tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45469627049847333432024-03-19T13:35:17.010-07:00Life's Lessons Are GiftsNotes on the wall...Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-65768456515942187652015-04-08T23:27:00.000-07:002015-04-08T23:36:43.259-07:00Blood Witch 1: The Witchling (teaser and excerpt) - Noelle ArroyoHi, readers!
Here's a new series from me. I've already sent the draft of the first book to the editors. My fingers are crossed, hope it'll get approved!
(***Please take note that this is only a draft. It might change, depending on the editors and whatever is needed on revision. But... ENJOY!)
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THE WITCHLING
(Blood Witch 1)
Noelle Arroyo
Teaser:Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-14508207532058287172013-10-13T12:37:00.001-07:002013-10-13T12:50:22.588-07:00Southern Vampire Series and Other Favorites
I have been absolutely enthralled by series books my whole reading life. There was Robert Ludlum's Bourne Trilogy, and then Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles Series, and then a number of others more before J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series, then Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga, Anne Bishop's Black Jewels Trilogy (and following books), and then Richelle Mead's Succubus Blues and Vampire Academy.Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-8602662641845927562012-09-02T10:43:00.001-07:002012-09-02T10:43:59.169-07:00Lords of the Shadows 1 - Delusions (In Writing)I've already submitted this as a regular romance novel at PHR. Unfortunately, the reader found a little something for me to clarify so it as given back. It should have been easy to revise it and send it back, especially that we always needed the money, since all my kids are going to school now. Kaso, hindi matahimik ang kaluluwa kasi. When I started this story I really wanted it to be of Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-57911700875637716412012-09-01T23:47:00.001-07:002012-09-01T23:47:17.718-07:00Excerpt: Pag-ibig Ba'y Kristal for PHR
Chapter ONE
MUMUKAT-MUKAT NA NAGISING si Carlotta nang umagang iyon. Nang maalala kung saan siya nakatakdang tumungo, napaungol siya at nagtakip muli ng unan sa kanyang mukha. Pero mataas na ang sikat ng araw at bumangon siya saka pumasok sa banyo para maligo.
Habang naliligo ay dismaya niyang iniisip ang mangyayari sa kanyang araw…
Uuwi siya sa Laguna para um-attend sa Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-88581321404505968652012-08-31T15:30:00.001-07:002012-08-31T15:30:37.980-07:00Life's Lessons Are Gifts: Rainy Day Food TripsLife's Lessons Are Gifts: Rainy Day Food TripsDream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-16138779822007478642012-08-31T15:27:00.001-07:002012-08-31T15:28:27.651-07:00Rainy Day Food Trips
Been working since three a.m. and its raining! I know I want to eat soon and since I got a little of my salary last night from oDesk I plan on going to the market early to buy something that could sustain me for a whole day of writing--yeah, I know. Assignments. Hoping to squeeze in a chapter or two to a Gems imprint planned manuscript.
Coincidence, coincidence. Researching for something myDream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-62802784610379507452012-08-18T14:53:00.003-07:002012-08-18T14:53:18.970-07:00Notes on the Wall: Future TitlesThis is a note to myself--I have GOT to finish these before I turn 40!
Lords of the Shadows: Bloodlines
1. Delusion
2. Facade
3. Deception
4. Illusion
Fantasy/Supernatural:
Lords of the Night: Succubus/Incubus/Vampires
1. Afflicted
2. Menaced
3. Wretched
4. Tormented
5. Cursed
6. Damned
Mystic Shadows Series: Witches
1. Witching Shadow (Jade)
2. Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-1478019939947855812012-07-25T20:10:00.001-07:002012-08-18T13:44:09.985-07:00The Joys of ReadingI've always been a story addict. Loved fantasy when I was a kid. They're not always books. There's drama on radio, when I was little and I was looking over my kid brother while Mama worked in the kitchen--about twin brothers born with wings, the evil one looked like an angel while the good one looked like a demon, and people who judged what they see (which is kind of real worldly), and good Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-10477105393174722052012-07-25T17:35:00.001-07:002012-08-18T13:44:58.319-07:00A Lesson About Burn Outs: they pass if you'll get out of its way =)More than five years ago, after a few years of basking in a "no rejection" zone, I suddenly received rejection feedbacks for two manuscripts I passed. Back to back. The worse of it is... I believed what's written there. They were particularly harsh because that was a time when they do pass harsh, personal-smelling, gritty, cruel, evil rejection feedbacks. Like you haven't written anything good atDream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-26998418179409847702012-07-25T16:51:00.002-07:002012-07-25T16:52:10.457-07:00A Thorn That Always Pricks
Ghaahhh!!!
