like nobody’s watching – Tara Tries To Write

It’s Pio Season!

August 2, 2025 No Comments

Hey guys, it’s Leo Season…but also PIO SEASON!

Have you met my sweet, charming, flirtatious boy Pio Alvez? I heard he’s quite the ladies’ man, and he captures hearts just like that. Well, here’s your chance to meet him! Like Nobody’s Watching is on sale on Amazon for the whole month of August!

It’s all fun and games until someone catches feelings.

If there’s something Pio Alvez is good at, it’s pretending to be someone he’s not. On stage and on-screen, the actor has mastered the art of becoming the characters he plays, and his new role should be no different. After all, how difficult would it be to pretend to be smitten with a beautiful, intelligent go-getter like Audrey Alonzo?

Perhaps it’s more difficult pretending not to be.

Get the book here.

I’m also uploading a chapter a day on Wattpad so you’re going to be able to read it there for free. Check it out here.

The $1.99 promo and free version on Wattpad will be up until August 31, 2025.

Happy reading!

Movies, The Writing Community

Pinoy Movie x Book Match: Till There Was You

January 14, 2020 No Comments

Pinoy Movie x Book Match is back for the new year! And hey, faux relationship trope fans…this one is for you! ^_^ My first Pinoy Movie x Book Match for 2020 features the Piolo Pascual-Judy Ann Santos film Till There Was You.

Personal, Travel

Places to See: Ili-Likha Artists Village, Baguio City

January 2, 2020 No Comments

I first read about Ili-likha Artists Village in 2016, while I was poking around the Internet for Baguio City finds. You see, I’ve been coming back to Baguio for summer and Christmas vacations since the late 1990s, and I’ve had my fill of horseback rides, bike rides, and visits to the usual tourists spots my parents would bring us to. So for the past several years, I was happy to just lounge around at our home in Kias, watching movies or reading books while enjoying the cool Baguio air.

Projects, The Writing Community

#RomanceClass Reader Take Three | Meet-Cute Edition

July 22, 2018 No Comments

Welcome to the #RomanceClass Take Three Project, where I give #romanceclass readers and authors a monthly prompt/question and ask them to list down and briefly discuss their top three answers. This July, we had a pop-up event at Pegi Waffles, San Juan that focused on meet-cutes — AKA that thing where the MC and LI meet for the first time and give you your first dose of feels — and I thought what better way to kick off this project than to talk about just that!

For this first Take Three Project post, three avid readers tell us their three favorite #romanceclass meet-cutes. Check in and see if they’re your favorites too! (In case you haven’t yet read the books being mentioned, I’ve included links so you can check them out on our website: romanceclassbooks.com.)

Giveaway, Personal, The Writing Community

Have Yourself a Merry Little FREE Book~

November 27, 2017 No Comments

I thought a lot about what ~authorly thing I can do for Christmas that’s not a giveaway (because I think I might have done too many this year already) and came up with this–a weekly ebook freebie!