Princess Creates the Thing

Idk if I'll ever get the hang of blogging on the regular; but since it's the middle of 2018, I might as well spring one up amidst all the ucky-mucky news cycle of the past 7 months. Looking at my 2018 writing goals from my last post, I'm proud to be accomplishing 2 of the 4: Re-worked my NING SANTOS WIP and am 11k into drafting, which isn't technically a lot...but it reads a lot better than what I had reworked back in January. Completed and surpassed my 2018 Goodreads Reading Challenge!!! Set myself up for 6 books and ended up reading 8: 5 Middle Grade books by Asian American authors 1 YA book by an Asian American author 2 poetry collections by Asian American poets. Currently on my 9th read: Nightbooks by J.A. White , my only non-POC/non-APIA authored read so far. Current poetry WIPs aren't quite yet ready for submitting, but I do have a forthcoming poem publication this year in Hay(na)ku Anthology #15  (they'll be having a book launch in Septembe...

Long time, no post. I really should figure out at least a semi-consistent schedule. Anyways, the past 3.1 years (translation: Nov. 2016-Jan. 2018) have been a big deal to me, having finally been published on 3 different occasions. It still hasn't hit me that there are readers out there who have gotten and will get to read my stuff, but nonetheless, it's definitely surreal to think about. 2016: A super busy year for me due to being part of the collective collaboration for  Princess Leilani and the Lanu Tree , which is the fifth installment of the GUARDIAN PRINCESS book series where I was also finishing up my internship and transitioning to a staff member for THE GUARDIAN PRINCESS ALLIANCE, A Division of S.T.R.O.N.G. Edutainment (501c3). While I'm not one of the co-authors, I wrote the "songs" for the Leilani story, as well as served as co-editor, researcher, and concept artist. To purchase a hardcover, softcover, or eBook copy of the book (and other GP books)...