posted on other stuff that's happening but for now it will be oyasumi for me.

Fingers crossed I wake up to MORE great news later on. Tee-hee.

P.S. If you find it weird that I keep on adding my name to my blog pos

Here we have yet another excerpt for Book 1 of a new series. But not to worry - it's a standalone book that won't leave you with any cliffhanger ending. You will get your happily (and sexy) ever after ending from this - I can promise you that.
Fingers crossed I get this out by December as well. :)
Let me know your thoughts about this!

I'm doing my *happy dance* right now.
Evren is currently #1 in Amazon's free ebooks under the Teens > Romance category. Oh, and it's also #20 in the Nonfiction category. Lol. Long story. I'ts riding at #112 right now in the Top 100 Free from Kindle (overall rankings) so here's to hoping I break into the Top 100 before the free promotion of my publisher ends.

I'm also happy to have read another 5-star review of Evren in Amazon. Her reaction was EXACTLY what I was aiming for. So if you know who you are - you made MY day, too.

For a lot of things.
Firstly, there's THIS site. It will soon have its own domain name. Yes, I know it's not that big a deal, but it's my first time to have a PAID domain for my site. I luuurv it, and I have my publisher to thank for it.

I'm also super excited for the release of My (Werewolf) Prince Commands. Oh, and yes those parentheses matter! Because he's an Alpha. This is my first adult romance. My first book (locally published) was more like a chick lit New Age kind of book. Evren is strictly PG-friendly YA. But this new one - it's going to be suuuuuuper sexy. Or at least I'd like to think it is and I'm hoping you'll think so, too. Anyway, I've already sent MWPC to my publisher and she says it will probably be out next Wednesday. Do watch out for it since the book - as far as I know - is slated to be available for FREE downloads for its FIRST FIVE DAYS. If you get to download it and you like it - TELL ME. Haha. I'm eager to hear more about how you feel about its characters because they're two of my favorite babies at the moment. :)

Thirdly is the book that follows MWPC. Yup, it's already been contracted. =D But that's all I can say for now.

Fourthly is yet another book that my publisher expressed interest in. It only has a working title as of now, but I can't share it - okay, make that I don't see the point in sharing it because the title was meant to be funny - if you have a Filipino sense of humor. But if you don't get Filipino humor then you probably won't appreciate my title. So yeah - by the time it gets published (fingers crossed) it will likely have a new title. Here's what I can say, though. It's another adult romance novel and a smooth-talkin Brit billionaire. That is ALL.

So I've been given the green light to share the excerpt for my first adult romance. You can find its blurb in the My Books page. And without further ado, the excerpt I am so excited to share with you -----

Domenico Moretti gazed down at the young woman walking swiftly towards his building, a twenty-floor skyscraper that was one of the innumerable properties he owned. He was – to put it simply – an extremely wealthy man, yet he knew instinctively that wouldn’t matter to her – just as she would likely be indifferent to the fact that he was one of the most eligible bachelors in the world. A hackneyed phrase to be sure, but one he also deserved. For four years straight he had his lawyers constantly send legal notices to People’s magazine to ensure that he would not make it to its list of Sexiest People Alive. His kind shunned such publicity, for more than the usual reasons.

Then again, Domenico had a feeling he would still have chosen her even if she happened to be a shameless golddigger. Pressed for time as he was, he would settle for just about any woman who could truly accept him for what he was, fur and all.

His eyes strayed back to the woman he was observing.

Her dark hair was so straight it didn’t curl inward to frame her face. It simply shot straight past her shoulders, revealing her ears, which were adorned by a pair of tiny silver hoops. Long lashes made her gray eyes more defined. They dominated her small, heart-shaped face and complemented her rosebud lips. Those lips begged to be kissed and Domenico knew sometime today, they would be. She wore a loose white blouse matched with a black skirt that flared wide from the waist, emphasizing its trimness even while it also served to conceal most of her magnificent legs away from sight.

He supposed she wanted to keep her curves hidden, but if she did then she had failed drastically. Loose as her blouse was, there was no denying how her bountiful breasts strained against its confines, pushing against the thin cotton, a tantalizing hint of her gloriously voluptuous body. Perhaps she wanted to imitate the toothpick figures most women had today? One day, he would tell her she had no reason to aspire for another woman’s figure. Her curves were a rare blessing – made to be shaped by a man’s hands.

His hands.

And nobody else’s.

Misty Wall.

He smiled at the irony – the oxymoron that made up her name. A misty wall? There must be a reason why she was named like that. His kind was superstitious, after all. For them, everything in this world had a meaning to it, a deeper purpose to fulfill.

“Mine,” he couldn’t help whispering, couldn’t help staking a claim.

She stopped just before entering the rotating glass doors of his lobby, raising a hand to shield her eyes from the sun. Then she looked up.

Her gaze was an arrow striking his heart, making him catch his breath, freezing him in place.

It was as if she was looking up at him, sensing his regard even though he was hundreds of feet above her, an unseen figure behind tinted windows. Even this far from her he could feel the tug of sexual attraction, a promise of the intense chemistry that would explode between them once they finally – irrevocably – cross paths.

It was a connection, he thought with satisfaction as she took one last look before disappearing into the building.

Domenico took that as a good omen for the wedding he had already planned, never mind if the bride he had so carefully chosen didn’t know about it yet.



Chapter One

8:12 AM

The crack on the northeast wall in the third floor of Building 2 in Lot A of the project site is five centimeters long. 1 centimeter is equivalent to 100 millimeters. A crack is---

A crack is exactly what’s going to happen to my head if I have to read one more word of the report. The rest of the words printed in a squint-inducing font size swims before my eyes. I take a deep breath.

I can do this, I can do this.

A crack may form a straight horizontal or vertical line on a surface. A crack may also have an irregular line. The crack on the northeast wall in the third floor of Building 2 in Lot A of the project site is believed to have been caused by aging. Aging is a process in which---

The pep talk doesn’t work on my eyelids, and they fall heavily close.

I shake myself awake, forcing my eyes to open. I am going to pry them open with screws if I have to.

God, I’m bored.