PH Blog Tour: Si Janus Sílang at ang Labanáng Manananggal-Mambabarang by Edgar Calabia Samar, Illustrated by Mervin Malonzo (Janus Silang #2)

When you are out of wits and pieces of your heart are adrift, are you brave enough to visit the same space that led you astray? This is the same question I have played in my mind over and over again after I read Si Janus Sílang at ang Tiyanak ng Tábon last month. I dillydallied…

INT’L BLOG TOUR: Song of the Crimson Flower by Julie C. Dao

Song of the Crimson Flower centers two souls with love forlorn and bound by a curse. The maiden Lan who has been devoted most of her life to becoming the perfect bride to her childhood love Tam who eventually deserted her to be free from filial. Physician apprentice Bao, who confessed his true intentions for…

INT’L BLOG TOUR: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

To the ones who seek and those who find – continue exploring. This is for you. Tales lurk in a space somewhere deep. Was it a library, cavern, gilded ballroom, castle or the dark woods? Or are they all in someone else’s mind where all the pieces were molded together and the whole obscures, transforms…

The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted by Conor Grennan

The world is safe not because we are able to keep it safe. Shhhhhhh… it’s top secret. Do you possess a unique gift? You might just be recruited! It is not a secret that I love middle-grade stories. I just have not outgrown the child in me and I keep searching for stories that bring…

Tula: Bato-Balani

Paalam na mga huling talulot ng nakaliligalig na nakaraan. Pilit ko mang iwinawaksi ang mga nota mula sa awiting dulot ng kadilimang nakamamanhid ay 'di pa rin nagmamaliw ang pagtangis ng tinig na sadya nitong sinisikil. Anong hirap ang 'di maibulalas mga panaghoy ng damdaming nahirati; sumasabay sa mahabang prusisyon ng kamatayan. Bawat sakit ng…

The Shrike and the Shadows: First Chapter Sneak Peak

As we celebrate Mabon, let us also welcome a first chapter sneak peak from authors Chantal Gadoury and A.M. Wright of their most recent collaboration titled The Shrike and the Shadows. I am thrilled to share this dark and twisty tale so here we go!!! Shrike [shrahyk] : any of numerous predaceous oscine birds of the…

After Lambana by Eliza Victoria Illustr. Mervin Malonzo

Following the events that brought about the realm of Lambana sealing shut and the Magic Prohibition Law enacted, a strange phenomenon surfaces. Humans became bearers of a life and its eventual blooming brings death in its wake. Conrad finds his heart in trouble and the only way to be saved is to put his life…