Teaser Tuesday with Basho's Haiku. Selected Poems of Matsuo Basho

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

 

Here's my teaser from Basho's Haiku. Selected Poems of Matsuo Basho (translated by David Landis Barnhill):

I spent a number of days in Awazu, where there was a man who loved the tea ceremony. He gathered chrysantheum flowers from a nearby beach and invited me to tea.
 

a butterfly too comes
to sip the vinegar:
chrysanthemum salad

You can stop by Amazon and download one of my haiku chapbooks for free: 17 Syllables: Of Love and Life.

Express Yourself

Express yourself is a fun, weekly meme hosted by Dani and Jackie to help bloggers learn more about each other (and maybe ourselves).

The question this week is: "Which book/movie you wished you lived in?"

A tough one, but by far, "Pride and Prejudice" for both the movie(2005) and the book.

Other choices for BOOKS:

The Vampire Academy world

 

Mortal Instruments world

 

(I'm not big on reality, I'm sure you can tell)

Other choices in MOVIES:

Pirates of the Caribbean world

 

Stardust 

 

In time

 

Tomorrow, August 13th till Thursday 15th, my haiku chapbook 17 Syllables: Of Love And Life will be free on Amazon. 

Six Word Saturday

Enjoying my coffee under August sun

I'm one of those persons who can't start the day without coffee - it's more than a ritual, it's my first great moment of the day. 

And since today I'm not working on my usual stuff, but to the outline that I started yesterday (3.5 K in one day - yay!) though I was planning to take a break this weekend, I'll need at least a double dose of coffee to finish what I started. I think it will go around 8-9 K. I'm exited about it - it has vampires, action and shy love and big mouths - I was smiling the entire time I was writing (I think that's a good sign). 

I've figured the world, the characters, (still thinking about the setting), the timeline (one of my least favorite things) and I've also figured out why I can't finish what I start - that damn voice. All these were brewing inside my mind during the last week or so, and now I caved in and put everything on paper (yeah, paper and pen for outlining). So this new thing is an experiment till now, but works better than what I usually do, so I have high hopes (not that you couldn't tell by all this babbling).

And though I'm not usually sharing what I'm working on, since I'm so so crazy happy with this, I'll share a two line exchange  between the main characters.

"I wish you'd do what I asked you to."

"Well, it's not the magical time of Christmas when wishes come true. And I'm not a genie. I don't do wishes."

 
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Want to play along? All that's necessary to participate is to describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words. For more information, try clicking here. Feel free to explain or not explain. Add an image, a video, a song, nothing. I love seeing what everyone does with their entries.

Have a great Saturday!

Celebrate The Small Things

Celebrate The Small Things is a fun weekly meme hosted by Viklit @ Scribblings of an Aspiring Author. Stop by and visit the other entries.

Here's what I'm celebrating this Friday:

* * * 8012 words this week already but I think I won't have the time to add more during the weekend.

* * * changing the aspect of my my blog and updating some of the social updates.

* * * adding 5% at the already 10% ready of a sideways project that I'll start talking about soon. I'm still trying to decide if I should start a new blog for it.

* * * This week I've had the pleasant surprise to talk to and reconnect with a close friend who's been  in Spain for almost 4 years now.

This is what I'll be celebrating today. I don't think I'll be able to do much writing this weekend, but I hope I'll come back Monday with fresh ideas and enthusiasm. 

I've also decided that from Tuesay13th till Thursday 15th my haiku chapbook 17 Syllables: Of Love And Life goes free on Amazon.

Have a nice weekened, all!

Cover Reveal The Faerie War (Creepy Hollow) By Rachel Morgan and more

The fate of the faerie world is in her hands...

Title: The Faerie War

Series: Creepy Hollow, Book Three

Author: Rachel Morgan

Cover Designer: Morgan Media

Publication Date: Oct 2013

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Find the Creepy Hollow series on Amazon

I'm really happy to have a cover for the final book and can't wait for October to discover the final adventures in the series. The second book ends with a strong, killer cliffhanger so I'm very impatient to get my hands on the last instalment in The Creepy Hollow series. 

What do you think about the cover? My favorite in the series.

What's up Wednesday

What's Up Wednesday is a weekly meme geared toward readers and writers, allowing us to touch base with blog friends and let them know what's up.

What I'm reading. After reading all the available books in The Lux series by Jennifer L Armentrout I'm up to her other series The Covenant. the first book in the series is a novella, Daimon and looks promissing.

What I'm writing. This week is dedicated to writing and I hope that by the end of the week I'll have one of the outlines turned into a first draft of about 17-20 k. I'm already 5 k in the first draft in a single day. *Happy!* 

What's inspiring me right now. Hmmm... Kings of Leon and Ed Sheeran are my company when writing. 

What else I've been up to. After a movie marathon with friends last week I'm now thinking I should take some time to visit one of my sisters.

Teaser Tuesday with Obsession By Jennifer L Armentrout

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here's my teaser from Obsession written by Jennifer L. Armentrout: 

The fingers under my chin drifted up, spreading across my cheek. I held still. His gaze dropped to my mouth and then farther down, his stare so intense it felt like a caress.
His lips slipped into a smile that did nothing to ease the stark lust in his face. “Oh, Serena, you really have no idea of what kind of shit you’ve stepped in.”

I loved the book! And the cover is amazing!

Celebrate The Small Things

Celebrate the small things is the fun weekly meme hosted by Viklit @ Scribblings of an Aspiring Author.

This was a busy and productive week for me, so I have reasons to celebrate, entering this hop. So, today I'm celebrating:

* * * writing from the beginning till end of 2 outlines: one of a short story (around 7-10  K) and one of anovella (around 25 K)

* * * starting a project I thought about for a long time and kept putting off. Now I'm already 10% done which is surprisingly fast. Let's hope it will keep progressing just as fast.

* * * my return to the social media.

* * * the return of something that resembles (vaguely) with calm and normalcy.

As for today, I intend to go through all my social profiles and update them. Starting with the blog.

Have a fun weekend!