You know when you're helping with you kid's assignment, and it's for Makabayan, and you see there a cleaned up/mocked up version of why Europeans sent expeditions to uncharted territory, and historians say there that they are seeking new discoveries or completing maps or something like that as if that's the only reason for it? And you wish you can just tear those pages off and to Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-30504517973849400742012-07-25T16:31:00.001-07:002012-07-25T16:31:12.946-07:00Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
This book is a page-turner, gripping,
heart-wrenching, and thought provoking. Jenna Blum is one of a few writers starting to brave the
front of using a German perspective of the Holocaust. There are harrowing
scenes in the book but if you have read other books about World War II or has watched Steven Spielberg's movie,
Schindler's List , these scenes will not
Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-38691943754055596402012-07-10T18:52:00.004-07:002012-07-10T18:55:11.161-07:00A Sad Goodbye The Original and Only King of Philippine Comedy
FAREWELL, TITO DOLPHY. YOU'VE BEEN A PART OF OUR LIVES AND YOUR MEMORY OF LAUGHTER, SINCERITY, SERENITY AND HUMILITY WILL LIVE ON. YOU ARE LOVED BY MILLIONS. REST WELL.
RODOLFO VERA QUIZON, Sr.
July 25, 1928 - July 10, 2012
He is Beloved "Dolphy" to the Filipinos whose lives he has made happy for a long time.
It's been a comfort for my generation to have grown up watching Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-92149788262643182202012-04-03T00:41:00.000-07:002012-04-03T00:55:31.448-07:00Review: Every Last One by Anne Quindlen
Synopsis:
Mary Beth Latham has built her life around her family, around caring for her three teenage children and preserving the rituals of their daily life. When one of her sons becomes depressed, Mary Beth focuses on him, only to be blindsided by a shocking act of violence. What happens afterward is a testament to the power of a woman’s love and determination, and to the invisible lines ofDream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-89585077046409189172012-03-08T20:19:00.001-08:002015-04-09T14:35:14.514-07:00Filipinos Are Worth Dying For, and Here's Why
Why do we have legitimate heroes who had willingly walked to their deaths--tied or not--for the Filipinos?
Rizal's last walk resulted to a legacy of courage, dignity, and grace. Bonifacio led a life of constant war for Philippine autonomy. He was Rizal's opposite in the style of fighting, but they died for the same cause -- a leviathan Rizal had accepted could not be killed by the tabak but byDream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-45034227098817549092012-02-29T12:38:00.000-08:002012-02-29T12:38:28.252-08:00Nicholas and Alexandra: the Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Not the last book that I've read. The last was Frostbite of Vampire Academy. But this still haunts me. Remember Princess Anastasia? It's a sad, sad story. Actually, this is a history book, narrative and "novel" like in a way that only Robert K. Massie can manage. If you don't know about the Romanov Dynasty, well, the last family that held Russian monarchy came from the Romanov Dynasty. Yes-Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-28021936685119076942012-02-26T02:57:00.001-08:002012-02-29T13:03:08.427-08:0011/22/63 by Stephen King
Synopsis from goodreads.com:
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed forever.
If you had the chance to change the course of history, would you? Would the consequences be worth it?
Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-75996371696083757972012-02-17T10:50:00.000-08:002012-04-03T01:11:56.329-07:00Vampire Academy 1 - Vampire Academy - by Richelle Mead
St. Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school–-it's a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but now they're being dragged back to St. Vladimir's–the very place where they're most in danger. Rose and Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-41382604055207528002012-02-17T08:01:00.000-08:002012-02-17T10:57:06.897-08:00Out of Eden
Teaser:
Hindi pa man personal na nagkikilala, matagal nang inis si Stelle kay Andrew—ang binatang apo ng mabait na kaibigan niyang si Lola Mariz. Sa tingin kasi niya ay pinapabayaan nito ang abuela. Laging nangangako ang binata na dadalawin ang matanda, pero hindi natutuloy iyon.
