Tara Tries To Write

Review | Sa Wakas, The Musical

February 14, 2017 No Comments

I’d been wanting to post a Sa Wakas review since its opening night, but time is rarely on my side lately, so that little thing got shoved into the backburner every single time. Now that the run is officially over (they closed last Sunday, February 12), I feel like I should at least try to articulate All The Feelings I felt watching the musical… while juggling today’s workload, that is.

Please note, however, that I am extremely biased–and while I will be trying my best to keep things objective, I can’t promise you a spazz-less, coherent review.

Blog Tours, The Writing Community

Blog Tour / Interview | Keep the Faith by Ana Tejano

February 9, 2017 No Comments

Happy Thursday, everyone! ^_^ On the blog today is an interview with author Ana Tejano about her book Keep the Faith, which is on tour (naks!) this week. I asked her about the challenges she face while writing her second book, her favorite character in Keep the Faith, and a fun, Valentine’s Day-related question about the book’s MC and LI.

But first, here’s what Keep the Faith is all about:

Keep the Faith
Ana Tejano

Release date: July 31, 2016

As a community development worker, Faith was quite familiar with heartbreak and recovery after all the time she spent on disaster relief missions. So when her five-year relationship ends right before she left for a mission trip to a typhoon-stricken town in Iloilo, she tries not to make a big deal out of it. How can she be broken up about a breakup when she’s with people who literally lost everything?

But now that she’s back, all Faith wants is for her life to go back to normal and have people stop looking at her with pity. Never mind that she still has a lot of questions about the breakup, or that she feels a tiny ache every time her ex comes up in conversations. She’s okay now, and happily distracted by Nico Tamayo, the attractive new guy at work.

With new possibilities in the horizon, Faith thinks she is well on her way to moving on. But when her past comes calling back to her, will all the good things in her present be enough to keep her on the path? Or will she finally learn that there was more to heartbreak and recovery than what she knows?

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Click on the Continue Reading button for the interview. ^_^

Cover Reveal, Personal

Cover Reveal: Waiting in the Wings by Tara Frejas

February 7, 2017 No Comments

You know that feeling when you’re like… working with a super tight schedule but everything is still slowly falling into place and it’s just awesome? YUP, that’s how I’m feeling right now, because YAY–it’s finally cover reveal day for my latest book, Waiting in the Wings! (In case you missed it, here’s the book’s backstory. ^_^)

And without further ado…

Interviews, The Writing Community

Design Talk: Book Cover Edition feat. Miles Tan

February 6, 2017 No Comments

I waited about a month more to be able to post this edition of Design Talk because I wanted it to go hand-in-hand with tomorrow’s big reveal. Yes! Tomorrow’s the cover reveal for my latest release, Waiting in the Wings, and it’s simple yet gorgeous cover was designed by fellow author and artist Miles Tan.

My first “encounter” with Miles was back in 2015, when I picked her book, Finding X, as one of the requisite three #romanceclass books I should read before entering Mina V. Esguerra’s #SparkNA workshop. I enjoyed it a lot I even recited nakakakilig passages of the book to my friends Chi, Kush, and Rix while reading it one afternoon in San Pablo City. Months later, I met Miles at The Study by Enderun, where we were treated to the very first live reading of some #romanceclass books, courtesy of the OG, Gio Gahol and Rachel Coates.

It wasn’t until much later that I learned that apart from being an author, Miles was also a graphics designer. And when author Ana Tejano revealed her cover for Keep the Faith last year, I knew I had to get a Miles Tan cover for myself someday. And I did. ^_^

But that is a post for tomorrow. Today (or tonight, more like), here’s my interview with Miles. <3

Events, The Writing Community

See you at the Ayala Museum!

February 5, 2017 No Comments

bitter x sweet books by tara frejas — Limited copies of Paper Planes Back Home, The “Forget You” Brew, Scandalized, and Settle the Score / Hustle Play will be available at the #romanceclass event at the Ayala Museum next Saturday, February 11.

We have less than a week to go before #romanceclass’ event at the Ayala Museum, and this is me inviting you all again to come join the fun! Here’s a list of what to expect: