T-Shirt Thursday!

It's t-shirt Thursday!

Woohoo, T-Shirt Thursdays are back! Rather, I finally made time to browse for graphic tees YAY. I haven’t been looking at tees for a while and I think it’s because I tell myself I need more girly stuff (read: dresses and nice blouses) and don’t need any more t-shirts. Not that I buy these things a lot, but looking at them and knowing I can’t or shouldn’t makes me cry. Hah. Anyway, I realized I can have more girly stuff AND more t-shirts, too. I just need to allocate my moolah carefully, right? AMIRITE? (Why do they spell it that way, by the way?)

Enough blabbering. On to the graphic tees!

Meow by Elena Arkhipova (Threadless): A single meow can mean so much more. Haha. “Feed me all the fishies in the world, human.”

Ghost Bulb by Luis Romero (Threadless): This is just adorable actually. Look at all the adorable ghost faces. Plus this shirt glows in the dark! Woooo scary.

Pocket Toothless by Tabners (Design by Humans): An itty bitty tiny Toothless in your pocket all day every day? Yes please.

Psychic Psychedelic Trippy Cat by Biotwist (Design By Humans): Really, who doesn’t love psychedelic trippy cats?? Kitty cats are luuuurve.

We Are Groot (Design By Humans): Seen the most awesomest movie yet? Don’t tell me that “We are Groot” scene didn’t bring tears to your eyes? Groot is the best evur. (Also, this lady is rockin’ gorgeous hair.)

Cleopatra by BrianMViveros (Design By Humans): This print. She is badass. I love this shirt just because. I love the blood red rose and the smoky eyes. The cigarette and the bullets not so much, but they do make this quite striking. I want eeeet.

The end. For now.

Spotlight & $100 Amazon Giveaway: I Can See You by Joss Landry

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I Can See You Blog Tour (Jul 28 – Aug 22)

I thought this book had an interesting story, that’s why I agreed to help out in the blog tour and host a guest post by the author. Check out the book and the guest post, and enter the tour-wide giveaway for a chance to win $100 Amazon Gift Card or $25 Amazon Gift Card.

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Blog Tour: Beyond The Pale (A Fantasy and Paranormal YA Anthology)

When I received the invite for this blog tour, I just couldn’t resist. A fantasy anthology of short stories by bestselling writers the likes of Jim Butcher and Kami Garcia? Hellsyeah.

Today we have a guest post, “Prose Lessons by the Pros,” by the editor Henry Herz. If you’re a writer or want to be one, you have got to read this post. It’s chockfull of helpful tips! Also, check out an excerpt from one of the stories, The Children of the Shark God by Peter S. Beagle.

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Interview with Fantasy Author, Melissa McPhail

Melissa McPhail is launching the new cover of her book Cephrael’s Hand, the first book in the A Pattern of Shadow and Light series. I read it last year and loved it! This week we’re celebrating the new cover reveal with guest posts and a giveaway.

Read on to know more about the new cover, as well as Melissa’s thoughts on cover art. Then enter the giveaway at the end of this post!

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Guest Post & Cover Reveal: Cephrael’s Hand by Melissa McPhail (Part 2)

So this week we’re celebrating the new cover reveal of Cephrael’s Hand by Melissa McPhail. I read this book last year and loved it so much, so I was more than happy to join this week’s celebration!

Yesterday, I featured one of Melissa’s guest post about world-building. Today I’m sharing her other post about the three must-read series for fantasy buffs. Read on to see the post below and check out the new cover of the book! And of course, enter the giveaway!

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Guest Post & Cover Reveal: Cephrael’s Hand by Melissa McPhail (Part 1)

I read Cephrael’s Hand by Melissa McPhail last year and I absolutely loved it! That’s why I’m happy to participate in the new cover reveal for the book. To celebrate, Melissa’s having a week-long blog event with a giveaway!

As part of the cover reveal, the author also wrote two posts – one about world-building and one on three fantasy series. Read one of the guest posts below and check out the new cover of the book! Don’t forget to also check out the giveaway. :)

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Music Monday: Bullet Dumas

Bullet-Dumas-headshotMan, I had this post drafted up months ago, but didn’t have (or make) time to finish it. Well, lookie, it’s finally up.

So, have I told you about this guy yet? Wait, I did. I wrote about this guy back in 2012 right after I saw him perform live for the first time. Well, guess what? He released his first EP a few months ago! Say it with me, YAYYYY.

Everytime I see this guy, one scene plays in my mind and it has nothing to do with music. Back in 2012, I went with Carpet Head and Team Pilipinas to Singapore for the Singapore Ultimate Open. I had with me Carpet Head’s fancy schmancy DSL camera with the paparazzi lens attached, this huge and super heavy long lens thing. During one of the games, Bullet executed an awesome Callaghan point and I failed to capture the moment with my big ass high tech camera! Big camera-woman fail on my end. I haven’t forgotten that.

Anyway, back to Monsieur Bullet and his music. His single Pssst!  has been on the airwaves for some time now. His music is also on iTunes, Amplify, Spotify, Soundcloud, and Bandcamp. Check check checkitout.

Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Soundcloud | Bandcamp | iTunes

Okay, I was going to leave you with a Soundcloud player of one of his songs, but I couldn’t figure out how to embed the thing. Never mind! Go to Soundcloud and listen to some of Bullet’s music for FREE!

This week’s pasta adventures. Or not.

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Can you eat pasta for lunch for four days in a row? Well, apparently I can.

So, we Filipinos love to eat rice in almost every meal, right? I’m home all day, left to my own devices, so sometimes I do cook rice and sometimes I don’t (usually when I’m too lazy to thaw something from the freezer). Anyway, we ran out of rice and didn’t have time to hit the supermarket. I really don’t get out much on weekdays ’cause I’m supposed to be workin’ at home like a good work-at-home person (hah!). Luckily, I bought a bag of penne the last time we were at the grocery store. Hurray.

I decided to make the easiest thing – and the only pasta thing – I know how to make: tuna pasta!

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The World’s Longest Chain of Literary Tattoos by Litographs

I wrote about this project recently and I really loved the whole concept. It involves things I obsess about – literature and tattoos. Plus it’s a project by a company that creates damn cool literature-inspired graphic tees, tote bags, and what not.

Litographs has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its World’s Longest Tattoo Chain project. The company has broken down the entire text of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland into 2,500 unique temporary tattoos. The goal is to get all these 2,500 literary tattoos on the skins of Kickstarter backers and then showcase the photos on Litographs’ tattoo gallery. It’s certainly a unique way of reading the classic novel – a book that, I’m ashamed to admit, I’ve never read before and I’ve had it on my Kindle app for ages.

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