Sa wakas ay nakilala niya ito. She never thought he was so handsome. Pero nadagdagan ang inis niya rito dahil sa Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-32432577875981426802012-01-31T01:14:00.000-08:002012-02-26T00:00:13.999-08:00What We Get From Life, We Give BackLike water from Earth that turns to gas and floats up in the heavens as clouds, they go back to earth as rain. Everything we take from life goes back. What we learn from experiences, from pain, from happiness, from relationships, from life in general, goes back in million ways. As an artist, it becomes more obvious. This becomes a process. What I get from my life is what I get to write in paper. Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-9723548343336418192012-01-31T01:09:00.000-08:002012-01-31T02:34:36.450-08:00From This Night to Forever
FROM THIS NIGHT TO FOREVER
By Noelle Arroyo
Matagal nang kilala ni Arianna si Enrique pero ni sa hinagap ay hindi niya pinangarap na ito ang lalaking aangkin sa kanya isang gabing nasa gipit siyang sitwasyon. Ang inasahan niya ay impiyerno, hindi langit, sa mga bisig nito. At nang iwan na niya ito, tila may iniwan din siyang parte ng kanyang puso na ito lamang ang makapagbabalik.Hindi Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-74670584001930104882012-01-13T17:45:00.000-08:002012-01-13T17:45:16.248-08:00Ikaw Lamang - Precious Hearts Romances
"If you stop believing in me, I will not have anything else to hope for. Importante sa 'kin that you believe in me. At this point in my life, ikaw lamang ang importante..."
Alam ni Belle na imposibleng umibig sa kanya ang isang tulad ni Cedric Montepiedad. Guwapo ito, mayaman, overachiever, at anak ng may-ari ng hacienda sa kanilang lugar; samantalang siya ay isang simpleng barrio Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-59051501353663901632012-01-13T16:42:00.000-08:002012-04-03T01:32:14.621-07:00What You Mean to Me - Precious Hearts Romances
“Hindi ko pa rin alam kung ano’ng ginawa ko to deserve you, pero pagod na ako sa kakaisip at kakatanong. Mahal kita… `Yon lang ang alam ko.”
Nang gabing magpunta si Anne sa bar ng kaibigan niya para sakanyang blind date ay desidido na siya sa plano niya—she would seduce her date hanggang sa may mamagitan sa kanila. Dahil gusto niyang magkaanak, iyon lamang.
Pero sa huling Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-72305767933831259632012-01-09T08:40:00.000-08:002012-01-09T08:41:59.468-08:00Six Kids and Twins
I have twins. I'm a mother of six already when I got my twins. The sixth is in the second grade and the first in college and suddenly, I'm pregnant with twins. Well, I know that I have a pair of twin aunts and about a pair of twin cousins, too. But I already have six adorable, noisy, boisterous, pasaway kids. Twins. Beautiful, elegant, both-cheek-dimpled, bubbly beautiful, beautiful twins. Who Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-78067672168474790932011-12-29T12:29:00.000-08:002012-04-03T01:28:19.906-07:00FAITH WOULD SUFFICE
wallpaper4god.com
There was a man who seemed to be in more than a bit of a fix for a long time now. He's got a mean supervisor at work, but it was the work he really wanted so he stayed. His wife got sick with diabetes at such a young age and the medical bills started to pile up. His children were doing good in school, but he has to find a school that's not so expensive because later in Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546962704984733343.post-46881744188903208452011-12-27T15:21:00.000-08:002011-12-29T14:41:57.416-08:00I Sooo Miss Buffy!
screenrant.com
"I guess I was kind of new to being around humans before but now I've seen a lot more... gotten to know people, see what they're capable of and I guess I just realized how amazingly screwed up they all are I mean,really, really screwed up in a monumental fashion."
"Oh."
"I mean, they have no purpose that unites them so they just drift around, blundering through life Dream eReads Collectionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00033410025984180492noreply@blogger.com0